Creating base for some coral gardens

[maxalmon]

I really hate the look of reef plugs and I've got some fragging projects revolving around "reef Gardens" so I decided to "kick'em up a notch". Standard Boston reef plugs and then I busted up an old, dead coral head and created the plugs below....Each plug will have several zoa's ov various colors along with some GSP, possibly some daisey polyps, pom pom zenia, who knows what I'll attach. I start fragging the corals a little alter and will post pics of the competed projects.......Next project is to slice open some LR and use that as the base instead of the Boston plugs

 

[nigerbang]

I just glue my frags to LR rubble...I like the way you did that though..Looks good..

 

[mace]

I like that also it looks cool

 

[brstwv]

Great idea

 

[reefkprz]

those are cute now you have a completely marketable product for the touristy/casual hobbyist.... "miniscape aquagardens" by max
your just pumping out ideas, I need to hang out at your house for a while and use your tile saw. for an eternity or so....

 

[maxalmon]

Originally Posted by reefkprZ
those are cute now you have a completely marketable product for the touristy/casual hobbyist.... "miniscape aquagardens" by max
your just pumping out ideas, I need to hang out at your house for a while and use your tile saw. for an eternity or so....

Thanks, yeah, I kinda get bored with doing things the normal way......I just finished 5 of the gardens, fragged some ultra cool colored zoa's (i've given up on zoa names) added some clove, GSP, zenia and anything else that wasn't faster than my xacto knife....

 

[maxalmon]

Next project is to frag some bright orange monti onto one of these gardens. Will look very cool when totally encrusted, also going to do some lime green hydnophora....Lights on the new tank really mes with my camera's colors, bet 1st pic is of some zoa's that I fragged onto the gardens...I've only had the frag tank going for less than a week and it's already full...

 

[reefkprz]

your frag tank is looking good Max. this is giving me Ideas, tonga branch rock pin together an arch with a wide base then smother it in zoas or and encrusting monti. unfortunatly I have no tonga branch, and I'm definatly not ordering any more rock right now I think I have too much.

 

[maxalmon]

Above pic, on the far left hand side you see a huge piece of branching coral thats about 14" tall and 10" wide, it's a project that I started about a month ago, it's going to become totally encrusted with zoa's, I'll take some close up pics. The zoa's love to grow on old coral...In the middle of the tank you see a fan shaped piece of old coral that I'm encrusting with lime green hydnophora, again a project that I started about a month ago and I already have some incredible grown from all the frags that I glued to the coral..

 

[maxalmon]

Here are some pics of the huge frag projects, just noticed a bubble algae, I'll remove that little pest in a few minutes...Most of the zoa frags started out as 2-3 polyps, the hydnophora's started out as .25" TINY frags that have now grown into .75