Anybody have an Idaho grape monti cap...

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tizzo

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that's actually purple??
Mine is brown.
I wanna know where a nice purple one is kept in the tank. High or low?
I know monti caps don't have much polyp extension very high up, so I put mine low, but I wonder if it needs higher light.
 

gatorwpb

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here you go Tizzo!
Mine actually started super dark purple and lightened up some because it was under less intense lighting when I got it. its high up under my 2x150w 10k aqualine abs.
 
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tizzo

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Wow! That's beautiful! I thought it was the polyps that were supposed to be purple but it seems yours is all purple. Now I wonder if I got stuck with a brown monti.

OK then, up high it goes...
 

gatorwpb

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the idaho grape is purple with blue polyps. its tough to tell in this pic, but the polyps are blue.
its in a high light high flow area.
 
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tizzo

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Originally Posted by GatorWPB
http:///forum/post/2686101
if yours doesnt color up... (hint hint) mine might be ready for fragging in the near future...

Oooohhh, and your in my state!! You lemme know when it needs a fraggin!!

I'm gonna post a pic of it tomorrow... I'll see if I can get the polyps on film.
This is frustrating.

But I take pleasure in knowing that I didn't pay for it.
 
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tizzo

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Originally Posted by GrouperGenius
http:///forum/post/2686118
How do you manage that???
Wish I was a Blonde.


Well you got half of it!! It was a trade, I think. Oh yeah, a pocillopora trade. Anyway, is YOURS coloring up Grouper?
 

groupergenius

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Originally Posted by Tizzo
http:///forum/post/2686595
Well you got half of it!! It was a trade, I think. Oh yeah, a pocillopora trade. Anyway, is YOURS coloring up Grouper?
Unfortunately....no. It fell off the rockwork and under the rack.

I do have a good size green cap with purple rim I have to pick up this week.
 
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tizzo

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Originally Posted by GrouperGenius
http:///forum/post/2686750
Unfortunately....no. It fell off the rockwork and under the rack.

I do have a good size green cap with purple rim I have to pick up this week.

Can't your turkey baster it out? Ya know, blow it toward the edge then pick it up?
Green cap, purple rim? I bought one of those from john, had it 3 days then lost it behind my rockwork.

I looked and looked and looked... I can' find it.
 
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tizzo

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Originally Posted by rebelprettyboy
http:///forum/post/2686785
I have one im gettin rid of that looks exactly like Gators last pic. Well its gorwn a little but I got one!
Why are you getting rid of it?? Send it to me! I have a soft spot for the Monti caps.
 
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tizzo

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Here's my sad excuse for a grape.
This camera doesn't have good macro, but the color is pretty true...
 

gatorwpb

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Very nice Tizzo!! Its not so bad to have a poor colored free frag when you have that super bright green polyped one that is doing just fine...
But I wont mention that mine was free from xenia trade-ins... (oops
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I have one of those purple rimmed green ones and it is NICE! growing super fast!
 
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