sunday evening 6 pack including a new yellow/purple monti

[murph145]

heres a few pics i took tonight....
i got a new yellow base with purple polyps monti today its about 4 inches good size piece, then i got some kind of acro frag white with blue tips hard to tell with the photo though
hope u like the pics

 

[murph145]

heres 2 more i guess this makes a 7 pack hmmm well ok lol

 

[bigarn]

Looks great Murph .... real nice colors you have going on there.

 

[bonebrake]

NICE!

 

[viper_930]

Nice pics!
The yellow/purple monti looks like a M. peltiformis.

 

[murph145]

thanks everyone....
i went to a new LFS today that had a grand opening and i got the monti and the other sps coral they had a pretty good selection and some nice clams too but i already have to clams so i passed on those....

 

[murph145]

thanks viper how did u know thats what it is?
how hardy are they this is my first encrusting monti

 

[murph145]

2 more pics... just tryin to see how they turn out its hard to get a good pic of the monti cuz of the lights

 

[viper_930]

I can recognize it after dozens of hours spent looking at SPS pics. From what I've seen in person, they can bleach easily so try not to change its lighting too often.

 

[murph145]

wow i hope it doesnt bleach....
i got it from an LFS runnin 20K bulbs about 3 feet above they were 400W now hes in my tank under 250W 20K DE's but hes not directly under the brightest area more off to the side looks to be about the same as he was under in the LFS

 

[dcbball]

hey murpph was the place called vivid.. if so my buddy who just quit worrking at the fish store im at to go work there..

 

[murph145]

yeah i went to the store opening today to see what they have ... they got some nice clams there i kinda wanted another one

kinda a small store but seems like a nice set up

 

[dcbball]

yea my buddy who started working there said it was a really nice store with some cool set-ups... he said it was way better than the place i work at..

 

[murph145]

cool deal yeah im sure ill be going back there to get some more acros of different sorts they said they should be getting alot more in this week so ill have to go check it out....
i like there main coral display kind of a cool set up how the water flows back to a tank above and the gravity pushes it back to the display tanks below
seems like they have some decent prices on things too

 

[buzzword]

Murph I agree with Viper it is a M. peltiformis, I know because I have one in my reef as well. Love it to, one of the wifes favorites. Good luck with it. Mine has been doing great for about 2 months.

 

[fishamajig]

these must be going around or something

 

[fishamajig]

my camera really sucks

 

[murph145]

hey did u come all the way out here to the west coast to get yours too lol....
yeah they must be a popular thing then if u got one way out there too lol.....

 

[viper_930]

fishamajig, yours actually looks like a M. crassituberculata. From the pic it looks like it's plating rather than encrusting.

 

[fishamajig]

thanks for the i.d.
i got it at one of the local fish stores for like 25 bucks, I thought it was a nice find.