Interrupting our regularly scheduled program

[VaBusa]

I've been putting together a presentation for some kids at camp...trying to teach them all about reef tanks...

I found some incredible pics...thought I'd share...

Several pics to follow...be patient, I'm slow!

Some green star polyps...beautiful, but they WILL take over your tank...I know!

 

[VaBusa]

Most colorful coral I've ever seen...this stuff grows all over my tank, but not this brilliant!

 

[VaBusa]

This is more like what I have growing freely...still pretty, but I'd rather have some of that up there!

 

[VaBusa]

Very pretty...

 

[VaBusa]

This is called frogspawn...easy to maintain and comes in all colors...

 

[VaBusa]

Hammer coral; also relatively easy to maintain...

 

[thesnake]

beautiful

 

[VaBusa]

Another variation of hammer coral...

 

[VaBusa]

Some of the easiest corals to maintain, and some of the cheapest and most prolific!! Yeah, that's what I like!

Mushroom corals...

 

[VaBusa]

...more 'shrooms...

 

[VaBusa]

A clam...guy I buy coral/supplies from had a clam that was about 10 years old...it was about the size of a football and cost thousands...

 

[VaBusa]

...another clam...beautiful...

 

[VaBusa]

One of the most expensive fish you can buy for your tank...can't have him with corals though; he eats 'em!

A Picasso Trigger fish

 

[VaBusa]

...this guy eats coral too...

A ***** Trigger...

 

[VaBusa]

Moorish Idol...very beautiful, especially when seen in groups of a hundred or more...they're not very good tank fish; hard to keep alive because of a more specialized diet...

 

[VaBusa]

One of my favorite fish...can't have him in the tank either...he pulverizes coral!

Whenever we get in the water in the Keys, you can hear them by the dozens, munching on coral...

 

[VaBusa]

A juvenile French Angel...

 

[BigBSBusa]

Very nice pics, Michelle! Lot different from the normal ones that we see. Lots of aquatic posts this week!

 

[VaBusa]

A harlequin shrimp...

 

[VaBusa]

An emerald crab...I bought 1/2 dozen of these and never saw them again...I think another BIGGER guy got 'em...