UCA master bowerbanki

Sea_Monkey · Sep 3, 2020

This thread is for all UCA master bowerbanki, growout, pictures or questions about them. Post any pictures that is UCA master bowerbanki related. Enjoy

I was given an opportunity to own this hot mama, I took it and ran with it. Enjoy

Up close and personal

ReefguyEric · Sep 3, 2020

WOW love bowerbanki’s and this one is incredible nice piece

Sea_Monkey · Sep 3, 2020

Uca next to my snipersps

Magixxx · Sep 3, 2020

Dat guy has the hottest corals i know of..

Sea_Monkey · Sep 3, 2020

Magixxx said:
Dat guy has the hottest corals i know of..

ha! Negative

Sea_Monkey · Sep 4, 2020

UCA master with the crew, top left is UV top right is Snipersps.

Magixxx · Sep 4, 2020

Beautiful uv dat... !! Heres a closeup shot on mines ..

Sea_Monkey · Sep 4, 2020

Magixxx said:
Beautiful uv dat... !! Heres a closeup shot on mines ..

Thanks good sir, Very nice!

Sea_Monkey · Sep 6, 2020

Gotta do a side by side comparison before I frag both to backup/growout

UV banki next to UCA masterbanki

Sea_Monkey · Sep 8, 2020

Cut cut cut, gotta back her up.

Magixxx · Sep 8, 2020

That piece must be heading to my hillae empire

Phenom · Sep 22, 2020

Ri

Sea_Monkey said:
Gotta do a side by side comparison before I frag both to backup/growout

UV banki next to UCA masterbanki

UCA one is crazy bro

knightnsd · Sep 29, 2020

I am hoping someone can shed some light on the growth of bowers and the odd genetics they seem to show in coloring. I cut this bower from another piece's center months ago that had every color in it and was hoping it would make some similar colored heads. Instead, the red side has generated baby red heads with some of the mother color's yellow/green and the blue and green side of the of the mother is generating those colors in the new heads making me wonder if only the new growth that eventually grows in between the two colors of the mother would end up colored out as the mother is or if I will get any more of the perfect 50/50 heads I was hoping to isolate and grow. I did not expect a line separating the colors as the offspring grow out from the mother.

Thoughts??

code4 · Sep 29, 2020

This thread came at a perfect time for me. I noticed my first one recently. And was wondering how large do these get? Do they propagate like zoas? Love all the photos. Thanks all of you for sharing.

Shelley

code4 · Sep 29, 2020

Why would you guys frag them if they will just grow out more little ones? Won't you ruin the one you frag? Or will it grow back as nice as it was before you cut it in half?

Sea_Monkey · Sep 29, 2020

knightnsd said:
I am hoping someone can shed some light on the growth of bowers and the odd genetics they seem to show in coloring. I cut this bower from another piece's center months ago that had every color in it and was hoping it would make some similar colored heads. Instead, the red side has generated baby red heads with some of the mother color's yellow/green and the blue and green side of the of the mother is generating those colors in the new heads making me wonder if only the new growth that eventually grows in between the two colors of the mother would end up colored out as the mother is or if I will get any more of the perfect 50/50 heads I was hoping to isolate and grow. I did not expect a line separating the colors as the offspring grow out from the mother.

Thoughts??

Where ever the babies pop up at, they will carry that color(s). If babies pop up on red section, it will be mainly red, on green, it’ll be mainly green. Or if it pop up right where the red and green meet, it’ll be a half and half baby. Occasionally a baby would throw out different colors even if it pop up on a solid color section. Growth rate for me isn’t bad, in a year I would get about 3-5 babies on each “mama” head.

Sea_Monkey · Sep 29, 2020

code4 said:
Why would you guys frag them if they will just grow out more little ones? Won't you ruin the one you frag? Or will it grow back as nice as it was before you cut it in half?

When something is so rare, you want to gamble and frag it. That way you’ll have two separate frags of a rare coral. Then you send one frag off to a trusted banking system. Or if you have a completely different stand alone system from your other system.

Sea_Monkey · Sep 29, 2020

code4 said:
This thread came at a perfect time for me. I noticed my first one recently. And was wondering how large do these get? Do they propagate like zoas? Love all the photos. Thanks all of you for sharing.

Shelley

they get pretty huge, some of my mama heads is pushing 3” when fully expanded.They encrust andgrow out like any corals, but cutting them is slightly different from Zoas.

knightnsd · Sep 29, 2020

I fragged mine to both isolate the colors and cut the ball shaped colony down so I could frag it for others for sale/trade but had hoped to isolate the best colors but was disappointed a bit . At least now have a lot of frags as well as a better growth rate as you unlock land locked heads from growing since they were surrounded by others and unable to grow.

Sea_Monkey said:
When something is so rare, you want to gamble and frag it. That way you’ll have two separate frags of a rare coral. Then you send one frag off to a trusted banking system. Or if you have a completely different stand alone system from your other system.

knightnsd · Sep 29, 2020

Shelley: Sadly the bowers and the hillaes are pretty slow growers but I do have some decent growers out a few pieces but since they make a substantial skeleton, grow pretty slow even with some of my best growers and of course are a bit tough to frag as they often grow into a ball shape.

code4 said:
This thread came at a perfect time for me. I noticed my first one recently. And was wondering how large do these get? Do they propagate like zoas? Love all the photos. Thanks all of you for sharing.

Shelley