Move over Krytonite candy cane, here comes the brightest neon green octo-spawn

[dz6t]

This thing is insanely bright, it make other coral look pale.
It is about 6 inch big despite the skeleton is only about 1.5 inch.

 

[cstmpprl]

WOW, that is beautiful

 

[dz6t]

It is eye catching, I can see it from across the room...err...outside of my windows

 

[frank180reef]

It's hard to keep....

 

[Frag Freaks]

It's hard to keep....

I suppose it depends on if its wild collected or aquacultured. Wild collected euphyllia in general I have never seen a good survival rate, but if that was grown from an existing colony there should be no reason why it would be hard to keep.

 

[s_kelley]

Wow that thing is impressive! If anyone can figure out how to keep it its Dong.
Get that thing growing out so you can share nice hardy frags!

 

[Coalminer]

This thing is insanely bright, it make other coral look pale.
It is about 6 inch big despite the skeleton is only about 1.5 inch.

My eyes hurt, but in a good way...

 

[dz6t]

It has been in captive for a long long time, first in NY city, then moved to MA, then moved to me.

 

[dz6t]

. Wild collected euphyllia in general I have never seen a good survival rate,.

Except some torch coral, Euphylia is among the hardest coral regardless captive grown or wild caught.

 

[dz6t]

By the way, what I get is a frag of frag of frag...hahaha

 

[Frag Freaks]

By the way, what I get is a frag of frag of frag...hahaha

That thing should do just fine then. I may want a frag of that when you have more.

 

[Frag Freaks]

Except some torch coral, Euphylia is among the hardest coral regardless captive grown or wild caught.

I have had excellent luck with captive grown stuff, the issue is its just such a slower grower its really tough to justify having space in frags tanks to do so. I have had a lot of issues with wild caught melting during shipping.

Say if I order 10 heads of a wild caught hammer, I easily lose 20-30% in shipping every time. Unfortunately it may be due to wholesales getting them and then turning them right around with a days time really stressing them out.

 

[dz6t]

Shipping hammer is hard due to their heads are easy to be damaged. I used to transport a large hammer colony up side down with their heads sitting on soft netting.

 

[Frag Freaks]

Shipping hammer is hard due to their heads are easy to be damaged. I used to transport a large hammer colony up side down with their heads sitting on soft netting.

+1 upside down is what we do as well.


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[frank180reef]

I suppose it depends on if its wild collected or aquacultured. Wild collected euphyllia in general I have never seen a good survival rate, but if that was grown from an existing colony there should be no reason why it would be hard to keep.

This isn't your typical euphylia....it's a wall ( I think from pic)

 

[Frag Freaks]

Haven't seen a difference between survivability rate during shipping regardless if its a wall or branching.

Thats just my personal experience though.

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[reefstarter]

I have heard that wall hammers are hard to keep . branching is easier . or was it other way around lol

 

[jokersplayground]

When i worked for tropic isle i was the one to unload the coral inspect them and so on. What i found was that the walls die alot easier than branching. It was also very rare for them to get them in dead. There guy shipped them very well.

 

[dz6t]

That is due to if one head of branching frospawn is infected, the rest can still live, the tissue of wall fragspawn is all connected as one unit.

 

[Frag Freaks]

That is due to if one head of branching frospawn is infected, the rest can still live, the tissue of wall fragspawn is all connected as one unit.

Dong,

Occasionally on branching hammer one gets the dreaded brown jelly disease. Ever notice that it spreads to the remaining colony if that branch is not removed fast enough? Its almost like a chain reaction.

If so is there any type of chemical explanation to that?


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