Desperately Seeking Coral!
When I first got into corals, I found a guy on Craigslist (pre-ARC) in Lilburn that was selling frags out of his tank. I went to get a couple xienia frags.
When I got there, I was surprised to see that he had a fairly large set-up (40 gallon or so) on what looked to be little more than the bookcase unit of an entertainment center...... It was so inaccessible that he had not changed the filter wheels of two Penguin Power Filters in quite sometime (that's all that filtered the tank). I was shocked that he had a tank full of neon blue coraline, I'd never seen that before! (it was his lights I think, as a tiny piece of coraline on a frag I'd purchased turned a drab green under the CF lighting in my tank.) Great guy, and in spite of bending the rules of reefing a bit.... Obviously had a healthy thriving tank.
Anyway, I got my Xenia frags and he asked me if I'd be interested in a free piece of this other coral he had that was taking over one side of his tank. He said it was all shrunken up right then because he had his hand in the tank all afternoon, but would extend its polyps after a while of being left alone.
It looked a bit like gray, waxy flesh, but he cut a piece, told me to tie it to a rock and it would encrust.
Got my frags home and loved the Xenia, and tied the unknown coral to a rock like he'd told me, but was nonplused by it, as it didn't look like much.
The next day, it started extending the beautiful grass green polyps, and quickly became one of my favorite corals. I quickly grew bored with the Xenia, but always liked the fast growing no name coral I got for free.
Years later, it went with the set up I sold when I moved, but more than anything, I want to find this coral.....
Here's the best description I can muster.......
Encrusting
Long "grass-like" polyps that unlike GSP, grew and angled all in the same direction, rather than the polyps forming a star shape and did not have the round dot that GSP has in the center of each star
Grayish pink flesh on the top side when polyps were retracted, but a DARK GRAYISH RED on the encrusting side
When it fully encrusted the rock it was on, it would begin growing long finger like appendages that would grow out and slightly up. The top side would curl under, exposing less of the dark red encrusting side, allowing for more space for polyps to catch more available light and grow
At night, it would send out translucent sweeper tentacles that extended out quite far.......
It did well (enough) under CF lighting.
Very Hardy!
oh, and one other thing,
:shout:IT WASN'T GSP!:shout:
Can someone help me out? I've never seen this coral in a store..... But if I new what it was and where it was, I'd leave right now to buy a frag!
Please Help!
Thank you!
When I first got into corals, I found a guy on Craigslist (pre-ARC) in Lilburn that was selling frags out of his tank. I went to get a couple xienia frags.
When I got there, I was surprised to see that he had a fairly large set-up (40 gallon or so) on what looked to be little more than the bookcase unit of an entertainment center...... It was so inaccessible that he had not changed the filter wheels of two Penguin Power Filters in quite sometime (that's all that filtered the tank). I was shocked that he had a tank full of neon blue coraline, I'd never seen that before! (it was his lights I think, as a tiny piece of coraline on a frag I'd purchased turned a drab green under the CF lighting in my tank.) Great guy, and in spite of bending the rules of reefing a bit.... Obviously had a healthy thriving tank.
Anyway, I got my Xenia frags and he asked me if I'd be interested in a free piece of this other coral he had that was taking over one side of his tank. He said it was all shrunken up right then because he had his hand in the tank all afternoon, but would extend its polyps after a while of being left alone.
It looked a bit like gray, waxy flesh, but he cut a piece, told me to tie it to a rock and it would encrust.
Got my frags home and loved the Xenia, and tied the unknown coral to a rock like he'd told me, but was nonplused by it, as it didn't look like much.
The next day, it started extending the beautiful grass green polyps, and quickly became one of my favorite corals. I quickly grew bored with the Xenia, but always liked the fast growing no name coral I got for free.
Years later, it went with the set up I sold when I moved, but more than anything, I want to find this coral.....
Here's the best description I can muster.......
Encrusting
Long "grass-like" polyps that unlike GSP, grew and angled all in the same direction, rather than the polyps forming a star shape and did not have the round dot that GSP has in the center of each star
Grayish pink flesh on the top side when polyps were retracted, but a DARK GRAYISH RED on the encrusting side
When it fully encrusted the rock it was on, it would begin growing long finger like appendages that would grow out and slightly up. The top side would curl under, exposing less of the dark red encrusting side, allowing for more space for polyps to catch more available light and grow
At night, it would send out translucent sweeper tentacles that extended out quite far.......
It did well (enough) under CF lighting.
Very Hardy!
oh, and one other thing,
:shout:IT WASN'T GSP!:shout:
Can someone help me out? I've never seen this coral in a store..... But if I new what it was and where it was, I'd leave right now to buy a frag!
Please Help!
Thank you!
