Let there be corals!

[Drumachine09]

I went to my favorite LFS today after school to pick up a few mushroom corals.


I came out with:


3x Striped mushroom corals - $18 ($6 a peice)
1x Colony of Zoanthids - $20
1x Orange ricordia polyp - $25
1x Bottle of coral food - $5


I talked to the lady there for an HOUR about all of the corals, and fish there. She is a really nice person, and she gave me the bottle of coral food that was $12 for $5, because I shared her taste in Orange ricordias.


My new corals are drip acclimating right now. Expect pictures in a few hours.

[Tigerbarb]

Sounds like you are doing great. Can't wait to see some pix.

[karbomb]

i want pics! congrats on the purchase.

[Drumachine09]

Here are some pics. Not the best quality, and there is a bunch of little air bubbles from my skimmer in there (need to get that sorted out), and they aren't fully opened or colored up, so bear with me:



Orange Ricordia:

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t257/drumachine09/fish005.jpg


Two (of three) striped mushrooms:

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t257/drumachine09/fish004.jpg



My colony of zoanthids:

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t257/drumachine09/fish003.jpg




Full tank:

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t257/drumachine09/fish002.jpg

[coachfraley]

Great selections drum! I love the ric!!!

Are you really supposed to drip acclimate your corals????

Everyone I know just drops them in...no bag float, no nothing.

[cocoa_pleco]

youre supposed to drip, but ive just plopped them in with no problems

[Drumachine09]

I drip just in case. I figure if you don't need to, it won't hurt anything, and if you do need to, well, I don't really have a choice!

[jbeining75]

Sweet mushy's drum...... Tank is looking good.

[Drumachine09]

I've always got a spot in my tank for mushrooms. They were the first coral I'd ever kept. Great little corals.

[jbeining75]

Just think in a year you could have most of that live rock covered..........hahaha... more mushrooms....

[cocoa_pleco]

lol, mushrooms will take over! my bullseye mushroom was a tiny .5" frag 3 months ago, now its 3" and theres 4 new ones sprouting close to it

[Drumachine09]

Return them for store credit ;)

[cocoa_pleco]

the store here is loaded with mushrooms, the one i usually go to sells corals out of a 300g long and 55g, and they have 100 mushrooms in the 300g.

im just gonna cut mine off and place them somewhere else in the tank

[Fenix]

Good stuff man. Coral food hmm interesting. I think i ll invest in that.

Mushrooms are sweet! They are like my favorite species of coral.

[Drumachine09]

It says it has vitamins, proteins, and spirulina. You use a plastic syringe and target feed each coral 2 drops, two times a week. Pretty cool stuff.

[Fenix]

That sounds like a lot of work. I think i ll pass. I want something I can just add to my water.

[spudbuds]

Congrats drum! I love ricordeas and zoanthids. Great color choices.

[TowBoater]

Nice selection. I love the ric. My parents have 2 purple ones and a batch of zoas also but are clown goby stays in them all the time.

[zackish]

Colored ric is always nice and rare. I remember a guy I know was selling blue ric for $40 a polyp. And he could be considered wholesale.

[Fenix]

Colored ric is always nice and rare. I remember a guy I know was selling blue ric for $40 a polyp. And he could be considered wholesale.

Thats a little much. I got mine for 10 bucks.

[Drumachine09]

I got another colony of zoos today. Pics later when the decide to open up.

[Drumachine09]

Ok, bad news. I went to do a waterchange on my salt tank, and realized I could only find 2 of my new shrooms.

It was attached to a few pieces of gravel when I bought it, and I used underwater epoxy to attach it to my LR. It was gone. When I drained some water, I took out most of my LR to look for it. Can't find it.


There goes $6 down the john.



In other news, my NEW zoa opened up. It has some pretty sick colors too. Going to try to get a pic or two now.

[Drumachine09]

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t257/drumachine09/coral002.jpg


THE best picture I have EVER taken. I am going to use blockposters.com and turn it into a 3x2.5 foot poster, mount it on black cardboard, and hang it somewhere.


I apologize for the page stretch. Its just such a good picture, I didn't have the heart to shrink it.

[coachfraley]

Wow, that is a great frag Drum! You should put those somewhere where they can spread out, they have GREATcolor.

[Drumachine09]

I am going to get some more rock soon, so they can have a bit of room to stretch out a bit. In the tank at the store, they looked kinda brownish pink. They were the cheapest frag they had (aside from mushrooms), so I decided to get them. When I got home, they got their colors, and I was psyched.


My brother and his wife are moving to Houston, and they always love oggeling my tanks when they come around, so I think I'll make up an extra set of the posters as a house warming gift.



Also, I am making a poster of this one:



http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t257/drumachine09/coral003.jpg




Once again, I apologize for the stretch.

[cocoa_pleco]

WICKED pic! one of my zoa frags looks like that, give it 2 weeks and it will spread like crazy

[Fenix]

nice pictures. nice zoos!

[Drumachine09]

Buying corals is BY FAR the most addicting thing I have ever done.

[coachfraley]

Like everyone else, you will go until you run out of room, then you will find yourself researching larger tanks on the internet, lol.

[Drumachine09]

I've already been researching larger tanks, lol.


Two problems though:


My mom says "And where do you plan on putting THAT monstrosity" whenever I bring up the idea of a 100+ gallon tank.



And two, I plan on leaving for college, and 99.999% of dorms won't let you have a massive aquarium, so this will have to do. Store credit for zoos will be nice though ;)

[cocoa_pleco]

Like everyone else, you will go until you run out of room, then you will find yourself researching larger tanks on the internet, lol.

man, i saw the sickest tank at aquagiant, a 200g bowfront, about 600lbs LR, and TONS of corals

[Algenco]

Awesome pics! I'll have a reef tank by summer, can't resist any longer

[spudbuds]

Nice zoos Drum and a very cool pic. I'll have to check out the poster site you referred to. That would be awesome to have.

Algenco - Welcome to the club. :sbiggrin:

[Tigerbarb]

Really good pix! I like how the snail is on your zoas!

[Drumachine09]

I got another REALLY good picture of my new mushroom, and an equally good pick of my ricordia. I'll photobucket them tonight and post them.



I got this stuff called "Inkjet Canvas Paper". It looks like Artist's canvas. When you print, it gives it a really cool look. I am doing it to all four, and framing them.