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11/27/2007, 10:02 PM
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I slowly watched two Becker Torts SLOWLY over the summer and when my "troubles" first started a Tubs Horrida I had grew from a nub to a 3" plus multibranch piece fillet in a few short days.
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11/27/2007, 10:08 PM
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Mine was from a few months after this picture:
 To this picture a couple of months after the loss with new frags in place:  Some of favorites were: 5 different Torts.....especially my ORA cali and my Oregon 3 Garf bonzai colonies A huge Mike Palletta blue colony My PM colony over 30 colonies in all. Chris
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11/28/2007, 01:49 PM
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This is a good thread. We can call commiserate together. All reeferes lose corals, but I think for us SPS keepers, the sting is worse. Of all the time, money and sacrifice we invest into getting our slow growing stiff pretty stick to mature, when one actually dies...
Anyway, here's my pride and joy. I grew this Tyree Purple Monster from a quarter inch nub into this:     Losing this coral actually made me take a break from the hobby.
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11/28/2007, 01:52 PM
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dont have a colony shot of this one.. but here is an up-close of a lime w/ purple polyp nasuta that is now gone
 gone too  yellow tort no more (austera)  and then i could go on and on and on with pics of frags i lost.... and they were all lost to a common cause that started in my tank feb 07 and still affects my tank to this day (well... actually, i have been a record 3wks w/o signs of new receded areas)
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11/28/2007, 02:39 PM
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I lost a large wild colony of A. Secale, tricolor+ with purple and cyan blue glowing polyps. (I'll see if I can dig up a pic) Never seen anything like it since or before. Its' skeleton sits on my balcony as a sad reminder. I always wish that at least a frag could have been saved. Good reason to share frags of beloved corals with reefer friends.
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11/28/2007, 02:51 PM
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Lost this little pokerstar. Fell into a rainbow micro and they both nuked each other.
 Managed to save a single polyp of it to regrow.  Then my chiller failed on me a couple of weeks after and I totally lost it...
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11/28/2007, 03:33 PM
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11/28/2007, 04:52 PM
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I lost these recently over the past few months. I had them for quite a while...it sucks!
  
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11/28/2007, 07:57 PM
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some really nice corals have been lost it does suck for sure i couldnt imagine losing the ones i see here i thought my 2 that were hard hitters were nice but man some insane corals
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11/29/2007, 01:28 AM
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When you get something unique, give a frag to a friend shortly after you get it or after it colors up and then if you lose your colony hopefully your friend will be nice enough to give you a frag back.
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11/29/2007, 02:39 AM
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Wow you guys those could make a guy cry. I've lost quite a few nice corals over the years as well but can't find any decent pictures. Here is a piece I lost about a year ago when I had some big problems with my system. It started as a 3/4" frag I bought through Ulimate frags as a tri-colour. It died about the time it really started to show some potential.
 
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11/29/2007, 06:04 AM
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11/29/2007, 06:50 PM
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Boy Great/Horrible thread.
This still sucks  and still bummed about this (even though it was small)  lost this with the AEFW incident (still have NO idea how I ended up with them after not putting anything in the tank for 8 months - 1 year.  I too make it a point to try to give away as many frags as I can. I have started a program with my local MAS that actively promotes this. Any of you guys end up in Dallas/Fort Worth for business etc, PM me. |
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