What a Fine Specimen.

Discussion in 'Soft Corals' started by Stingray, May 9, 2008.

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  1. Stingray

    Stingray Blue Ringed Angel

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    Seen this lovely piece of rock with green/brown mushrooms on it, i just had to get it for the price £23.99, there are 18 mushrooms on it in total.
    Their still a bit closed up at the mo just finished aclimatiseing them, will get one up whrn fully opened...

    My first coral, thought i would share it with you...

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  3. phoenixhieghts

    phoenixhieghts Panda Puffer

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    Purple blue and green some nice colours there. And a very easy speciman to look after - will readily split and grown and even move off that rock onto others!
     
  4. Calawah

    Calawah Astrea Snail

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    Nice score! Congrats. I've been thinking about adding some mushrooms as my first pieces of coral.
     
  5. phoenixhieghts

    phoenixhieghts Panda Puffer

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    I have seen reed systems with nothing but different coloured mushrooms completely covering every rock - it did look very cool!
     
  6. nunch

    nunch Aiptasia Anemone

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    Very nice piece!
     
  7. Seppish

    Seppish Fire Worm

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    Very nice! My first coral was also a rock full of mushrooms, same color in fact. Nice score
     
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  9. Jason McKenzie

    Jason McKenzie Super Moderator

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    COOL great first coral. Like many that was my first coral too. I still have a lot of the mushrooms that came on that first rock. Actually I've been able to put some in my wifes Nano and they are doing Great.

    Next stop xenia LOL

    J
     
  10. omard

    omard Gnarly Old Codfish

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    And some Kenya Tree...you will never need to buy another coral. Every square cm of LR will be covered with either your shrooms, xenia, and KTrees...will not take long either...[​IMG]
     
  11. phoenixhieghts

    phoenixhieghts Panda Puffer

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    Great point Omard - throw in a few clove polyps for a little extra colour too :) they grow just as well
     
  12. Stingray

    Stingray Blue Ringed Angel

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    Cheers for your approval guys, here's a updated pic of the shrooms now they settled in , looks to me like i have a polyp on there too...

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    Is it normal for the shrooms to look a bit shrivelled up first thing when i put the lights on for a hour or so, is this cause they have had no light all night...
    On the left you can see my chalk goby doing what he does best turning over the substrate, very good addititon...
     
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