Bay Corals Planet Earth

fab1971 · Nov 5, 2011

I was hoping to hear from any other people that bought this frag and wanted to know how their frag is doing and looking. It's been over 3 months and ours only has two colors and has been looking pretty weak since the beginning (due to a shipping mishap). If anyone owns it and can provide a picture and update, it would really help to determine how to proceed with this frag and get the most out of it. I'm hoping it's a matter of me not growing it correctly (eg. too much light or flow). Thanks in advance, Frank.

Bay corals original colony picture (hope you don't mind Hung).

Our growout frag (green + purple so far)

sexycorals · Nov 5, 2011

i was gonna get that piece but passed up on it.. glad to see u guys picked it up.. did it ever have a red rim? ill try medium flow and low light.

toyencounters · Nov 5, 2011

Good luck Frank!

fab1971 · Nov 5, 2011

Thanks guys. Right now I'm feeling that we should have passed up on it too but I'm still holding out hope. Thank goodness we didn't spend too much on it. No red rim, not even a hint of it. I have it it lower/medium light and flow but the piece is kind of finicky. When it was first delivered it got here after 6pm, very stressed and bleached out but has since started to color up but it's been a very long and painful process. Now I'm not only wondering when it will color up but if it will even survive, givin it's been struggling since day 1.

toyencounters · Nov 5, 2011

Wild chalices sometimes can do some wierd stuff!

toyencounters · Nov 5, 2011

That red rim looks color enhanced by the way!

clowns101 · Nov 5, 2011

That isn't even Hungs original colony picture. That is someone else's picture. Its a nice chalice, but there will never be a red rim...

fab1971 · Nov 5, 2011

clowns101 said:
That isn't even Hungs original colony picture. That is someone else's picture. Its a nice chalice, but there will never be a red rim...

That's what I've been thinking. We've been suckered

Oh well, you live and you learn.

secretreefer · Nov 5, 2011

too bad it doesn't look like the pic you posted and it's health is declining. good luck!

chestnud · Nov 5, 2011

Thats the chalice that I ordered an never received from him....

fab1971 · Nov 5, 2011

chestnud said:
Thats the chalice that I ordered an never received from him....

did you get your money back? If you did then you are lucky.

chestnud · Nov 8, 2011

I did, only because I got my bank involved.

akma · Nov 8, 2011

Are you feeding it? Where in NJ are you?

reefkoi · Nov 8, 2011

IMO that rim isnt going to be red, it just was shaded in that spot and possibly photo enhanced to appear as a red rim thats what I think anyway, looks like an awesome piece though as a colony!!

Emoney · Nov 8, 2011

Buyer beware..Got burnt by this guy also!

fab1971 · Nov 8, 2011

good to hear chestnud! I'm in north bergen, nj and no, this chalice doesn't eat.

akma · Nov 8, 2011

Ah that's not too far. I would take the chalice out into a cup mixed with cyclopeeze and tank water and see how that does. I've had receding chalices that came back by doing that.

lps1212 · Nov 8, 2011

definetly sucks that this wild piece isnt doing so well but like Frank said glad we didnt dish out so much money. I am 1 that isnt big on wild pieces for this exact same reason ohh well live and learn atleast theres about another 60 chalices to make us forget about the bad ones :dribble:

clowns101 · Nov 8, 2011

reefkoi said:
IMO that rim isnt going to be red, it just was shaded in that spot and possibly photo enhanced to appear as a red rim thats what I think anyway, looks like an awesome piece though as a colony!!

Exactly, I have the ORIGINAL, un touched photo and the rim isn't near as red, more brown.