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Old 07/05/2004, 01:30 PM
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Ok, everyone send me a frag of your lord, then I will prop and populate =).
since you have the most acan out of anybody here I think as a good faith messure you should send us all a frag of your first.
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Old 07/05/2004, 03:02 PM
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Old 07/05/2004, 04:51 PM
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Chris, you are a FUNNY guy!
I was serious Joe, you want my address?






Hehehehehe =).
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Old 07/05/2004, 09:10 PM
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Ok, everyone send me a frag of your lord, then I will prop and populate =).
Ok,send me a lord.I'll send you back some..then you can prop and populate
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Old 07/05/2004, 11:30 PM
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Ok,send me a lord.I'll send you back some..then you can prop and populate
Um, heh, I dont think is works quite like that =)...I think you need to send me a green one first, then we carry on hehe.
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Old 07/06/2004, 01:49 AM
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you all just need to send em to me.
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Old 07/06/2004, 01:52 AM
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honestly, I go to my LFS's every week on shipment date
What LFS do you go to?
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Old 07/06/2004, 02:06 AM
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....Tongs, Jeffs, RC, Octopus Garden, Goldfish world, AW, Pet Kingdom, Fish collection, um.. Basically anything we can think of when we go to la.. and so far hahah out of all my searching I found one piece..and it was pure dumb luck.. as they called it a Blastomusa the only place I know that has one is Tongs, and they refuse to sell it.
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Old 07/06/2004, 05:45 AM
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Might consider RM, as Chris/Kristine will have them on rare occasions, Bob
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Old 07/06/2004, 12:33 PM
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so just wondering as the starter of the thread what I get out of it if I give you guys a site on ware to get acan frags...
I'm getting an orange one this week, kinda like yours chris
Kelly
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Old 07/06/2004, 01:10 PM
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so just wondering as the starter of the thread what I get out of it if I give you guys a site on ware to get acan frags...
What you get by publishing the site is hopefully more people buying these corals, fragging them, propogating them and seeing them enter into more mainstream reef aquarists hands which will hopefully lower the price.

It's a win/win when you share with everyone like that.
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Old 07/07/2004, 10:42 AM
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very true. Here ya go. It's a grea little site with other rare frags, and you can even find frags in your area.
www.frags.org
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Old 07/07/2004, 11:27 AM
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Yeah, good site. No lords though =(.
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Old 07/07/2004, 12:38 PM
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how can you tell the species of acanthastrea? what are the differences? I know/think it has something to do with coralites(?)
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Old 07/07/2004, 12:40 PM
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I can just tell from the flesh. Other similar acans are harder to tell such as hillae and bowerbanki. The ones familiar to the trade, enchinata, lordhowenis, and rotundaflora are all very easy (at least for me) to tell apart. It might have something to do with me researching/hunting them down day and night for like 2-3 months though hehe.
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Old 07/07/2004, 12:43 PM
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any sites you know of with pictures of all of the different species so I can see how the flesh looks different?
Are their 10 different species?
Just trying to learn new stuff
Thankx
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Old 07/07/2004, 01:30 PM
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any sites you know of with pictures of all of the different species so I can see how the flesh looks different?
Are their 10 different species?
Just trying to learn new stuff
Thankx
Kelly
You can check this out:

http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/coralid_search.php
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Old 07/07/2004, 01:49 PM
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cool, thanks. That's a really neat site.
Ware do you guys normally order and buy your acanthastrea?
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Old 07/07/2004, 01:52 PM
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I have gotten all of mine through hobbyists. I have never seen one available at a store. I know of a few cali guys who have gotten them for chicken scratch in cali mis identified as blastos.
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Old 07/07/2004, 01:56 PM
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I have gotten all of mine through hobbyists. I have never seen one available at a store. I know of a few cali guys who have gotten them for chicken scratch in cali mis identified as blastos.

woot woot chicken scract hobbiest!! See above post for how i find them.,
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Old 07/07/2004, 02:07 PM
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I don't know about mis-identified corals anymore. Someone informed the owner of Reef Collection that he indeed had a acanthastrea on his hands. Surely enough, the coral sold for $750 instead of the price of a blasto. Would I have been honest to let him know?...We will never know...

Honestly, since I know and like Frank, I would have told him, but would have gotten him to frag a piece of it off at a special price...hehehe
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Old 07/07/2004, 02:11 PM
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I don't know about mis-identified corals anymore. Someone informed the owner of Reef Collection that he indeed had a acanthastrea on his hands. Surely enough, the coral sold for $750 instead of the price of a blasto. Would I have been honest to let him know?...We will never know...

Honestly, since I know and like Frank, I would have told him, but would have gotten him to frag a piece of it off at a special price...hehehe
..that somebody was me.. I think frank is a good guy aswell, he pulled me aside and asked me a direct question as to what the piece was, and the value of it.... I couldn't lie to somebody face even if I wanted to. The piece had close to 40 Heads on it, in honesty if that guy didn't buy it for 750 I was next in line.
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Old 07/07/2004, 02:20 PM
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Very nice Joe! Here are two new ones, not great shots.



Aww, look at the cute baby.
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Old 07/07/2004, 02:22 PM
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Aww, look at the cute baby.
Hehe, yeah I counted 9 heads on that baby =).
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Old 07/07/2004, 02:36 PM
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Reef Science has a green Acanthastrea echinata for sale. Bob
 

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