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Topic: Fungia from the seminar
Posted By: Sarnack
Subject: Fungia from the seminar
Date Posted: March 13 2003 at 12:29am

I was just wondering if anyone is optimistic about their Fungia (Long tentacle plate, whatever you want to call it) coral surviving from the seminar.  Danny got a frag and it is just not looking like it will make it.




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Posted By: rfoote
Date Posted: March 13 2003 at 5:13am
Mine isn't looking too hot - not very optimistic!


Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: March 13 2003 at 7:51am

Mine looks fine.   Tentacles only extended about an inch, but full and not flaccid.

(I'll take a picture and post it when I get home tonight so we can compare...maybe my good is you're bad)



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Posted By: Kahuna
Date Posted: March 13 2003 at 8:04am
It looks like I'll have to bury mine today. The rest of the frags look great though.

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Posted By: John Fletcher
Date Posted: March 13 2003 at 8:25am

The only thing I know, is that they take along time to recover.  Don't mess with it, leave it in the spot you put it in the tank.  It should be in the bottom on the sand, in a low to medium current.  The skin will regrow around the skelrton.  Once you can see a mouth, then you can start to feed it.  I hope they all make it.

jOHN fLETCHER "Reefaquarist"



Posted By: rfoote
Date Posted: March 13 2003 at 8:56am
Ok I'll give it some time.  My wife actually said during the day it is looking pretty good - I only have seen it at night.


Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: March 13 2003 at 5:36pm

Ok, here's a picture of mine as of 3/13/03 6pm.

And since I had the camera out...how 'bout a "how many corals can I get in one shot" picture :).  The woods polyp (I think it's woods polyp, could someone id it for me, bottom in front of the frogspawn) just appeared out of nowhere .



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Posted By: Sarnack
Date Posted: March 13 2003 at 8:42pm

Wow, that Fungia is doing much better than I expected after seeing Danny's poor specimen.  Thanks for all the responses and thanks for taking the time to post the pics.

I think that is woods polyps (Tubipora) if it has a redish tube then I would be more sure.  What is that coral in the center? 



Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: March 13 2003 at 9:01pm
Quote: Originally posted by Sarnack on 13 March 2003

I think that is woods polyps (Tubipora) if it has a redish tube then I would be more sure.  What is that coral in the center? 


The tube is about the same color as the stalk on the zenia next to it.  It started with just one tube, now there's about 4 - 5 small tubes coming up around it.

The one in the middle is a blastamosa.



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Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: March 14 2003 at 7:17am
That looks like a woods polyp to me.......(like I wouldn't know 'cause we've had them for years!) . Is this a small picture? Is that a really small starfish? And what is the green coral? Suzy

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Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: March 14 2003 at 7:34am
Quote: Originally posted by Suzy on 14 March 2003
That looks like a woods polyp to me.......(like I wouldn't know 'cause we've had them for years!) . Is this a small picture? Is that a really small starfish? And what is the green coral? Suzy

It is a small 1.5 inch star (he spends half his time trying to "go over the fence" and the other half submerged in the sand).  The green coral just behind the single woods polyp(?) is frogspawn.

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Posted By: John Fletcher
Date Posted: March 14 2003 at 8:22am

Jon,

   Your tank looks real nice.  The fungia is doing real well.  The growth of the tissue is great.

 

John Fletcher "Reefaquarist"



Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: March 14 2003 at 9:18am
Thanks,Jon. I 'm thinking I have been misinformed about frogspawn.I was told that it is somewhat aggressive,and it stings it's neighbors.It doesn't appear to be a trouble maker in your set-up.I put ours in the sand to keep it outta trouble!Maybe I can find a better place for it....Thanks,Suzy

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Posted By: John Fletcher
Date Posted: March 14 2003 at 9:29am

Suzy,

The Frogspawn is rather aggressive.  I had one in my tank and the devil would release a tenicle and sting my acro's.  I got rid of of the next day.

 

John Fletcher "ReefAquarist"



Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: March 14 2003 at 9:42am

Sarnak et al,

Tubipora?  Is that what Wood's Polyps are?  (I sense a long discussion ahead)

Adam



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Posted By: Jake Pehrson
Date Posted: March 14 2003 at 10:05am
Anthelia.  I believe the "woods polyps" are Giant Anthelia.  Everywhere else except utah and idaho woods polyps are a brown button polyp.  Not what I believe are Anthelia.

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Posted By: sjlopez39
Date Posted: March 14 2003 at 10:46am
Nice tank Jon.  The woods polyps are one of my favorites cuz there so relaxing to watch when ruffled by the water motion in the tank. 

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Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: March 14 2003 at 10:49am

I don't know about Tubipora, mine do not have calcerous tubes and the pictures of tubipora I've seen are much nicer looking (imo) then the stuff I have.  The only hit I got for woods polyp was at garf.org, they call it Woods Polyp (Anthelia sp.). Mine does look like anthelia, though.

 



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Posted By: Sarnack
Date Posted: March 14 2003 at 12:36pm
Maybe the woods polyps I got from Suzy are just growing on the skeleton of an old Tubipora.  This would explain my confusion...  I'll check it out tonight when I frag it.


Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: March 14 2003 at 2:01pm

Jon Finch is correct. The original colonies of woods polyps (Anthellia sp.)were given to myself and Tim Weidauer back in 1996 by LeRoy Headlee of GARF. Since then this weed, mostly frags of these original colonies, has infested almost every WMAS aquarium I can think of.

LeRoy and his wife, Sally Jo are great supporters of the WMAS, but they have drastically curtailed their hobby activities because of medical reasons. We used to take regular trips to Boise to "oooh and aaah" the beautiful and numerous tanks (50+) of coral that he grew with ease and abandon.

LeRoy and Sally Jo are truly great pioneers in this hobby; the kind of people that Adam speaks of in his reef.org editorial. It was a 1995 article in the SeaScope regarding live rock aquaculture that caught my eye and resulted in a long relationship with them.

We even saved 10,000+ crabs and snails that were caught in a winter storm auto accident on their way through Provo from Baja Mexico to Boise. In 1996 LeRoy was a guest speaker and amazed us with his instruction on how to frag a mushroom leather.

GARF Reef Janitors saved my reef http://www.garf.org/ugly.html">www.garf.org/ugly.html. It's sad that we cannot take trips there as a club. Actually, I wonder if it's time to try another request?

Reminiscing,  Mark



Posted By: John Fletcher
Date Posted: March 14 2003 at 2:08pm

Mark, I remember you trying to get us a tour.  That would be great if we could go as a group and have a tour of their facility.  I know I would sign up.

 

John Fletcher "ReefAquarist"



Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: March 14 2003 at 2:17pm

I second what John says.  I'd definately be interested in making the trip to boise.

(Anyone try the garf grunge?)



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Posted By: Sarnack
Date Posted: March 14 2003 at 2:51pm

I would go on that trip.

 

Funny how threads on this board are always hijacked.  Don't get me wrong I am not complaining.  Jessica's tread "leather coral" mutated into aiptasia control.  Here we have gone from Fungia to Coral ID to a fieldtrip.  The only reason I don't like this is when you are trying to find info later or you don't read every post you rely on the subject of the thread.  So maybe we should just copy the last post that is going to start a new discussion and start it with an appropriate subject description?

 



Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: March 14 2003 at 10:53pm

Please do not contact GARF to set up a visit.  Please do contact them if you are looking to buy things.   

I do stay in contact, and if a visit were appropriate I would set it up.  This isn't the best of ideas.  I do have pictures, and video, and we recently bought the GARF DVD.  But a visit is not a good idea.  This is an iffy situation, but I will handle it.

Adam 



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Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: March 21 2003 at 9:07pm

Well, my fungia is not looking very good now.  Just in the last couple days it's really taken a turn for the worse.

How's everyone elses?

 



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Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: March 21 2003 at 9:23pm

jfinch asked about GARF Grunge and when we saw each other at the LFS yesterday, I forgot to tell about my full opinion.

Grunge is great! The idea is to add variety. One of the funnest ways to do this is with our own grunge! Trade sand with others.

Also, In case you didn't know, one of the things GARF does is crush live rock and add it to aragonite substrate to make Grunge which sits in growing tanks waiting for your order.



Posted By: Danny Lueck
Date Posted: March 22 2003 at 3:42pm
Mine died :-(

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Posted By: Sarnack
Date Posted: March 23 2003 at 7:26pm
Yes you were all right (like there was any doubt?)  The pictured coral in question is Anthelia.  Mine is growing on the skeleton of an old Tubipora so I was confused. 


Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: April 24 2003 at 10:40pm

Well, my fungia is long gone.  Did anyone's frag survive?  Can fungia be fragged or is this a coral we shouldn't be breaking up?



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Posted By: rfoote
Date Posted: April 25 2003 at 6:41am
Mine is gone as well.


Posted By: Weimers
Date Posted: January 20 2004 at 7:59pm

I wanted to let you know that I think our pink bird's nest coral might be all right after all!  A few days ago, we noticed tiny pink veins, but didn't think that meant much.  Today, one piece has about 5 veins, and 2 little pink pores.  This is the coral that peeled on the morning after we brought it home.  The second piece only has about 3 veins, and one pink pore.  But it's a very small fragment.  I thought it might not hurt to leave it alone and give it lots of our good lights.  The only piece that hasn't shown life is our leather frag.  I got the last piece of it, so it's the base.  But that means we've got a very happy gorgonia, (thank you Mark!) and two glowy green things that I haven't memorized the name of yet.  I hereby promise that we'll get properly edjumicated on corals.  Our little grey blobby corals came free of their rock, so we're still hunting for them.  Thanks for a great meeting!

Renee



Posted By: Marcus
Date Posted: January 20 2004 at 8:03pm

That's great news!  How's the tank running?




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