Jake, you always make me appreciate corals in ways i never thought i would. I could seriously listen to you talk about every coral you have all day. Thank you for all you do!
Hey Jake I have one of those torch spawns, super long tentacles and it loves lots of flow. Mine has emerald green stems with lighter green tips and bright green stripes on the base around the mouth. Also has a strong feeding response that far exceeds other Euphyllia. I absolutely love this coral for its uniqueness and intense colour. Glad you featured one here!
I just did a few tweaks to my system and EVERYTHING looks great. I started with boosting ph, went from 7.6 peak to 8.4 peak. I first did that by opening windows and making a hole for my skimmer to bring in outside air. Now I'm using a CO2 scrubber. I also won an xr30 (thank again Jake) and that has helped immensely. I started dosing some trace elements. Lastly I have been tweeking the doser schedule to have a great stable alk level. I dont have a specific coral that looks amazing because now they all are starting to shine. Don't watch my recent update video if you don't enjoy a blue lit tank lol
Yessir!!! I’m really in love with my new Acropora Sarmentosa frag along with my Merulina Ampliata coral. I really love to follow the growth rate on my two Leptoseris corals.
I think another good, fast grower that I absolutely love and didn't think much of it at first, is the sundial porites that I won in a FMAS (florida marine aquarium society) that I'm pretty sure was from Joe Yaiullo. Mine grew all over the back glass very fast and developed a nice iridescence. The color looked like a beautiful white pearl color. I think it will really show off the beauty of the Christmas tree worms and I've never seen a healthy, flourishing coral that was truly an iridescent white. I've been out of the reefing game for the last 5 years because of constantly going to other countries for months at a time, but I always want to get another frag of that same sundial Monti to place on the bottom pane of glass to cover the entire bottom of a bare bottom tank. I also that about placing several different colors of cyphastrea to cover the bare bottom.
I was really hoping to see that massive rrc pink Cadillac colony you showcased a few years back in this video! That post and coral has motivated me to get a new tank up and running just to showcase it.
Some of my favorites are the ones with good stories behind them. Whether it is a stylophora that I brought back from the brink of death, a neon green sinularia I grew from a 1 inch frag to almost a foot, or my recent torch coral that has always been on my wish list since I started the hobby; they all have special sentimental value to me. Great video!
I Am ordering the JBJ 65G AIO Starter Kit - Aquarium & White Stand from premium aquatics this week. I had a 50 gallon fresh water tank in my 20s and always wanted a salt water tank. Have been watching your channel for a few weeks now and I think I am finally sold on setting one up. I wanted to thank you for the inspiration and for sharing your knowledge. I am so looking forward to setting this up. I think I am going to just do coral for a while before trying to get into adding fish. The little reef tank you set up was amazing. I would like a larger version on a huge wall in my living room that I have been struggling to decorate. Thanks again.
I have this black (I think it's dark blue) torch with the brightest pure yellow tips (plus it has a green mouth) - when I saw it I never had seen anything like it so I had to get it. I had no luck with them in the past but it's now 2 heads and is just amazing - I have an Echinata that is not doing anything ;( ... oh and the other corals I LOVE are my (fake) Kung Pao and my Crazy T Montis That Setosa looks like a crazy pink in the video to me... mine is orange - nice but that pink looks like an amazing raspberry and coconut gelato - YUMO! Thanks Jake for another great video
my favorite coral in my reef tank would have to be the arctic sunrise lobo I acquired last year. I am surprised you didn't mention your weeping willow leather coral... I fell in love with that coral ever since you did a video on maintenance of your 60 cube at your house.
Great video Jake. I am most excited about my 2 new Christmas tree worm rocks i just bought last week. Lots of worms on both. They each have different coloured parities corals, one is darker and an almost a reddish colour and the other lighter yellowish. Would be great if you can do an update vlog if the Christmas's tree worm rock tank.
I got myself a Cyphastrea meteor shower today! Been looking for quite some time in the vicinity of my town, so I'm very happy with that! :) Good video!
My all time bestest ever corals are two. Acropora efflorescens and poccillopora Eydouxi. A thick, pink colony on Eydouxi is a spectacular sight to behold and if any coral sparks thoughts of a coral reef more than a dinner plate colony of Efflo then ive never seen it. What a beautiful world we live in and what a blessed time to be alive that we can keep, observe and grow these absolute jewels of evolution.
After watching your video, I decided to grab one A speciosa for my tank. Anyway, your coral shots in videos and reef builder website are gorgeous. Do you have any videos sharing how you photographed your corals?
I have this Chalice I picked up from my LFS for cheap. It was pretty much straight purple and brown, but I figured why not? I have been target feeding it reef roids for a month now and I am getting notes of bright green and orange mixed on the edges and around mouths. I put it in a random spot out of the way but I just moved it to a prominent area right in front of the tank. Super excited to see where this goes!! 👀👀👀
I really love that your favourite corals are not hype pieces and have sentimental value. I have a pretty stock standard tangerine lepto that was one of my first and it actually came off the frag plug and lived all around the tank as a tiny chip, lived in the shade, survived tank crashes. Eventually I acknowledged it’s legendary status and glued it down to a rock and now it’s huge and I’m getting some kinda wild colour expression but I genuinely thinks awesome for its rocky style character (it’s not about how hard you can hit.....yadadadada)
Thanks for this video! I'm so fed up with all filters and so forth. I just got a hold of a Gorgonia ventalina. It's rather uncommon i Europe so I'm really happy!
I love blue stags. Wheter in the wild or at home. Thus the torts, blue slimers and any other blue stag always draw my attention. When I noticed my LFS had a blue slimer a yellow tip austera with blue body I jumped straight to them. Also I love micro Lords The first coral I managed To grow and that I had since I entered college.
I love your philosophy behind filming these! Show things the way we might see them. Also I've got to say that in terms of image quality no one does it like you do! What kind of camera are these videos filmed on? And do you have to move things closer to get things in focus or anything?
My favorite corals in my tank are definitely my colony of A. Anthoceris and A. Caroliniana, really looking for some A. Hoeksemai, A. Humilis, or A. Gomezi next!
I still remember the first Hoeksemai that was wait-listed on Phishy Business - I collected some in Australia and it's growing and spreading throughout my tanks now
11:17 Hey Jake, what are your additional observations in regards to the differences between this colony in the wild and in the aquarium? Only lighting or anything to do with water chemistry and flow? Very nice!!!! What are the water parameters? Thanks for the video!
I saw the video about the christmas tree rocks and the heavy feeding of that tank. How would that work if you place them in a "normal" reef tank? What I'm really asking I guess is how I can keep them 😊
Did you ever show us the scoly wall? I am wondering that the wall just made a "along the way" scene in your video. :-) I really enjoy my pink strain of acanthastrea bowerbanki. And I still wait for my symphyllia wilsoni, which I got recently. They suffer a lot and I put the coral under really low light for the beginning. But it seems that the wilsoni is stable an don't lose polyp tissue anymore. Greetings form Germany. Did you plan to come back to Nuremberg and visit the interzoo this year? (In reason of te corona issue, it may uncertain that they excute the exhibition.)
@JakeAdams What is the coral next to the Heavens Gate on the right at 19:00? looks like something I have but couldn't identify it properly. The stuff I've always loved were my Red Cynarina and a Large green Indophyllia as far as LPS goes. I'm still a stick head to heart so my favorite all time has been the classic ORA Red Planet. I had to cut it down from 18"x13"x10" last summer to re aquascape my 125g since it was coming out of the top of the water's surface.
Id so ask for a price on a few of those like frags but my coral buying is on hold since my dad has stage 4 cancer and he just had a couple strokes and seizure and now can't use his right side at all and I been taken care of things for him and moneys tight having kids and now dad being sick but would be sweet for some frags to fill my tank the rest of the way but I enjoy ur videos when they pop up to watch coral is super hard to come by where I live cuz no pet stores here sale saltwater have to travel and haven't had enough money to travel
The hardest thing about keeping corals is keeping the PH right and not overfeeding them. Also don't keep fish that like to it coral, like triggers. looks like you have ultraviolet light on them. Looks great. Thanks.
I wander if the switch in color of the immortal acro comes from the stress that comes from cutting. Like if the frag feels "threatened" and changes pigments to get some more juice out of their zooxantellas.
I used to have an extremely bright green/yellowish frogspawn. Untill my torch stretched out and killed it. Haven't even seen another one like it since.
For the worm rock, I guess I am thining I would not try to grow something that could take away from the worms in a color contest.. I would think trying to grow a single color and Dull coral would work better.
I totally support having muted colors and 'supporting actors' and the two rocks still encrusted with Porties fill that role, but I like where your head is at
Jake, I have been in the hobby for 20 years and am starting my first reef tank and would love to have your strain of candy coral. How can I get ahold of some. Thanks for sharing your to 10.
