Why aren't stags more popular?

fragit · Sep 20, 2016

I too love stags and have an island that will have a few, and the other island will not have any. I think that they make for a more natural looking mixed sps reef. I will have to check out those Battle Corals Stags. I'm sure I've seen them I've looked at his site a million times as I plan my tank.

hinovak · Sep 20, 2016

If you want to challenge your self a bit, there are a couple Aussie stags that are difficult to grow and require a ton of flow, but it would keep things interesting.

fragit · Sep 20, 2016

hinovak said:
If you want to challenge your self a bit, there are a couple Aussie stags that are difficult to grow and require a ton of flow, but it would keep things interesting.

And where do you find said Aussie Stags?

fragapple · Sep 20, 2016

pro staghorns here i've got maybe 40 staghorns in my system and still going

spspirate · Sep 20, 2016

Beautiful reef. Some of my favorite staghorns are blue tip slimer (a.yongei) and a juicy blue hoki (a.hoeksemai ). Stags are a great way to give a reef scape that fulfilling look.

Graffiti Spot · Sep 21, 2016

Anyone have any blue skimmer pics? That's gotta be the best stag ever but I never see it brought in.

Graffiti Spot · Sep 22, 2016

Blue slimer pics rather... Not skimmer....

Salsa777 · Sep 22, 2016

I just bought a ORA blue voodoo today and it looks awesome. I want a bali green slimer really bad, had one like 10 years ago and it was my favorite coral. If you ever look at those tank of the month or similar type threads/ pages. All of those tanks have some epic stags jutting out of the rockscapes it seems like, they really just add something awesome to a tank. Some acros are incredible up close but from afar they are just whatever, but a 12'' stag that is neon green or deep royal blue is a sight to see.

presus22 · Sep 22, 2016

Just picked up a ora stuber frag at the local pet store for free. One of their customers broke down their tank and gave them a football size colony they had no room for it so I got a freebie.

ReefBum · Sep 23, 2016

Count me in as a big fan of stags. Here is one of my favorites from my prior tank. Luckily I was able to find another frag of it for my new tank

fragit · Sep 23, 2016

ReefBum said:
Count me in as a big fan of stags. Here is one of my favorites from my prior tank. Luckily I was able to find another frag of it for my new tank

What is this stag? Love it!!!

ReefBum · Sep 23, 2016

fragit said:
What is this stag? Love it!!!

It doesn't have one......how about The ReefBum Aquaman Stag!!

fragit · Sep 23, 2016

ReefBum said:
It doesn't have one......how about The ReefBum Aquaman Stag!!

That's a pretty good name... Where can I get a piece?

ReefBum · Sep 23, 2016

I can probably hook you up in about 6 months!

wowkingjames · Sep 23, 2016

As you can see we love them!

hart24601 · Sep 23, 2016

I think stags are popular, not the most popular, but I see a lot of them and many love their stags. I think they look great - it helps if you have a ton of flow so they get nice and thick. The worst looking ones I have seen imo are in lower flow tanks and they are very thin and long. I love a reef with SPS and a mighty stag as the focal point!

Graffiti Spot · Sep 24, 2016

Well said! Bruce who won tank of the month lives near me and he has a purple slimer that is soooo thick it's gorgeous! It might be 3"+ thick at the base branch. He cut me one branch which was over 1" thick.
Flow and light defiantly need to be high to make a stag look great. A long skinny stag with few branches doesn't do it for me. A nice abrotranoides or abrohlnosensis (spelling may be wrong there) is a nice choice but abros are a tough one to get going with good color.

Hey hinovak, what stags are you talking about from Aussie? I got one blue tip slimer from there but it turned all green like the maricultures do.

Graffiti Spot · Sep 24, 2016

I had a nice abrohlnosensis in this tank as a center piece.

Here is a close up of the tips.

A couple stags in my first big tank.

I will try and find some pics of them grown out.

hart24601 · Sep 24, 2016

Just saw this on reef builders and made me think of this thread.

https://reefbuilders.com/2016/09/24/where-the-big-corals-are-the-tank-of-martin-lakin/

FarmerTy · Sep 24, 2016

For me, they just grow so fast and take over the tank. While the tank in the reefbuilders article is nice, just not my style with all the the homogenous branching of stags covering the whole upper portion of the tank. I do like some interspersed here and there for vertical presence.