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07/26/2007, 10:08 AM
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flamehawk, when you get the chance please take a bunch of pics of your cespit. Some macro shots please.
Anyways onto your questions. 1. The cespit may take a few days to open up fully. MINE opened up within 1 hour of putting it in the water after I got it from UPS. 2. Mine is under a sunpod 150 hqi. 14k bulb. Its on the sandbed. The guy who I got my frag from had his also on the sandbed under 400 watters I think. He had it more in the corner so it got a bit of light but not too much. I'm not sure how the cespit will do if you put it high up on the rock work. Might melt? I've got medium flow on the cesp. I see its tentacles swaying back and forth. Definitely don't want a powerhead directly blasting at it. Too little flow and its body may collapse. You don't need to feed it at all. It gets everything from your lights. Mike |
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#52
07/26/2007, 11:50 PM
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more eye candy
These were taken at a shop in town that is growing them like a weed.
[IMG]  [/IMG]He is going to let me bring my camara in to get some views from the top which you won't believe the differance in color, it looks turquoise from the top. Here is the piece I got a while back. [IMG]  [/IMG]
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#54
07/27/2007, 07:45 PM
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The store is using 250W DE HQI Pheonix bulbs. I asked about the glitter, He says his calcium/magnesium is low right now but when it gets back up the scerlites will show up more.
I bought mine for $50 (bottom pic) I know he gets more than that, They are trying to sell on e-bay but can't grow it fast enough. They also grow alot of other corals but this is my fav. The've got a tank of Neon Green Toadys, Bali Xenia and a bunch of Montiporas that they are not selling yet. Supermans,Rainbow, Sunsets, Lavender polyp Setosa all of which I am waiting in line for. I'd post there web site but I don't think we are allowed to do that. I noticed you are in CA, they have a big poster in the store advertising Reef A Palooza, I know they are attending that, maybe you can hunt them down. |
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#57
08/03/2007, 04:44 PM
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without and with flash
 
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#59
08/03/2007, 09:46 PM
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top down pic
here is a pic from the top of mine it's hard to see but you can see the glitter.
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#60
08/03/2007, 09:50 PM
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keithntracy,
looks like something is picking at the polyps. I think these corals are the hardest to capture in a picture. |
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#62
08/05/2007, 12:36 AM
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Thanks Mike, I think the tank is done killing things for now. I am doing a 25% water change tomorrow with instant ocean salt (instead of oceanic). Hopefully that will change whatever caused the recession and hopefully start to bring my CA and dKH back down to their proper levels. I think I'm going to sell my large cesp to a friend to make room for a Rhyzo.
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#63
08/05/2007, 07:32 AM
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 Here is my BLUE pulsing xenia 
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#65
08/06/2007, 08:52 PM
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hey Phillip very nice looking Cespitularia , i have been watching the Cespitularia @ work and it does pulse, it is just a different type of movement , Xenia has a twisting pulse and the end of Cespitularia polyps sort of role in on the center , if that makes any sense. it is amazing how fast that stuff is growing ,like doubled it's size in the last 2 months .
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#67
08/06/2007, 09:03 PM
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The first pic is Cespitularia the secound is a pulsing blue xenia.
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#69
08/06/2007, 09:42 PM
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yeah i am sure , we turned off the pumps and it was doing something by itself. what kind of lights are you using mikekman? i have 2 x 250 hqi and 4 x 65 over my tank and i dont see any movement on my cesp at home, but the cesp. at work it's under 1000 wt and 400 wt and it looks alot nicer and is growing like a weed ....
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#70
08/07/2007, 01:36 AM
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WOOT WOOT! Humanremainz, you are right about the pulsing type behavior on the cesp.
I stared at a few of mine and some did nothing. But I have a larger colony with more polyps and I did notice the pulsing type behavior. It does't pulse like the pom pom xenia. Its much different. I saw two different types of pulse: 1. The polyps are open and then all of a sudden they close gently. Not a tight close, then immediately open up. This happened a few times. 2. This is the one I saw the most. The polpys would close really fast and tight and twist and recede. Then untwist open really quickly. I would say in one minute, one of my colonies did it like 8 times. My larger colony did the pulsing behaviors. My smaller colonies may have done it like once every few minutes but the larger colonies polyps would do it every 10 seconds or so. Wow, learn new things all the time. If I get to borrow a camera or buy my own (been borrowing), I will try and record it and show it to others but definitely you are correct, the cesp does pulse in its own weird way unlike the pulsing like a pom pom xenia. Good eye! |
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08/07/2007, 03:19 AM
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08/07/2007, 07:22 AM
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mikeman,
mine are under 250W DE HQI Phoenix. mine do open and close on occasion, not like reg. xenia though. |
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#73
08/07/2007, 07:31 AM
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The Lighting is natural sun light. They are in my greenhouse.
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#74
08/07/2007, 10:08 AM
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I think if Eric Borneman revises his coral book, he can put "individual on Reefcentral have reported a pulsing behavior from the cespitularia"
  I've got mine under a stock 14k that comes with the sunpod. I'm going to get a Phoenix 14k sometime and show new pics. |
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#75
08/08/2007, 07:42 AM
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If I have time today I will take a few more photos of the blue pulsing xenia.
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