Anyone for coral pics?

I think the Efflo's might be my favorite tableing acro, I am trying to talk a guy out of his 8x8 colony but not sure my pockets are deep enough for the whole thing. I know his is in HIGH LIGHT and high flow and it is super purple with very bright white polyps.

schigara said:
I have only had the Efflo about a month. I was at my LFS and a club member was buying a 4inch Efflo frag and he had the owner of the store break up the plug it was attached to. There were 3x 1/2in chips of encrustment that came off and I snagged em free of charge. What you see in the pic is those 3 tiny pieces that I glued together. Heh, love free coral frags!

Anyway, the pic below is the small colony my frag came from.

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My favorite as well. Maybe you could talk him into a free tiny frag or a reasonable trade on a frag. Personally I have come to really like getting tiny pieces and watching them encrust and grow. Larger pieces seem to take forever to encrust as their base is shaded by the overall mass which cause their growth to slow down. Of course, if you get the larger colony with the rock it's encrusted to, then it's not an issue.

archer772 said:
I think the Efflo's might be my favorite tableing acro, I am trying to talk a guy out of his 8x8 colony but not sure my pockets are deep enough for the whole thing. I know his is in HIGH LIGHT and high flow and it is super purple with very bright white polyps.
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archer772 said:
I think the Efflo's might be my favorite tableing acro, I am trying to talk a guy out of his 8x8 colony but not sure my pockets are deep enough for the whole thing. I know his is in HIGH LIGHT and high flow and it is super purple with very bright white polyps.
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They are up there with mine too. Most of the ones you see have a really brown center, which I don't like, but the growth pattern is pretty darn cool. :)

And Schigara: While I agree that you sometimes cant actually tell the species of a coral, the old picture of the acro there does look like a prostrata to me. But the new one is crazy looking! Are those really oddly shaped coralites or just SUPER fat polyps? haha It's awesome looking. I love the color patterns.
 
Heh! It seems like everyone that sees my tank just stares and comments on this one coral. Actually, I think the strangness might be due to heavy water flow. It has grown very thick compared to when I got it.

The polyps are Super Fat but the coralites are very strange as well. Since the polyps are green, the whole coral looks green due to the super fat and bushy polyps but when the polyps retract, the tissue is deep blue. 2 months ago, the coralites were indiscernible. With the polyps retracted, the branches were just totally smooth with holes where the polyps were. Now, it seems like the coralites are regaining some definition.

fishieness said:
They are up there with mine too. Most of the ones you see have a really brown center, which I don't like, but the growth pattern is pretty darn cool. :)

And Schigara: While I agree that you sometimes cant actually tell the species of a coral, the old picture of the acro there does look like a prostrata to me. But the new one is crazy looking! Are those really oddly shaped coralites or just SUPER fat polyps? haha It's awesome looking. I love the color patterns.
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FTS shig!!
 
Well he has gaurenteed me a nice frag but he is thinking about selling the entire piece so I told him I would wait untill he decides if he is going to sell it, he is my uncle so I know I will get some one way or another. Here is a pic of it.
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Wow! That baby is absolutely amazing!! You can see a bit of tan color in the low lying areas but does have excellent color throughout. What kind of lighting does he have over that girl? I can really see why you want the whole colony. Brilliant.....just brilliant!!

PS. Looks like a $300-500 colony but don't tell him that.

archer772 said:
Well he has gaurenteed me a nice frag but he is thinking about selling the entire piece so I told him I would wait untill he decides if he is going to sell it, he is my uncle so I know I will get some one way or another. Here is a pic of it.
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