Dendro and Mummy chalice ? Pics

I gotta mummy eye too, but yours is huge!!! I just gotta little piece on a disc. Mine is sitting 12" down, 4" from the center of a 20k 250watt mh, in med/high flow (4" to the side of dead center flow from mp40, about 8" from the pump.) Seems to be LOVING life, eyes were very underdeveloped, and are now getting quite large and has since laid down a bit of matrix all around.

I would keep the dendros on the floor, in med/low flow. Feed often. Are those fruitloop zoas there too? I got some of those as well lol

cya,
Andy

 

you paid 15 bucks for that mummy eye? I hate you. lol now the fruitloops have really come down in price. you can buy entire colonys of them for under 100 now days.

back on topic. I think you are on the right track with your coral placement. chalices prefer light and flow similar to that of favias and acans. nothing to direct or drastic but still enough to get what they need. i would leave it on the bottom or perhaps move it to the center area on the low area of rocks.

 

YOU PAID 15 BUCKS FOR THAT SIZE MUMMY EYE COLONY!? you're full of ****! Where did you get it from?

 

Yeah, I would keep him at least 12" from the water on the mummy eye. Chalices are all kind of different. I burnt the **** out of a few though, granted. But I really think the mummy is liking a little bit more light than most of my others. Green has remained the same color since I got it.

 

SONE and JOE aka greenonion and Slovan NO Brown Coral. I would love to see it it with out so much blue.  It looks like a miami hurricane to me in that picture

 

cherry coral, they will be at fall fest. that doesnt look like a mummy eye to me but i am no expert by any means.

 

or a bubble gum type of chalice ?

 

its not a mummy unless it is a emerald mummy and even then i do not think it is. couple examples of mummy eyes

http://www.cherrycorals.com/product.php?productid=5938&cat=19&page=1

http://www.cherrycorals.com/product.php?productid=6131&cat=19&page=1

http://captainscorals.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5&products_id=14

 

looks like pink mojhitos and if it is you got a great deal 1 year ago it was selling for $100 an eye

 

I do not think you paid too much or got taken. My guess is its a miami hurricane and worth more then you paid about 75 bucks for a frag that size. A mummy eye that size 150-200 conservatively

 

I would also say that it couldnt of been soan or joe since. They wouldnt of soild you that if it was anything other then what they said. There were a few vendors there that were though. had one guy try too sell me a hurricane chalice that size for 125 bucks calling it a my miami that goes anywhere from 300-700 an eye.

 

We weren't sure if our Dendro was going to make it home from MACNA since the guy who bagged it up for us dropped the bag, Dendro and all, on the floor just before handing it to us.  But after a day in our tank it opened and has been open probably +80% of the time whenever I look.
The Dendro is on the bottom of the tank at the opening of a cave (for shade) with moderate flow.  If it doesn't snag any food on it's own when I feed the fish, I hand-feed a very small piece of Brine Shrimp, Mysis Shrimp, or scallop.  Cyclopese will also get it, along with everything else in your tank ready to eat.

 

I got 2 dendros from Todd Cherry. Place low in tank/sandbed and moderate to a higher flow. They seem to be very picky on the flow so you may have to move it around until they open. They are non-photosynthetic but will tolerate some light. Placing in a cave/under an overhang is no problem for them...they just need flow and should eat daily ;-0)