Ecoxotic FTS - 2-15-2011
Yeah, I took a small chunk of my birthday money and ordered corals for the tank. While I really, really would’ve liked to pull the trigger on some of the fantastic Goneastreas that have been showing up in the LiveAquaria.com Diver’s Den, I really can’t spend that kind of money on coral for this tank.
So…I turned to eBay and found a seller from Peoria, IL, who goes by “woosaquatics123″. What clued me into this vendor was a relatively good feedback rating (I always go see what any negatives and neutrals say, knowing that the one negative feedback I ever got from a buyer was a buyer who didn’t have a clue what he was talking about on a WISIWYG auction that even had a RULER in the picture). That, and when viewing completed listings, it seemed that most frags sold for the opening bid. I have a feeling that after this post, that might not be the case. Of course, woosaquatics123 also had multiple small Goneastrea / Favia frags that were of interest to me, including a small 2 head frag of the “Reverse Prism Goneastreas” that have been showing up in the Diver’s Den. I hate to say it, but $10 for a frag vs. $200 for a colony…sometimes you just have to pull the trigger on the $10 frag.
In the end, I lost a couple things that would’ve been nice to win (like a beautiful little Pink Goniopora) but I got my “colored chips”. The score included an 2 polyp Aussie Reverse Prism Goneastrea, a 1 head beg-and-plead frag of Dragon Soul, a surprisingly stunning LE Joker Goneastrea, a Red/Green or Brown/Aquamarine Platygyra maze brain (color really varies with light), a nice Aussie red green and purple Blastomussa wellsi, a good sized chunk of Sympodium (fell in love the very first time I saw it) for 1/3 the going rate, and another surprisngly stunning Aussie Goneastrea that seemed kinda “normal” in pictures and has teal eyes and green skin. There was also a mix-up…I got sent a Favites that I hadn’t bid on instead of another Favites I had bid on. You know it’s a good seller when they say “keep the frag” and refund the payment for the coral you didn’t get.
Opening up a box from Woos Aquatics.
In fact, I’ve withheld this post until my next round of auctions close. Yeah, those things I missed were up again, as well as more pieces of some of the things that I really, really liked. I don’t need to encourage potential competition! Insurance frags. That, and in a composition, it’s usually recommended to “reuse” certain elements in the piece more than once. Ideally at least three times. And so…no harm in having more than one piece of the same thing.
Here’s most of the corals added on 2-15-2011:
The "mistake" Favites - 2-15-2011
Aussie Goneastrea - 2-15-2011
Platygyra - 2-15-2011
Dragon Soul Favia / Goneastrea - 2-15-2011
Aussie Reverse Prism Goneastrea - 2-15-2011
Aussie Blastomussa wellsi - 2-15-2011
LE Joker Goneastrea - 2-15-2011
Some additional shots of corals that I traded fish for on 2-12-2011:
Green/Pink/Purple Birdsnest Colony from Cosmic Aquatics - 2-12-2011
Incredible Hulk Clove Polyps from Cosmic Aquatics - 2-12-201
Sour Apple Birdsnest from Cosmic Aquatics - 2-12-2011
And finally, a couple more full tank shots of the Ecoxotic 25 gallon LED Aquarium System….
Ecoxotic FTS - 2-15-2011
Ecoxotic FTS - 2-15-2011
One final note – every coral that goes into this tank is going through a pre-treatment with Seachem Reef Dip. I’d be an idiot not to.
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