Wild Beauties - My Kind of Blue

[Reef Doc]

Adam over at battlecorals most likely has it but I don't think it is on the site. Here is a pic of a pack that was on R2R...look at #4

 

[jda]

Close, without the same colored body and purple tips and orange polyps. It looks like a plana. Who knows what a colony might look like.

 

[Bdk1786]

I was luck enough to pick this one up for $30. The initial polyps are what attacheda me to it. While it didn't keep the initial "cotton candy" colors, it still turned out beautiful.
1st pic is the day I got it.
2nd under Hydra 26 HDs
3rd under T5s

Another colony morph(right side coral, the left morphed to a dud): under Hydras only.

The morph:

I've had my fair share of duds as well, but I like the gamble.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

I love seeing other guys doing this. I have brought in a lot of wild and mari stuff and had some great luck. I did get in something that resembles a plana with white branches and green polyps with yellow coraline but it was a mariculture probably from bali.
Hopefully I can start a thread on the few I have not seen before and get some feedback.

 

[Klemmetsmo]

I am nearly positive that I got this one from a Australia/Coral Sea order, if that helps. If so, they are collected in very shallow water. I started to do a lot better when I landed them with high intensity daylight lighting (750+ PAR), lots of indirect flow and NSW parameter water with low alk and low N and P... similar to the ocean. I would do mari/aq stuff the same way since they are also shallow. Fiji are going to be shallow most of the time.

Small tanks can be hard. I have about a 150 gallon frag setup for this - I took a 6 foot old-and-scratched Tenecor 200g Bowfront and cut the top half of it off (with a skill saw) and added a 50g sump and a 30g fuge. You have to monitor them every day... they go for weeks without consuming any alk to all of a suddenly depleting your whole tank when they decide to grow... so I have a CaRx ready and running slowly at first, and then ready to crank it up later after adding a bunch of dowflake and baking soda. I feel that this is too small sometimes for more than 10-12 wild colonies.

Absolutely correct! People look at me like I’m crazy when I say I test every day and then fight to keep my levels.! Thanks for posting!

 

[larangcon]

I have done that too in the beginning but I learned the less you do is better as long as you have an indicator as a certain coral not showing or less polyps out, then I test.