ReefSafari

Welcome to the chalice addiction! Nice ones there! The Miami hurricane is still a favorite of mine and a fairly fast grower!

The first step to recover is admitting you have a problem right?...lol Have you noticed your Miami Hurricane getting more blue under different lighting conditions? Like some corals under brighter light get more lighter and more shaded makes them darker? I am just curious...Miami Hurricane is one of my favorites too, Love the Blue...just wish the eyes where bigger...to help show off that intense eye coloration...Can't wait to do updated pics down the road to visually see before and after pics...Lots of cool chalices out there thats for sure...

Whoops...what happened!!(naughty) Awesome Chalice Pack courtesy of Mr.Bret...Thank you Bret! (rock2)

Robokaki

Bubblegum Monster

Hot Lava Monster...One of the reddest Chalices I have ever seen in person..One of my favorites!

Maimi Hurricane

So I have 5 different kinds now...Can't wait to see them grow out...Pretty cool stuff!

Awesome! Congrats on the new additions...that red planet is on top of my list for favorite millis...the blue polyp monti is one of my favorites too, fast grower for me, ive accidently fragged it a couple times now...

Thanks for the replies! So being new to Chalices...and not knowing first hand how fast they grow, for those chalice keepers out there, is this normal for only having it a week? The edges are nice and plump, and I don't know if I am seeing things, but it looks like it wants to grow...Can you tell the difference between when i first got it and a week later?

Curious if anyone has ever bought Chalice frags from Ebay? I googled Chalice and it directed me to Ebay and WOW...there are some really cool chalices on there, I was curious if it was like playing russian roulette? Has anyone taken the chance before and purchased any of these? I would much rather spend my money at the local shops where I can see the frag and possibly the mother colony prior to purchase, my fear is getting a half dead frag of an expensive chalice from a shady seller on Ebay, but dang are some of the chalices cool, many I don't see available locally. Curious if anyone has bought chalices off ebay?

Well, Woke up this morning and flashlighted the tank, and was surprised to see all the eyes awake and ready to feed, one of the sweeper tenticles was HUGE...almost an inch long comming out of one of the eyes, so I target fed each eye (there is about 6 of them) and all 6 ate a mysis shrimp, and they ate it QUICK!! faster than any other LPS I have ever target fed, and the feeders came right back out like it was hungry for more...lol. Actually was late for work this morning cuase I wanted to stay and feed it some more, try explaining that to your boss, when you showed up late for work with a big grin on your face, the boss chaulked it up that something (***Cough***couch**) that cuased me to be late and put a smile on my face...I just left it at that...He wouldn't understand the real reason..."Ummm..sorry I am late...got to target feed my new Chalice this morning"...lol

I don't know if I am over exaggerating, but I swear it looks like it wants to grow, the edges of the chalice frag are nice and round and for someone who examines thier corals for the ever so smallest of growth, I think I might be seeing it wanting to grow...Pretty cool stuff... Miami Hurricane... I am comming for ya...LOL

Big thanks to Cos (OIAB) for being such a good Coral Pusher...lol Good times...

Ya looks like original mummy eye. If you want one with more green you need to get the Oregon mummy eye' date=' mengs mummy, and there are a bunch of others. But be careful you are saying right now that your not sold on them but I was thinking the same for a long time. But I have 38 different chalices In my tank right now and I think like 5 more coming my way from a grow out that I am in. They are my coral crack right now but I told my wife I would not buy any more corals for awhile.[/quote']

 

I hear ya, I have caught myself looking at Chalice pics, But I told myself, I am not getting another one till I see growth on this one that I have...lol, as tempting as it is to grab a couple more, I want to see how Chalices do in my system first. I am still in the experiemental stage still, trying different corals out, seeing what does well for me and what doesnt (always a bummer when you find that out the hard way) So we will see...if this one does well for me, then I might give another one a try...Kinda leaning toward a Miami Hurricane...I like the Blue...We will see, I have yet to see the eyes want to feed, I keep checking it every night and morning before the lights come on...but it looks like its doing well so far...

 

What amazes me about chalices is the price and what you get for that price...Like Literally a frag that is $200-$500 that looks like someone smeared thier spent gum on a frag plug...lol.. and then to sit and stare at that tiny frag for what seems like ever to see any growth...To each thier own I guess...lol we will see, I have a feeling Chalices grow to slowly for me...I can literally visually see growth on my SPS almost on a daily basis...I like that...

 

EDIT: I reached 1000 posts...wooohooo!!! But wait...I went from a "Shark" to a "Zoanthid"??? Thats like a step down isnt it?...lol

I agree if the eyes are more orange then some type of mummy eye. If they are pinkish then could be a bubble gum monster. Either way it's a nice frag. Beware of the chalice addiction!

I would say it has more orange eyes, I hope it gets more green.....while I think its cool, im not totally sold on chalices yet...one is plenty for me right now, curious to experience how well they do for me and how fast they grow, I like to see growth and like fast growing easy to keep corals...lol, not sure if chalices will be for me...but it will be fun to give them a try....good to know its a Mummy Eye Chalice....thanks

So I took advantage of the good weather and my OIAB punch card(naughty) and took a drive to Vancouver on saturday to check out Ocean in a Box, Not to turn this into a props thread, but one of the things I really like about OIAB is that they have this amazingly huge dispay tank with nice beautiful colonies of corals in all thier glory, and then you look over and see in the frag displays actual frags of the exact same coral colonies in the main display, Its cool to see full colonies of what your frags will end up looking like, I was talking to Cos about chalices and how they have never really been my thing, and while they are pretty, encrusting corals don't really do much for me, but after seeing this full colony, and this is a VERY bad cell phone pic of the mother colony, but it is a pretty cool chalice...

Cos had good sized frags of this chalice, so I thought what the heck, I will give Chalices a try and see how I do with them, I don't know the name of this chalice, but I like it. Cos had quite a few really awesome chalices in the shop..I am going to see how I do with this one before getting any more...

Cos even hooked me up with the perfect chalice rock too...I hope to someday see this thing totally covering this flat, round peice of rock...

Anyone have a chalice like this? Maybe Cos can chime in and give the name again...Its been in my tank a couple days now, and its starting to turn more green with orange eyes, with a faint hint of yellowish...I hope it does well...

My first and only chalice.....just got it

If I had to take a guess...id say Fire and Ice morph of some kind...just a guess

Awesome Kim! I can't believe you would put the PLATINUM in the SUMP!!!...lol Thats awesome! What Anemone tank would be complete with a Platinum Clown and RBTA in the Sump, now that is a dedicated Anemone System...lol

That is one REALLY awesome system, Keep the pics comming, I really like how you setup the hood/lighting, pretty impressive, I am liking these Cube systems more and more..Congrats on getting the tank up and running, looks amazing!!

Very Cool System! Very jelous of that INSANELY awesome Neon Green Carpet, Fantastic job on this system!

Great Poll, as I am in need of a revamping of my clean up crew, it will be interesting to see what people say...

Awesome Brad, Its hard to grasp how much work you have done, well done, really looking forward to seeing the progression and final outcome...If you ever need any help moving heavy things, you know I am able...

I love the last picture, Camera in one hand and Beer in the other...LOL Looking great! Can't wait to see it filled!!

Sweet Mary, that is so tempting...I would have to get rid of most of my corals...Someone jump on this...they are such cool anemones...Wish I had a bigger tank darnit!

We should start a Shrimp Haters Club.....a place where people can get together and trash talk and vent about how we all hate shrimp....The meetings can be like at Red Lobster and we can all order all you can eat shrimp....that would be so much fun....lol

Should be called little evil fat bastard cleaner shrimp.

LOL....(laugh)You must have my old shrimps brother....Mine was named "Little Dirty Bastard"....followed by a bunch of REALLY bad words that I can't type publically.....(nono)(laugh)

Happy Birthday, Hope you have a great one, wish you the best!

Beautiful Angel, Congrats Rick....SO hope it doesn't like Carpet Anemones....

Shrimp on the barbie.

Sweet Mary, You stole the words right out of my mouth....LOL

If I have learned anything in this hobby, its that if I keep LPS or anything that you are wanting to feed, that I will never...EVER have any kind of shrimp in with it....I actually got to the point of seriously wanting to design a minuture spear gun so I could spear the sucker....At first when I got in to Reef Tanks, I thought shrimp where pretty cool, I have quickly become very ANTIShrimp...and consider them for food purposes only....I have had Cleaner Shrimp, Peppermint Shrimp, Blood/Fire Shrimp....and they all eventually did the same thing, even after target feeding them till they seemed to not be able to eat any more, BUT they would still go and pick food out of all my LPS....

There are two things I will never own again.....SHRIMP....and 6-Line Wrasses....Those do the same thing....I hate them! If I where you I would catch that sucker and sell it, trade it, flush it...whatever....LOL

These are serious BAD AZZ tanks, I was looking at them prior to going the 40 Breeder route...They have the same foot print as a 40 breeder but are just a little taller right? Seriously Cool Tanks....and Rimless TOO! free bump...for a cool tank..

I'll bring up the "raffle idea" Kim to the rest of the BOD.

Great! I already have a frag from TECO and one from Premium aquarium that I will be raffleing off

I think this is a great idea, a great way to show how tight this community of Coral Fanatics are, its a great way to show how awesome PNWMAS is...I am all for it.....if the BOD give the green light to do it, I think there should be a seperate post about it, so everyone who might miss this thread, knows about it...and comes to the meeting prepaired to buy some raffle tickets for a great cause...(rock2) Frags from TECO and Premium Aquarium....(clap)....how could anyone go wrong with buying a raffle ticket or two..(or three or four)....