"challice" pics...lets see em! - Page 14

MarksReef · #**326** 03/19/2005, 05:49 PM

Since I cant edit my thread

(I moved the Pic's) I'll post them again.

For size

ReeferMac · #**327** 03/19/2005, 06:27 PM

Mothra, there's a LOT of people w/ the Blue Chalice... and I've yet to see one that's actually "blue".

Most people get a variation of green, or teal, or greenish blue. I put a piece off mine underneath an overhang that got hardly any light at all (just what reflected off the rubble, or so it seemed), and once, when heavily sedated, I thought I saw it look blue for a second.... but it was mostly brown and greenish colored, even then, too.
It must have looked blue when it came out of the ocean, because I sure haven't seen anyone capable of turning it blue since.

Yeah, I'd say you got a good score Mark.
The purple I've actually been giving more light to as of late... and it's liking it. Growing a little thicker. Seems to like a lot of flow too. It's up in Acro territory now. BTW, we should hook up, I'm home now for a spell, so around during the week doing the daddy thing. I've been meaning to call Jimmer, too.

- Mac

mothra · #**328** 03/21/2005, 11:10 AM

Re; the blue challice - Yep. I just saw another today that someone has had for a while and his looks just like mine. I'm putting it totally under a ledge since less light supposedly turns it blue. IMO if you have to tell someone what color a coral is, then it isn't that color. Another month and I'll probably sell it to someone else who wants to try coloring up a LE frag. I've got other more interesting challices that I'm happy with.

yoshiod9 · #**329** 03/21/2005, 02:37 PM

as i'm sure you guys know...chalices change color more than my chameleon does! i've got a piece i traded to rob(jusreefin) this past meeting and when it was in my 12g it was blue with pinkish-red striations. in my 6g the colony is almost entirely blue. these guys change for just about any reason possible.

mothra · #**330** 03/21/2005, 02:50 PM

Yep, I have a piece of Rob's too, so does Plankton and they all look different (Plankton's frag is now peach colored!).

The Tyree LE 'Blue Challice' is actually an Echinopora which I don't believe change as dramatically as the Echinophyllias. I have seen several now and they all look the same - none blue.

mothra · #**331** 03/21/2005, 02:51 PM

I have seen (in person) a blue Echinophyllia by the way and believe me I'm after a piece of it

! The crazy thing is the guy who has it is letting it color up, it already is looking sweet

Jus Reefin · #**332** 03/21/2005, 03:25 PM

Jacob, the piece Danny is talking about is one he gave me not one I gave him

Danny that piece you gave me is a trip. It has some pink highlights but the actual color is hard to describe, it's like it's not even a color

if that makes sense

Wait until you see the new one I picked up. It is about 10" round and is Red with some Green and a Purple rim!!

Anemone · #**333** 03/21/2005, 05:07 PM

Hmmm, here's a pic of my blue chalice before my DSB crashed and killed it. It's under 250 watt 10 DE MH's.

What color would you call it?

And here are some frags I was growing out:

The original frag was tan when I got it. I had it under high light, because I didn't "know any better."

I got the frag from another reefer (who originally bought it from Tyree), who didn't really say anything about "low light." By the time I found out it was supposed to be a low-light coral, it looked like this.

FWIW,
Kevin

mothra · #**334** 03/21/2005, 06:10 PM

Anemone, your top pic is a much bluer than the couple that I have seen but still looks purpleish to me.
But still not like this http://reeffarmers.com/limitedechinopora.htm

and definitely not like this:
http://reeffarmers.com/stechinopora.jpg

I guess I will really have to deprave mine of light (doing so now) and see what happens I'm giving it another month to see if it colors up (or would it be down in this case). I don't know if I'll have enough patience for it to grow if its not getting any light, although it is a big frag so maybe I can wait it out...

Jus Reefin · #**335** 03/21/2005, 06:14 PM

http://reeffarmers.com/stechinopora.jpg

If that is the "true color" and not Actinic I have got to get a piece of that. That is the bluest Coral I have seen

mothra · #**336** 03/21/2005, 06:17 PM

Want to buy mine? I'll sell it to you at cost and you don't have to get on the waiting list until 2007

Jus Reefin · #**337** 03/21/2005, 06:32 PM

LOL the day I get put on a waiting list for a Coral Please Shoot me LOL HAHAHA. I'm sure it's more then I want to pay but shoot me a PM

Jus Reefin · #**338** 03/22/2005, 12:01 AM

a little sumfin....

or should I say BIG. That I picked up It is Red with Blue/green and a Purple Rim

JenDub · #**339** 03/22/2005, 03:35 AM

Niiiiiice.....that's purty

mothra · #**340** 03/22/2005, 10:10 AM

Cool.

RandyO · #**341** 03/22/2005, 11:12 AM

Hey Rob. I picked up something similar last week. It's been changing color very quickly. Went from mostly green/blue with orange/pink mouths, to mostly orange now. I'd bet yours changes solid too. Very nice score.

mothra · #**342** 03/22/2005, 11:28 AM

These echinophyllias morph out more than anything else I've seen so far. I'm giving all mine a lot of light right now and watching them 'get crazy'.

big bear1 · #**343** 03/23/2005, 05:25 PM

Can i get some help to id this?

mothra · #**344** 03/23/2005, 05:37 PM

Sweet Oxypora lacera.

Jus Reefin · #**345** 03/23/2005, 05:43 PM

Looks like Oxy pora to me but the pic is a little Dark.

Randy, I have had this guy for 4 days now and so far it's the same colors. When I first bought it I thought it was just a solid red until I got home then BAMM! i am really hooked on these corals now. i bought one a few months ago that I call "Fruit Loops" it loks like a Rainbow under 20k's but has turned so many different colors in other tanks, I have seen the same coral in other tanks and it's peach or green colored.

MarksReef · #**346** 03/23/2005, 05:47 PM

Jus Reefin. Looks like mine (top of page ).
big bear1, Nice.

Kreeger1 · #**347** 03/23/2005, 06:08 PM

What kind of lighting and how far from it is everyone doing, I have my blue oxypora 12 inches under a 250 watt halide and my pink on the bottom, 24 inches
I'm wondering it I should move the pink up higher
Erik

Jus Reefin · #**348** 03/23/2005, 06:18 PM

All of mine are about a foot or more under 250w 10k ushio MH. I just added 2 dual 54w T-5 blues as well

MarksReef, they do look very similar

mothra · #**349** 03/23/2005, 06:33 PM

All of my challices/oxy's are 6-12 inches from the surface. My tank is 100% T5 lit.

ReeferMac · #**350** 03/23/2005, 07:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by big bear1
Can i get some help to id this?

Only if you send me a frag of it!
Sweet piece, man.

- Mac