therman's 12 year old SPS system...top down shot, starting to enjoy this tank again

[biecacka]

BC Battle de Fuego still in production though??


corey

 

[therman]

Yep! That is a thick stubby that has been adding mass forever haha. I do have a couple of other really beefy humilis I haven't posted yet either but are definitely able to be cut if those interest you.

 

[therman]

A few of my undocumented colonies were looking nice today while I was packing frags, so I finally got some halfway decent shots of them.

BC Money Comb/ Poison Idea

This is the only one of the myriad "Bali Shortcake" types I have grown (7+?) that has truly blue tips. Also has a great rich salmon pink base color

 

[therman]

Another oddball smoothie I've been sitting on for a while. It has longer, thinner branches than most. Kind of a lime green base color with blue growth tips and orange-brown corallites. It gets deeper, richer colors in my backup system where I dose nitrates, but I dont have it grown into a colony there yet. Hopefully I can update this with a better quality photo in the future.

FHC Sour Granny

 

[therman]

Another great coral that doesn't seem to be too common any more. Bright metallic green and red-orange base with yellow tips.

WWC King Fiji

 

[therman]

And an eternal classic that I've been fragging for a while now, but it is hard to capture the stunning pearlescent combo of blue, aqua, purple, and green in this day and age of blue shifted lighting. I tried and failed to grow this one many many times, and had a lot of fakes, but finally sourced the real deal from @jda a few years back. Absolutely gorgeous.

ORA Pearlberry

 

[Reefbuds]

Really cool oddball corals there. Simple, beautiful colors

 

[therman]

Really cool oddball corals there. Simple, beautiful colors

After being in the hobby for so long, I try to hang onto the stuff that is either unusual or the best examples of a "wave" of corals that get imported, and hoard it for posterity.

 

[BranchingHammer]

Beautiful, Tim!

 

[BriansBrain]

I’m looking forward to the frags I’m getting from you at the the LEAR swap!

 

[therman]

Here are a couple more that have evaded the camera up until now.

Acropora hoeksemai are awesome blue corals that I equate to long branching tenuis. I have two forms that have done really well for me the past couple of years. They seem to like plenty of PAR and flow and are thriving at a PAR of 400+ in my system

Copps Turquoise hoeksemai

and

Deep blue hoeksemai...honestly this one has looked bluer than Peng's HOTO in my system when I have had them side by side, but of course every system is different:

And here they are side by side for comparison.

 

[therman]

An unparalleled classic with a fair number of imposters floating around. In my experience the "true" one has a richer velvety turquoise color and grows into a "cushion" shaped colony kind of like a thick puffy table, sometimes with multiple levels. Most of the imposters grow upward into more of an angular bottlebrush form.

ORA Hawkins

 

[Cthulukelele]

An unparalleled classic with a fair number of imposters floating around. In my experience the "true" one has a richer velvety turquoise color and grows into a "cushion" shaped colony kind of like a thick puffy table, sometimes with multiple levels. Most of the imposters grow upward into more of an angular bottlebrush form.

ORA Hawkins

Breathtaking

 

[therman]

Apparently I am on a blue kick, here's another one. This one traces its lineage all the way back to Menard Villaber's legendary store called Reef Dweller in Chicago in the early 2000s. This shop was my first introduction to many of the truly wondrous and previously unseen Acropora that we had just learned about from the publication of Veron's 3 volume Corals of the World. Menard had all the good stuff!

Menard's Blue humilis

 

[spsick]

Here are a couple more that have evaded the camera up until now.

Acropora hoeksemai are awesome blue corals that I equate to long branching tenuis. I have two forms that have done really well for me the past couple of years. They seem to like plenty of PAR and flow and are thriving at a PAR of 400+ in my system

Copps Turquoise hoeksemai

and

Deep blue hoeksemai...honestly this one has looked bluer than Peng's HOTO in my system when I have had them side by side, but of course every system is different:

And here they are side by side for comparison.

I was actually just gonna message you yesterday asking about these!

Beautiful!

 

[therman]

I was actually just gonna message you yesterday asking about these!

Beautiful!

I'm just remembering, Dustin Dorton used to have one of these we called a "Deep Blue Selago" that he propagated out of the shop he worked at prior to going to ORA. That was quite the coveted coral back around the year 2000! I dont know how to tag him on R2R so he can chime in. Good times... I'm sure @Carlosreef remembers!

 

[Carlosreef]

I'm just remembering, Dustin Dorton used to have one of these we called a "Deep Blue Selago" that he propagated out of the shop he worked at prior to going to ORA. That was quite the coveted coral back around the year 2000! I dont know how to tag him on R2R so he can chime in. Good times... I'm sure @Carlosreef remembers!

HAHAHA, I do remember those days. I also remember many of the deep-water corals we all coveted.

 

[therman]

I also need to change the thread title...its more like 17 years old now haha

 

[therman]

HAHAHA, I do remember those days. I also remember many of the deep-water corals we all coveted.

I still covet most of them!

 

[minus9]

The hoke’s and humilis are pure fire!