What is this?

[mekesterson93]

Anyone know what this is??

 

[Tahoe61]

Hollywood Stunner/Echinopora perhaps.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3354+3416&pcatid=3416

 

[Coastie Reefer]

+1 on Hollywood Stunner

 

[Coastie Reefer]

Seems to grow fairly quickly (1/4" a month) and pretty dang hardy. Aggression issues at times though.

 

[mekesterson93]

Awesome, that's what I thought it was. Thanks for the quick replies, I just bought it! Lol

 

[Coastie Reefer]

I had a tiny sliver of a piece given to me. I think the lfs thought it would never make it. It was about the size of my pinkie fingernail (maybe a little smaller) with a single eye. A month later and it's about the size of a dime with another 2 eyes coming in!

 

[JaimeAdams]

I'm with the rest of the band wagon on the Hollywood Stunner. I would move everything else far away from it. I have a colony that sits by its self in a far corner of the tank. Far from anything that those super long tentacles can get to.

 

[mekesterson93]

Thanks guys. So I'm guessing a frag rack is a no go??

 

[mekesterson93]

Too close to my acan?

 

[Coastie Reefer]

Too close to my acan?

I think that's fine for now, but they can have decent length sweepers.

 

[JaimeAdams]

Too close to my acan?

Do you like your Micromussa?

 

[mekesterson93]

I think that's fine for now, but they can have decent length sweepers.

Okay, thanks. I think the sweepers came out earlier but they might have been fully extended

 

[mekesterson93]

Do you like your Micromussa?

Yes, I like them. They don't look the greatest right now cause I changed the bulbs in my light fixture and they're trying to get acclimated to them.

 

[Coastie Reefer]

Yes, I like them. They don't look the greatest right now cause I changed the bulbs in my light fixture and they're trying to get acclimated to them.

Not sure if that was a real question or more of a, "it's a goner if you leave it there"

 

[JaimeAdams]

Not sure if that was a real question or more of a, "it's a goner if you leave it there"

LOL... Yeah it was more of a Micromussa within 3 inches of a hollywood stunner is a goner type statement.

Honestly it goes like this. The chalice is pretty high up on the whole hierarchy of aggressive corals goes. Sometimes they don't have out their sweeper tentacles, sometimes they are out a little and sometimes they are out allot. Mine lots of times has little short 3 inch sweepers flowing around a good amount of the time it has none out and then sometimes it has 6 inch medusa of doom blowing in the current and anything around it is dead or at least very unhappy about it. I like these types of chalices. They are neat and are easy to grow and pretty darn fast. You just need to heed the warning or be prepared of the possible outcome.

 

[mekesterson93]

Ohhh got ya... do they grow better with more light or less?

 

[JaimeAdams]

Ohhh got ya... do they grow better with more light or less?

All coral grow better with more light until it reaches a saturation point. Also it is relative. A 1,000W Metal Halide is putting out a TON more light than a black box LED or a 2 bulb T-5. I have mine in relatively lower light under 250w metal halides, but have seen it in higher light. The key to any placement is to slowly acclimate a coral. I'm not sure what the break down in through water but in air the light leaving the center of a bulb losses half of it's lumens for every foot traveled. I don't know if light moving through water would lose more energy or not. Even if it doesn't, although I think that it probably would lose more moving through water, if you moved a coral just 12 inches up it would be at least doubling the amount of lumens. The whole key is a very slow acclimation period to higher light.