55 gallon SPS reef tank- 5/31 Tear Down

ORA pearlberry
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Enchinata is not on your list, a nice Hawkins or Fire/Ice.

My Pink Lemonade gets here today ( I believe they are a Nausta), I'll let you know what I think.

I am big into Granulosa lately.

Why any one would want a Pocillopora is beyond me, once they start dropping polyps all over your tank it's too late.

I see no Stylophora either, which is a better choice IME.

 

I couldn't turn down free frags (pocillipora).

I have been gaining interest in the smooth skin acropora lately. Maybe I'll sell my pocillipora and get a granulosa and or enchinata.

Any suggestions on a blue, red or purple staghorn coral to match the slimer?

 

Look at any of the Formosas, and the blue Milleporas.

 

I couldn't turn down free frags (pocillipora).

I have been gaining interest in the smooth skin acropora lately. Maybe I'll sell my pocillipora and get a granulosa and or enchinata.

Any suggestions on a blue, red or purple staghorn coral to match the slimer?

 

I'll look into the A. formosas I have a blue milli frag.

 

It can be so difficult to decide what to get. That is why I never end up with just 1 coral ha ha

 

Some thoughts on acros

blue: Cali tort or check Battlecorals skinny love.
Pink: Bubblegum milli ,
red:dog boy clath, raspberry lemonade, rommels watermelon.

 

Isn't that the truth. I was at the LFS last week and he asked me what can I get for you(SPS). I said, "All of them".

I looked up each of those on battle corals. Great suggestions, but man, I wish I made the money to affors those. lol

I'm a cheap frag accumlator. I hate shipping and hate spending more than $20 lol.

 

I visitied a local reefer today and after the visit, I came away with a different interest than I had yesterday.

He had 2 very nice frags that were boardering mini colonies (in a nano) of a deep red A. hyacintus (different color from the Red Planet) and a gorgeous green A. efflorescens.

Both have completely encrusted the plug (top and sides), have a lot of upward growth and have grown out away from the plug already. Niether have started tabling yet, but in the right conditions, should pretty quickly. I can aquire each for $35 and while that is higher than my $20 limit that I suggested above, I don't consider either to be frags.

I think these two may be my last additons. These two will allow me to have blues, oranges, purples and greens on the left side----reds, greens and pinks in the middle----greens, reds and blues on the right side of my tank. There will also be tabling, branching and cluster corals throughout.

Good blance of colors and shapes.

 

If you decide you want more, I'm not sure where you'd find frags of these but here are some of my acro hopefulls:
a. aculeus-- cool bottlebrush that is increasing in popularity
a. pectinatus-- rare branching stag, comes in all forms of colors
a. sarmentosa-- LOVE the color on these, cyan with solid red polyps
a. pulchra-- another rare branching stag
a. abrotanoides-- only if you're feeling confident/brave...comes in green base with pink tips or solid blue...or brown.