samhain growth rate

jessp · Sep 24, 2007

anyone have experience w/ happy samhain's? I just wanted some advice regarding lighting and flow. I heard the growth rate is very slow, any input on that as well is appreciated. I got a colony of a couple hundred polyps, which is still small regarding polyp count.

i'll post pics in an hour when everything is opened up. they are bright red w/ bright green mouth and tiny tiny polyps.

thanks,
jess

revhtree · Sep 24, 2007

Cool cant wait for a shot of that!

jessp · Sep 24, 2007

my wife has the cam at work, but i made sure to put the piece right in front of glass and cleaned the glass too. it is a wild colony because it has a bit of sponge and algae growth on it. but the hermits seem to be cleaning it up and i did a good dip. it looked really cool in the lfs.

revhtree · Sep 24, 2007

Can't wait!

Azurel · Sep 24, 2007

Sounds cool......The frag that I have which caused me to name them has grown very slow. But when I frag off a polyp or 2 which isn't easy mind you cause of the type of polyp and the growth pattern they tend to grow very fast and then slow down. My main frag right now hasn't opened in 5 days and I am not sure what is going on with it. The frags I have of it other then the main frag are all opened up....? They do grow very slow.....Can't wait to see a large rock of them.....

jessp · Sep 24, 2007

i gotta hurry up my wife, w/o her finding out i bought more coral lol.

jessp · Sep 24, 2007

ok here are some bac pics about 75% of the polyps are open. they mouths look more white in these pics than they actually are. They also look more orange than red. also the back side of the rock has a lot of polyps which i could not get in the pics.

lmk what you think.

fishes2889 · Sep 24, 2007

oh ****!!! thats an awesome rock.....

Azurel · Sep 24, 2007

Yup that's them......If your ever interested in a trade for a few polyps let me know.....I like to have back ups and cannot find them anywhere local......Mine are more orange then red but in my pics the come out red then orange and the mouths are a green/white color.....The camera does make them look a bit differant but those are them for sure....

jessp · Sep 24, 2007

the store had two other rocks, i should probably buy them as well. the other rock was solid red the other was orange w/ colored mouths but looked to have a fungus.

it looks beat up right now but i'm pretty good at trimming off the bad stuff and keeping things clean.

Azurel · Sep 24, 2007

YEa that sound like the way the main rock my original frag came from looked. It had about 200 polyps on it and was quickly being wiped out by something. I got a 10-15 polyp frag that had fallen off the main rock and wasn't sick......Great pick up....

jessp · Sep 24, 2007

i'm always interested in trades, considering i just got these let me leave em alone for a couple weeks and see how things pan out. I chunked off a huge part of the rock that had a lot of sponge growth and other stuff i could not identify. I actually got stung by something probably a bristle worm because i had a small fiberglass splinter. I also dipped the rock w/ revive coral cleaner from two little fishes. Julian Sprung gave me a couple bottles are out last frag swap and it works pretty well.

If the other rock at the store on friday i'm gonna buy it.

revhtree · Sep 24, 2007

Sweetness!

jessp · Sep 24, 2007

i'll be making some frag packs to sell soon to save for wifes bday, i'll make sure to include a frag of these. i'll also frag them for others as single pieces.

korndogg091 · Sep 24, 2007

how much do those go for?

Kigs! · Sep 24, 2007

they melted away on me everytime i got a frag...never seen such sensitive zoanthids. looks like you got a real nice sized colony, just be careful when fragging them. since they are so small, it'd probably be best to frag the LR around the polyps, and try avoiding any direct cuts on the flesh as possible

Azurel · Sep 24, 2007

kigs said:
they melted away on me everytime i got a frag...never seen such sensitive zoanthids. looks like you got a real nice sized colony, just be careful when fragging them. since they are so small, it'd probably be best to frag the LR around the polyps, and try avoiding any direct cuts on the flesh as possible

You don't know how much truth there is in that statement......I have lost 3-4 small frags because they are just so tight together and you really can't get under them like normal zoanthids. Fragging the rock is the only way to go...

THE BEAUT · Sep 25, 2007

Jess be careful fragging them. I had a rock literally covered in them. I made a few frags for friends on here and i eventually lost my whole colony.

jessp · Sep 26, 2007

i did break off a couple small pieces of about 12-15 polyps each while cleaning up the rock. there is a type of sponge that is like fiberglass that i removed and some other crusty looking stuff. the colony is still opening but there is still a bout 15% that are not opening. so far the frags have opened but we will see how long that will last.