Random picture goodness

Hi All,

Just decompressing on a beautiful spring night. Of course that involves some tank gazing. Then that led to taking some random pics. Some turned out - so I figured I would share.

Some of the pics (the first, second and fourth) show something that I believe is called heteroxenia. The third pic is also of what I think is heteroxenia but it is more pink/silver-ish (totally different frag). I could be mistaken BUT I think that little purple cluster just might be some of the variety referred to as "Octopus Ink". I picked them up at the LFS the other day - some guy brought in a huge bunch of them because he "hated the rock they were on".

These little octopus polyps are incredibly awesome, they look iridescent purple & blue (the camera is not doing them justice). Like an octopus, they have 8 little arms that do not pulse quite the way a xenia does so much as undulate - more like octopus tentacles would - they actually curl and uncurl a bit. They are highly detailed along the edges - absolutely gorgeous - cannot wait til they start to spread.

If anyone else has these or knows more about them, feel free to share your info or pics

In the meantime, enough babble.....on with the pics.

Hope all of you are enjoying your Friday night as well.

 

Awesome pics!

 

more randomness.

consider it...."camera babble"...

 

Great looking corals! Always fun looking at other peoples builds.

 

and some more.....

 

Frogspawn, hammer and torch!?!?! You have yourself a sweet LPS trio. Lol. Pictures are looking great. And yes, that is a heteroxenia in the first picture.

 

and look...there's more....

 

and at last some more....

 

thank you so very much....im excited about everything i have gotten. Yeah the torch and frogspawns (3 of those now) are all growing quite noticeably. My wee hammer is too.

I am very glad to be getting a bigger tank set up pretty soon to give everyone a better space to grow in.

Im VERY excited about my heteroxenias....I am pretty sure that I have two kinds (the ones in the first 4 pics). They are awesome and the colors are just beautiful. Thank you for confirming the ID. !

 

thank you! Now if i could just get you to do the write up on my posts...and narrate them for me!

*grin*