FarmerTy's 215-gallon SPS Tank

FarmerTy · Mar 23, 2020

panic said:
I did. That and Jumanji, Crackjuice, and Psycho Orange. I'm just about ready to put them in the display. It's so hard to keep my hands out of the tanks with all of this stay at home stuff going on.

Oohhh, I want to see!

Tell me about it. I work from home normally!

FarmerTy · Mar 23, 2020

Talk a walk with me into the blue side...

JF Sunday Driver

LRO Lunar Lemonade

RR Red Bull

FarmerTy · Mar 24, 2020

TSA Dragonfruit

TSA Purple Haze

RR Mardi Gras

Jimbo662 · Mar 24, 2020

Looks like someone is getting to spend some extra time with his reef babies! ;-)

TexAgReefer · Mar 24, 2020

FarmerTy said:
TSA Dragonfruit

TSA Purple Haze

RR Mardi Gras

That Dragonfruit tho!!!

FarmerTy · Mar 24, 2020

Jimbo662 said:
Looks like someone is getting to spend some extra time with his reef babies! ;-)

I wish! I snap 50 pics at a time and then never see them again. With no contact during the pandemic means I’m full-time Mr. Mom to a new infant and toddler.

I post during my sanity breaks. If you pull the first letter off every sentence... it spells... help me!

FarmerTy · Mar 24, 2020

TexAgReefer said:
That Dragonfruit tho!!!

I know, right? It’s got this metallic look in real life to it.

aabjones888 · Mar 24, 2020

Heyyy, I’m a mr mom right now too

panic · Mar 24, 2020

FarmerTy said:
Oohhh, I want to see!

Tell me about it. I work from home normally!

I can’t take pics like you Ty, bet here they are

FarmerTy · Mar 24, 2020

panic said:
I can’t take pics like you Ty, bet here they are

Those are pretty good size pieces too. What’s your favorite of the bunch?

panic · Mar 24, 2020

FarmerTy said:
Those are pretty good size pieces too. What’s your favorite of the bunch?

Oh, Jumanji for sure. It's Smurf blue and the polyps are two-toned. I've never seen anything like it. Now the polyps on the Brainfreeze are completely bipolar - red on one side and florescent yellow on the other side. Crackjuice is cool, not really grafting colors for me yet. The Psycho Orange is more of a furry green... I built a lil photo booth out of black acrylic last week so I'm going to try to figure out the custom white balance on my old skool Canon 5d and take accurate pics without having to LR the heck out of them

nbd13 · Mar 25, 2020

panic said:
Oh, Jumanji for sure. It's Smurf blue and the polyps are two-toned. I've never seen anything like it. Now the polyps on the Brainfreeze are completely bipolar - red on one side and florescent yellow on the other side. Crackjuice is cool, not really grafting colors for me yet. The Psycho Orange is more of a furry green... I built a lil photo booth out of black acrylic last week so I'm going to try to figure out the custom white balance on my old skool Canon 5d and take accurate pics without having to LR the heck out of them

Very nice corals, where did you get Jumanji from?

What species do we think it is?

Thanks.

FarmerTy · Mar 25, 2020

panic said:
Oh, Jumanji for sure. It's Smurf blue and the polyps are two-toned. I've never seen anything like it. Now the polyps on the Brainfreeze are completely bipolar - red on one side and florescent yellow on the other side. Crackjuice is cool, not really grafting colors for me yet. The Psycho Orange is more of a furry green... I built a lil photo booth out of black acrylic last week so I'm going to try to figure out the custom white balance on my old skool Canon 5d and take accurate pics without having to LR the heck out of them

Sounds like I’ll have to get the Jumanji! Thanks for the assessment!

That photo booth sounds like a great idea!

panic · Mar 25, 2020

nbd13 said:
Very nice corals, where did you get Jumanji from?

What species do we think it is?

Thanks.

BkChem - I'm not sure what the species is. I'll ask him for ya

Edit: with his permission to share it, he says this, and I forwarded your thread to him Ty in case he want to chime in:

That’s been a really hard one to try to figure out. I’ve been discussing this with divers, friends and a few others for quite some time.
What what we’ve deducted, it’s a deeper water tenuis.

FarmerTy · Mar 25, 2020

panic said:
BkChem - I'm not sure what the species is. I'll ask him for ya

Edit: with his permission to share it, he says this, and I forwarded your thread to him Ty in case he want to chime in:

That’s been a really hard one to try to figure out. I’ve been discussing this with divers, friends and a few others for quite some time.
What what we’ve deducted, it’s a deeper water tenuis.

Speciosa was my guess but who knows.

FarmerTy · Mar 25, 2020

Bkchem Brain Freeze

melanotaenia · Mar 25, 2020

Wow! That Bkchem Brain Freeze is awesome.

Sweet Reef Corals · Mar 25, 2020

FarmerTy said:
Bkchem Brain Freeze

So beautiful! I am curious why you think it’s a Speciosa Ty. Is this as delicate as a Red dragon? It sure looks more sturdy, but it’s hard to tell from pics.
Panic relayed that it might be a deeper water Acro but you mentioned having it in 425 PAR. That would not correlate to a deep water Acro....am I missing something? Lol

FarmerTy · Mar 25, 2020

SweetReefOH said:
So beautiful! I am curious why you think it’s a Speciosa Ty. Is this as delicate as a Red dragon? It sure looks more sturdy, but it’s hard to tell from pics.
Panic relayed that it might be a deeper water Acro but you mentioned having it in 425 PAR. That would not correlate to a deep water Acro....am I missing something? Lol

I was just throwing a species name out to try to look cool. I have no idea what I’m talking about. But when I looked up some pictures of speciosa... especially the growth pattern in Papua New Guinea, it seemed similar to colonies I’ve seen posted. But really, who knows.

It’s definitely not as delicate as the red dragon. Remember, mine survived arriving at 59 degrees and fragged up to save before it ever even entered my system. All frags made it.

You got me but I was told 425 so that’s what I gave it and it seems perfectly happy.

Sweet Reef Corals · Mar 26, 2020

FarmerTy said:
I was just throwing a species name out to try to look cool. I have no idea what I’m talking about. But when I looked up some pictures of speciosa... especially the growth pattern in Papua New Guinea, it seemed similar to colonies I’ve seen posted. But really, who knows.

It’s definitely not as delicate as the red dragon. Remember, mine survived arriving at 59 degrees and fragged up to save before it ever even entered my system. All frags made it.

You got me but I was told 425 so that’s what I gave it and it seems perfectly happy.

I think you’re on to something. When googling Speciosa, I seen a lot of wild colonies that had a similar growth pattern as the frag. I also read that a lot of Speciosa are found in shallow water. So, I’d say you’re probably spot on!