Oh my, this one is pretty special

PedroYoung · Jan 8, 2022

I've had this guy for about 6.5 yrs, started as single polyp Acan Maxima from @CherryCorals . Just moved into my new tank from my 75 where it's been on the bottom. This is the first time I've had it mounted somewhat horizontal so I can shoot the entire colony. Some of these are a little blurry where I was taking from the side (glass on the new tank is THICK) Whew!!!

Took this one to give some context how it sits on the rockwork.

maxima-7 by Peter Young, on Flickr

And just roamed around on these.

maxima-6 by Peter Young, on Flickr

maxima-8 by Peter Young, on Flickr

maxima-9 by Peter Young, on Flickr

maxima-10 by Peter Young, on Flickr

Hope you enjoyed the show..

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JinkleTinkle · Jan 8, 2022

Beautiful pics! Can you tell me more about your camera set up? I have a Nikon D3500 and want to try and get pictures halfway as nice as yours.

MaxTremors · Jan 8, 2022

Pretty sure that’s a Micromussa pacifica. Everything I’ve read about them says that A. maxima only comes from a few places in the Middle East where corals have never been collected for aquaria. There’s a reefbuilders article about how most of the corals that are sold as A. maxima are really M. pacifica. I could be wrong, but it might be worth looking into.

maroun.c · Jan 9, 2022

Beautiful coral and shots as usual.

PedroYoung · Jan 9, 2022

JinkleTinkle said:
Beautiful pics! Can you tell me more about your camera set up? I have a Nikon D3500 and want to try and get pictures halfway as nice as yours.

I use a Canon T6i with a 100mm macro lens. I use lightroom for post processing to balance color. You can click on any of the pics and it will take you to the Flikr hosting which has all the camera settings etc for each shot.

PedroYoung · Jan 9, 2022

MaxTremors said:
Pretty sure that’s a Micromussa pacifica. Everything I’ve read about them says that A. maxima only comes from a few places in the Middle East where corals have never been collected for aquaria. There’s a reefbuilders article about how most of the corals that are sold as A. maxima are really M. pacifica. I could be wrong, but it might be worth looking into.

Not sure, don't really care all that much exactly what it is (although I've had lots of people ask me "what is that!!!"). I just go by what the seller calls it when they're a reputable seller. It's growth form is not really like a scolly, which I think is what the pacifica is now being used to describe. It throws new baby polyps out every once in a while. Here is the original shot from @CherryCorals when I first bought it back in 2015

aug116 by Peter Young, on Flickr

PedroYoung · Jan 9, 2022

Quick YouTube with polyplab lens for your review as well

KrisReef · Feb 8, 2022

PedroYoung said:
Not sure, don't really care all that much exactly what it is (although I've had lots of people ask me "what is that!!!"). I just go by what the seller calls it when they're a reputable seller. It's growth form is not really like a scolly, which I think is what the pacifica is now being used to describe. It throws new baby polyps out every once in a while. Here is the original shot from @CherryCorals when I first bought it back in 2015

aug116 by Peter Young, on Flickr

According to my calculations your coral needs to be fragged so you can stop me from coveting this by sending the frag that is needed?

You might spare my soul from eternal perdition?

( Thanks for posting this photo thread @PedroYoung ).

PedroYoung · Feb 8, 2022

KrisReef said:
According to my calculations your coral needs to be fragged so you can stop me from coveting this by sending the frag that is needed?

You might spare my soul from eternal perdition?

( Thanks for posting this photo thread @PedroYoung ).

Ha, sorry, he's taken sooooooo long to get here I couldn't imagine fragging. Check out what he looks like after eating.

Burp!! Acan Maxima after eating

This guy LOVES to eat. Looks so wild after eating too....... Before maxima-22 by Peter Young, on Flickr After (sorry for the reflection of the tripod, yuck), you can still see some drool on the right side haha maxima-26 by Peter Young, on Flickr maxima-25 by Peter Young, on Flickr P

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