New Night Stalker frag

jasonrusso · Feb 1, 2018

I was leaving my local frag guy (basement based) and out of the corner of my eye, I saw this frag and I had to have it. It's called a night stalker. I absolutely love it. It's purple with glowing green polyps.

ludnix · Feb 1, 2018

Is that different than GARF Bonzai? It's very beautiful and good pick!

jasonrusso · Feb 1, 2018

ludnix said:
Is that different than GARF Bonzai? It's very beautiful and good pick!

I wasn't familiar with that so I looked it up. It looks very similar but it doesn't look like it grows with the symmetric acro look. It's just a frag now so time will tell.

BoomCorals · Feb 1, 2018

Yes night stalker is the same as garf bonsai.

Acropora Valida

jasonrusso · Feb 1, 2018

BoomCorals said:
Yes night stalker is the same as garf bonsai.

Cool, so do "designer corals" have different names depending on the seller?

BoomCorals · Feb 1, 2018

jasonrusso said:
Cool, so do "designer corals" have different names depending on the seller?

Yes they can. Not uncommon at all in this hobby.

delv2323 · Feb 1, 2018

This hobby just keeps getting worse!!!

Reefer40b · Feb 2, 2018

Thats a nice coral and all but man you placed him in the middle of a war zone... digi to the left, rainbow stylo to the front and a gsp to the right... those 3 corals all grow very fast. I would remove that gsp from the rock and make it its own island... but that's just me to each there own!

ReefguyEric · Feb 2, 2018

Nice piece but that gsp grows like a weed will take over

jasonrusso · Feb 2, 2018

Reefer40b said:
Thats a nice coral and all but man you placed him in the middle of a war zone... digi to the left, rainbow stylo to the front and a gsp to the right... those 3 corals all grow very fast. I would remove that gsp from the rock and make it its own island... but that's just me to each there own!

The pictures is deceiving. There are 3 rocks there.

Scorpius · Feb 2, 2018

My Garf Bonsai is in my group I consider weed Acropora. Beautiful, but it fends off and nukes my green Montipora Digitata with ease and growths very fast.

jasonrusso · Feb 27, 2018

So my night stalker/bonsai was doing very well up until about a week ago. The frag has pretty much covered the plug and it was growing new polyps. Sometime last week, I noticed that the some of the polyps weren't extending. Last night I noticed that the polyps weren't extending at all.

Last week I started really monitoring my alk and calcium (it has kind of been all over) and I started dosing nitrate. Right now nitrate is at about 4ppm. My LPS and zoas are HUGE since the change. This seems to be the only one that may have been negatively affected. Should I just wait it out? It obviously liked the conditions (light and flow) and that has not changed.