Sweet Reef Corals Eye Candy Thread

[Joe462]

For @Charlie’s Frags viewing pleasure

Jumanji. He has gained his skin health back and I recently had to upgrade his plug as he had over grown the 1 incher. Im confident he will continue to recover and will hopefully shoot a new branch before long so I know he’s fully recovered. This is a game of patience, let me tell you.

Here’s his partner, right beside him... LEGOLAND

And here’s one I recently acquired. Still a ways to get it colored up after shipping/dipping but he’s lookin real good so far!

jumanji is looking great!

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

jumanji is looking great!

Thanks Joe. It’s been slow to recover but we’re getting there. The skin is a bit more greenish compared to the darker blue that it was when I first got it.

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

They’re looking great. You’re getting faster growth than I am with mine. Put me on the waiting list for the Lego land. We can trade when my Gnomeo is ready……sometime in 2025

The only issue I have with the Legoland is the PE. It’s never had the typical PE that most Speciosa have for some reason.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

The only issue I have with the Legoland is the PE. It’s never had the typical PE that most Speciosa have for some reason.

The corallite formation on it is very interesting. Looks like it just has small polyps. They will probably get bigger as it matures. My jumanji polyps look a little different than yours.

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

The corallite formation on it is very interesting. Looks like it just has small polyps. They will probably get bigger as it matures. My jumanji polyps look a little different than yours.

Let’s see your Jumanji. Curious about the differences.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Let’s see your Jumanji. Curious about the differences.

So in the last 6 weeks I have had to replace my lights and my phone. I don’t know if it’s the lights or the phone but I can not seem to take good pics anymore. These are the best I have been able to figure out so far.
Jumanji

Gnomeo is on the bottom

 

[Heabel7]

Sweet acros can’t wait for them to get on your list.

 

[i cant think]

So in the last 6 weeks I have had to replace my lights and my phone. I don’t know if it’s the lights or the phone but I can not seem to take good pics anymore. These are the best I have been able to figure out so far.
Jumanji

Gnomeo is on the bottom

I’ve found phones are often much better at getting fish pictures than coral, if your flow is rather high when taking photos then your phone may not be able to focus properly on the individual polyps.

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

So in the last 6 weeks I have had to replace my lights and my phone. I don’t know if it’s the lights or the phone but I can not seem to take good pics anymore. These are the best I have been able to figure out so far.
Jumanji

Gnomeo is on the bottom

You’re right, your polyps are a bit darker. And your PE is off the chain. But your PE is like that on all your stuff so I’m not surprised lol. Are you getting any encrusting going on? It’s hard to tell from the cam angle.

In the pics, the Gnomeo and your jumanji appear to be the same coral? At least to my eyes anyway

My guess is that my polyps will darken the more it recovers. As I mentioned, the skin is a bit lighter than it was when I got it. Time will tell...

 

[i cant think]

You’re right, your polyps are a bit darker. And your PE is off the chain. But your PE is like that on all your stuff so I’m not surprised lol. Are you getting any encrusting going on? It’s hard to tell from the cam angle.

In the pics, the Gnomeo and your jumanji appear to be the same coral? At least to my eyes anyway

My guess is that my polyps will darken the more it recovers. As I mentioned, the skin is a bit lighter than it was when I got it. Time will tell...

I’m curious, have you ever seen a red/orange Montipora digitata with golden specks on some of its newer polyps?
This is mine that I picked up on Saturday

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

I’m curious, have you ever seen a red/orange Montipora digitata with golden specks on some of its newer polyps?
This is mine that I picked up on Saturday

I can’t say that I’m well versed in Digitata but early in the hobby I had a piece similar to this and I do recall that the newer polyps were a different color than the older polyps, but I can’t remember how

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

You’re right, your polyps are a bit darker. And your PE is off the chain. But your PE is like that on all your stuff so I’m not surprised lol. Are you getting any encrusting going on? It’s hard to tell from the cam angle.

In the pics, the Gnomeo and your jumanji appear to be the same coral? At least to my eyes anyway

My guess is that my polyps will darken the more it recovers. As I mentioned, the skin is a bit lighter than it was when I got it. Time will tell...

Yes they are both encrusting. I mounted them on upside down plugs hoping to new branches quicker. The method paid off nicely on the coral above the Gnomeo. They are both about halfway down the plug stem 9 months in the tank. They are similar but my jumanji is touched greener than the bluer Gnomeo. Really hard to see in these awful pics. I’m really disappointed in this new iPhone 13 pro camera.

gnomeo

jumanji

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

Yes they are both encrusting. I mounted them on upside down plugs hoping to new branches quicker. The method paid off nicely on the coral above the Gnomeo. They are both about halfway down the plug stem 9 months in the tank. They are similar but my jumanji is touched greener than the bluer Gnomeo. Really hard to see in these awful pics. I’m really disappointed in this new iPhone 13 pro camera.

gnomeo

jumanji

Oh ya, crust looks great!

What are you upset with regarding the phone camera? Sharpness, color,zoom?

 

[Acros]

I’m curious, have you ever seen a red/orange Montipora digitata with golden specks on some of its newer polyps?
This is mine that I picked up on Saturday

Check your magnesium. My orange digitata used to have occasional while polyps scattered around it when Mg was ~1200. Bumped it to 1350 and the problem is almost non existent now.

 

[i cant think]

Yes they are both encrusting. I mounted them on upside down plugs hoping to new branches quicker. The method paid off nicely on the coral above the Gnomeo. They are both about halfway down the plug stem 9 months in the tank. They are similar but my jumanji is touched greener than the bluer Gnomeo. Really hard to see in these awful pics. I’m really disappointed in this new iPhone 13 pro camera.

gnomeo

jumanji

Before you mounted them on the upside down frag plugs were they encrusted on the base of the plug? If so, how did you deal with the encrusted part?

 

[i cant think]

Check your magnesium. My orange digitata used to have occasional while polyps scattered around it when Mg was ~1200. Bumped it to 1350 and the problem is almost non existent now.

It’s strange because the LFS (Which has thriving monti digis, and other acros in the same tank) I went to has had this coral for ages and it is a properly gold polyp, although iPhone cameras despise many of the colours we enjoy on coral so they show up more white than usual.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Oh ya, crust looks great!

What are you upset with regarding the phone camera? Sharpness, color,zoom?

Everything really. All of them seem to have a brownish/reddish haze to them and I can’t get some top down pic of some corals at all bc it will not focus. Here’s an old pic with new pic comparison
Old pic
All I had to do was put my brown filter on

New
I have to change my light settings to 18.5k which is much bluer than I like

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Before you mounted them on the upside down frag plugs were they encrusted on the base of the plug? If so, how did you deal with the encrusted part?

I rip or cut everything off the plugs they come in on.

 

[Acros]

It’s strange because the LFS (Which has thriving monti digis, and other acros in the same tank) I went to has had this coral for ages and it is a properly gold polyp, although iPhone cameras despise many of the colours we enjoy on coral so they show up more white than usual.

I am not sure if that coral is supposed to look that way. The one I had was all orange before I got and the change happened in my tank.

 

[i cant think]

I am not sure if that coral is supposed to look that way. The one I had was all orange before I got and the change happened in my tank.

I’ll let it grow out and we’ll see, I know the guy in the LFS was interested in the golden speckles on the polyps the weirdest thing with it is the polyps are all round the edge of the coral so they’ll be newer growth than the deep orange polyps.