Posts from ‘March, 2010’

Pictured is a nice little colony of green and red Zoanthids. These Zoas have a red center with a slight amount of purple/blue surrounding that center. The skirt on these polyps are a bright green. I’m not sure of their commercial name, but they certainly look good.

The Bartlett’s Anthias, much like most Anthias, can be a gorgeous shoaling fish in a large reef aquarium. These fish require a mixed diet consisting of various crustacean-based items like Mysis Shrimp, enriched Brine Shrimp, Cyclopeeze, etc. The Bartlett’s Anthias will also do well if fed multiple times per day.

The Blue Spotted Boxfish is quite the oddball. It, like other boxfish, has a very unusual shape and swims in a funny way. But this particular oddball really caught my eye. It is a vibrant blue with white and yellow dots. The top, or dorsal portion, of the fish reminds of a Clown Trigger, but [...]

This has got to be one of my favorite coral pictures. This is a photo of a neon green Torch coral with fairly long polyps. These corals are very similar to Frogspawn and Hammer corals, only differing in the shape and length of their polyps.

When I originally stumbled across this coral I was quite impressed. Most Duncan corals come in the standard green, but as you can tell from the picture above, this coral is purple with a slight bit of green on the tips. Despite the drastic color differences between green and purple individuals, there is only one [...]

I know we already posted a picture of a Neon Green Candy Cane, but I couldn’t resist posting this one as well. This candy cane is a much larger colony than the one we previously discussed. It is also a more neon color. And as with other LPS, these corals have large fleshy polyps covering [...]

Frogspawn corals, much like hammer and torch corals, have a hard calcium skeleton adorned with huge fleshy polyps. The polyps of the frogspawn very easily resemble their namesake…the spawn of frogs, or frog eggs. If you’ve even been in/near a pond in springtime, you’d know what I’m talking about.

Zoanthids are very pretty and very easy to care for. These zoas are a deep blue with a slightly red/black skirt surrounding the central disk. Oftentimes they are misidentified as Tubb’s Blue Zoanthids, which they are not. The Tubb’s Blues are a lighter blue.

This blue Acropora coral is positively glowing due to the aquarium being treated with ZEOvit products. This filtration and additive based system allows corals to achieve a more “natural” color and display extended polyps.

Pictured above is a solid red Cynaria, or Doughnut coral. These are fairly similar to Scolymias, but are a lot more fleshy.