my valentines day present

[jiffy]

oddly enough i actually got this frag on valentines day, i wanted to see if anybody had a picture of a large colony of these?

valentines day massacre

 

[funeman86]

looks good i know one of the sponsors on here had these on their site not sure which one sorry. Good looking frag nonetheless

 

[gar732]

Its hard to find a good sized colony of almost anything these days. Sweet polyp though, I picked one up a while ago but it died during shipping. I'll have to try again one of these days.

 

[DallasJohn210]

Got my girl a 4" (hard to find that small) F Crosshatch from Pac Island Pacifics.

Nice V paly

 

[jiffy]

thats stinks gar, thanks everyone. but what is a F crosshatch?

 

[dougers31]

So your wife/girlfriend got you this for val. day? Sounds like you have great taste

 

[reefpeeper]

Still one i havent added to my collection

 

[MoneyPit]

Nice frag, wish I had one.

thats stinks gar, thanks everyone. but what is a F crosshatch?

I think it's a female crosshatch triggerfish.

 

[jiffy]

So your wife/girlfriend got you this for val. day? Sounds like you have great taste

lol yea, and thanks.

Still one i havent added to my collection

you definitely should, they just out glow other red zoas..

Nice frag, wish I had one.

I think it's a female crosshatch triggerfish.

i paid 7pp at FAOIS, only 3 frags left!
and that makes sense, thanks.

 

[akabryanhall]

VDM are one of my favorite palys, they get soooo big. I had a mini colony with 30 or so but I lost them to me being Dumas material.

 

[re-fin-away]

For some reason I am not a huge fan of polyps, But the VD is one I really like. If Ievery start a frag tank I want to get one andgrow them out just so I have it.

 

[jiffy]

VDM are one of my favorite palys, they get soooo big. I had a mini colony with 30 or so but I lost them to me being Dumas material.

=[ sorry to hear

 

[subdrive]

Here's my colony.

 

[jiffy]

Here's my colony.

wow those are sweet! are they slow growers?

 

[Badjuujuu]

Nice colony! Mine have grown fast for me so far.

 

[Bugg_zy]

I really dig VDM's. I did own a few but melted a few weeks after I got them :cry: Nice looking patch you have there!

 

[subdrive]

They grow fast, and they melted on me FAST!!

 

[jiffy]

im glad im gettin my new LED setup either today or 2morrow because im tired of seeing random selections of my zoas melting away.. but i hope mine dont melt on me anyways.. =/

 

[ctxmonitor]

They grow fast, and they melted on me FAST!!

Do you know why your melted on you? how long you had it and how many polyps you started with?

Here is frag, not a colony yet...

 

[subdrive]

I got mine from LFS. It had 30-40 palys. I got it for $35 for the whole thing I think.
It was doing great, growing well.
I tried fragging 2-3 paly that was easy to frag, but ended up chotting the whole thing into 3-5 paly frags. I guess it didnt like being chopped all at once.
next day when I looked into the tank, 10 plugs with nothing on it but glue with slime.
I think the reason behind it is

1. Wild colony is especially sensitive to tank environment
2. Chopping up the thing was a bad idea.