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Peter Gott

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  1. If I'm not mistaken I believe I saw some leptastreas in there...progress pics??? [emoji75][emoji75][emoji75](They're my favorite coral.) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  2. My mother got me a subscription to CORAL Magazine for my birthday!!!! WOOP WOOP!!!!

    1. esacjack

      esacjack

      wait...what? theres a coral magazine? made of that paper stuff I used to see back in school?

  3. Peter Gott

    Current 15g Display

    So I finally have a better camera--not much better; I just upgraded my phone from 4 to 4s. But the white balance is sufficiently improved to where I can take pictures and everything isn't just washed out in blue! A couple of disclaimers: I had just done a water change, so a few of the higher corals are still mad from some brief air exposure. Also, I know there are some flatworms present, but their population seems stable and has been for months now, so I just deal with it. The hair algae has been more-or-less vanquished except on the backs of some of the snails--that's what those patches you see are. And of course, these are still phone photos, so the colours aren't nearly as spectacular in the pictures as they are in real life. All-in-all, though, I'm pretty pleased with this setup. 8}
  4. From the album: Current 15g Display

    Another beautiful coral from Cultivated Reefs. As with the Pokerstar, the coenosarc here is more indigo than blue, and it's such a soft colour that it seems to glow. To the lower right you can also see a sweet tube coral which hitchhiked on my live rock.

    © Peter "Dash" Gott

  5. From the album: Current 15g Display

    I just really love this view. I tried to position my corals so that the composition from very angle emphasized the star of my aquarium, this unknown Montipora sp., but the other montis grow faster.

    © Peter "Dash" Gott

  6. From the album: Current 15g Display

    This is the most beautiful B. merletti I have ever seen! Truly! It is red with a blue center! My iPhone really really didn't know how to handle the contrast between the shady spot it is in and the brightly lit rock right above it, though. You'll just have to see it in person. Fortunately at the rate it grows, I will be fragging it soon.

    © Peter "Dash" Gott

  7. From the album: Current 15g Display

    This beautiful Pokerstar Monti is from Cultivated Reefs. Unfortunately the iPhone focuses on the green and the subtle glow of the indigo coenosarc is impossible to appreciate in this picture.

    © Peter "Dash" Gott

  8. Peter Gott

    Plesiastrea

    From the album: Current 15g Display

    This Plesiastrea sp. is without a doubt the brightest green I have ever seen in a coral. Or anywhere, really. Unfortunately it grows more slowly than a glacier...

    © Peter "Dash" Gott

  9. From the album: Current 15g Display

    The angle at which this grows out is really interesting, but has so many depths of field that it is almost impossible to photograph well. Also, of course, the iPhone doesn't do a good job catching its colour. It was traded to me as a pink digi, but in my system it is more peach.

    © Peter "Dash" Gott

  10. From the album: Current 15g Display

    This beauty is also from a club member. It is very delicate in structure, but puts out surprisingly long sweeper tentacles. It seems to be picky about its neighbors, though: It will attack any LPS except (thus far) the Leptastrea, or any encrusting SPS...but it leaves my digis alone.

    © Peter "Dash" Gott

  11. From the album: Current 15g Display

    Another orange M. digitata; this one from a club member.

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  12. From the album: Current 15g Display

    This beautiful Leptastrea is also from Cultivated Reefs. The iPhone, again, does not do it justice; the "orange" is more of a burnt yellow or golden flame colour, and the polyps coenosarc is actually green in established parts of the colony and white in the newer parts. Each tentacle is kind of a purplish-brown, and each one is tipped with purple. I never tire of watching it.

    © Peter "Dash" Gott

  13. From the album: Current 15g Display

    The main focus of this picture, for me, is the colony of Liam's Clove Polyps which I also got from Cultivated Reef. To the right, however, you can also see an orange M. digitata from Cultivated Reefs and a purple M. digitata. To the left you can see the fourth morph of Leptastrea I have, a brilliant green one from Austin Aqua Farms.

    © Peter "Dash" Gott

  14. From the album: Current 15g Display

    I just love the composition of my Leptastrea and this peach M. digitata together. You can also see my Pavona frondifera, Caulastrea curvata, a tuft of hair-algae-covered snail, and my rainbow Acanthastrea lordhowensis. That latter piece is also from Cultivated Reefs. It's typically beauty, but he is closed up here due to irritation from the snail.

    © Peter "Dash" Gott

  15. From the album: Current 15g Display

    I think that this might be a Montipora stellata. I have only seen it for sale in two places, one of which is Cultivated Reef, where this one came from. It is a slower grower, but it is definitely the star of my aquarium, with a purple-brown body, bright green polyps and stunning lavender tips that just seem to glow in a way that the iPhone of course cannot capture.

    © Peter "Dash" Gott

  16. From the album: Current 15g Display

    Again, my iPhone has trouble with colours: While definitely fluorescent, this Monti has a much deeper, more forest green than most of the greens one sees in the coral world.

    © Peter "Dash" Gott

  17. From the album: Current 15g Display

    This is definitely the bluest of all the German Blue-Polyped Montipora digitatas I've seen, but of course that just doesn't show up on the iPhone.

    © Peter "Dash" Gott

  18. Peter Gott

    Christmas Favia

    From the album: Current 15g Display

    This beauty was given to me for free, appropriately enough as a Christmas Gift! He is also from Cultivated Reefs. He has grown a lot since I got him, and over in the shady part of my aquarium he even has some blue which just doesn't show up with my iPhone.

    © Peter "Dash" Gott

  19. From the album: Current 15g Display

    This is one of my two favourite corals in this tank. Leptastrea are hands-down my favourite corals in general, and I've never seen a more beautiful colour morph than this one. This coral comes from Greg at Cultivated Reefs.

    © Peter "Dash" Gott

  20. From the album: Current 15g Display

    I think that the red and yellow coral in the upper right-hand corner is a Goniopora sp. When I firt got it I thought it was a Leptastrea, for closed it looked like a closed up Leptastrea, red with yellow centers. But shortly after putting it on my sand bed to acclimate, to my surprise it opened to look like tiny red flowers on tiny red stalks with yellow centers! Fortunately it seems to be doing well in my setup. Unfortunately the amazing colours of my acans are one of the things the iPhone doesn't pick up very well. All of these came from Austin Aqua Farms.

    © Peter "Dash" Gott

  21. From the album: Current 15g Display

    This is pretty cool; you can see air bubbles trapped in the mucus from where this coral was just above water for a couple of minutes.
  22. From the album: Current 15g Display

    You can also see what I believe to be a Goniopona sp. in the background.
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