I like CHALICES, BIG and ROUND

[watchguy123]

I am addicted to sps but can't resist chalices although most of mine are old school.

 

[Bubbles_B]

those are OG. NIce collection!!!! I'm working on my chalice collection as well...

 

[watchguy123]

 

[watchguy123]

 

[Wesley42079]

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your chalice collection.

 

[watchguy123]

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your chalice collection.

Hey, thank you

 

[watchguy123]

 

[red02]

very nice collection.

 

[larangcon]

Nice Collection man, don't know much about chalice, how long have you been collecting.

 

[Breakin Newz]

Amazing man!!!

 

[watchguy123]

very nice collection.

Nice Collection man, don't know much about chalice, how long have you been collecting.

Thank you. These chalices have been picked up as frags over the last 20 months or so

 

[Jlobes]

right on! nice collection. whats your experience with chalice placement and their neighbors? I see you have many next to each other/touching...is it fair to say that most chalice do not sting each other?? or does that just turn into combat zone at night?!

 

[KLR]

Sweet collection! There is a reason why some of these started the craze in the first place!

 

[watchguy123]

right on! nice collection. whats your experience with chalice placement and their neighbors? I see you have many next to each other/touching...is it fair to say that most chalice do not sting each other?? or does that just turn into combat zone at night?!

Thanks, I have not seen any stinging of chalice to chalice

 

[tapout]

Sick pic dig the one on the left!

 

[Texasnano]

Can we get a FTS

 

[Mrfresh]

I love chalices but have a hard time to keep them

What light do u have and what's ur alk and cal if u don't mind thank you

 

[watchguy123]

I love chalices but have a hard time to keep them

What light do u have and what's ur alk and cal if u don't mind thank you

I run metal halides (3 x 250 watt 20k) and 2 x T5 80 watt actinics. I place the chalices on the bottom third of my tank on rock. My alk is usually around 8 and my calcium around 400-420--I use a calcium reactor which keeps things pretty stable.

where is sd Cali

 

[jcdeng]

what is the bending plate thingy that you put between the chalice and your LR so that the chalice can grow in a smooth shape?

 

[watchguy123]

what is the bending plate thingy that you put between the chalice and your LR so that the chalice can grow in a smooth shape?

It is "D-D aquascape aquarium expoy". I flatten it out after mixing and gently lay it over the rock, leave it for 24 hours to get hard so that it now has the basic shape of the underlying rockscape that it lays on. I then take the chalice frag and glue it with "zap" to the epoxy so that as it grows out it looks like it is growing on the rock. Eventually it covers all the epoxy but then you have to keep lifting the chalice off the rock to make sure it does not grow into the rockscape. I thought that way if I ever fragged my chalices, I could remove them from the tank. Two things I discovered, 1.) I like my chalices and dont want to trim them and 2.) chalices when they get the chance like to adhere to rockscape. I like chalices growing on rockscape and prefer that to laying on the sand (plus my wrasses like to flip anything on the sand)[h=1][/h]