FarmerTy Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Alright folks, another one of my random games to fill the day. What was the first coral you ever had? Bonus points for pics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reburn Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Mohawk palys. Still got them. Still like them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 Left rock, top mushroom. That was my first coral ever. I was rocking the compact fluorescents in my nanocube! Funny thing, looking back, I still have the middle rock and right rock in my sump and that green fungia plate spawned the entire progeny I have in my system and countless others who bought one from me. Those orange skirt zoas with the yellow dot center I still have in my system today... 10 years later. I'm also impressed I knew back then to keep the star polyps on the sand by itself. [emoji57] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 It's been so long I can't remember. I don't even know if digital cameras were even invented yet! I;m pretty sure it was some random zoas colony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolt Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 It was a frogspawn. But only by mere minutes. This is my entire haul from C4 last year. Sill have em all except the green ric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+boognish Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Pulsing Xenia. As much as I gave away, sold, traded and tore out and threw over the fence, it kept growing. Constantly waving at me mockingly, as if to say "helloooo I'm still here!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timfish Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I can remember when Xenia was impossible to keep! I think I still have an old FAMA (Fresh and Marine Aquarium) magazine laying around with an article on tips for keeping them alive. Purple Mushrooms back in 1988. Looked great in the LFS (they were using 5800K lights) but didn't like the 4100K flourescents I was using. Burleson still hadn't written his article introducing aquarists to the Phillips 03 actinic light and the effect it had on making corals brighter. It would be still another 8 years give or take before the first fluorescing proteins were discovered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoly Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Kenya Tree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offroadodge Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Toadstool Leather...HELLO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makena95GT Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Whammin Watermelons from Fish Gallery lol long since dead >.> Oldest coral I have in my system right now, i think the toadstool leather Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefgardner Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Picked up a cool rock with a couple of mushrooms and red macro. It even came with free Aiptasia, I think I finally got them all and added a couple of peppermint shrimp just in case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockstarwiggle Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Pulsing Xenia. Brown button polyps and green mushroom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madsalt Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Kenya tree, what a mistake that crap was everywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon Reefer Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Large colony of common Radioactive Dragon Eyes & Eagle Eye Zoanthids Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JoseZ Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 G-S-P!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bpb Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Really showing my noob-ness. May 12, 2012. Pics from The day after I set up my first saltwater tank. Came with two corals. The favia I still have in my current tank (sold the pictured colony but kept a single polyp back then and it has grown to 3-4x the original mother size colony). Whammin watermelons long gone but I've still got that species in the tank from another source. The azure damsel is still with me as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasReef Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 This is my first duncan. That emerald crab has been invaluable for cleaning up so he's a bonus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BornToHula Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Green Star Polyp - and I still can't get rid of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haze152 Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Alright folks, another one of my random games to fill the day. What was the first coral you ever had? Bonus points for pics! My first SPS look familiar TY? About 3 months after I bought a tiny 5 dollar frag from you My First 2 LPS Frog Spawn at the bottom next to clam The frog Spawn 1 year later when I took the tank down last week its was 45 heads Ty stylo one year later under 250w MH TY Stylo 10 months later under LEDS The same duncan 1 year later - 8 months later under LED when I took the tank down its was 32 heads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted April 15, 2015 Author Share Posted April 15, 2015 Hey hey! Look at that purple stylo go!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new55galSALT Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 First coral was Kenya tree...And it mutilpied so much I was giving it away free...then it all died except what I put into a different tank... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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