The Blue Chalice is an Echinopora lamellosa. This coral has a beautiful plating, wavy growth form that is similar to Montipora capricornis. Under natural sunlight this coral is a pinkish tan color but under higher Kelvin metal halide or T5 lights it will turn a beautiful lavender to baby blue color. ORA broodstock for this coral came from two sources back in 2002. Some was from a German hobbyist who stated the coral was originally collected in 1989, the rest was from a well known New York hobbyist named Randy Donowitz.

 ORA Blue Chalice

Some overdue shots of our reef/prop tanks.

3x5' tank

Incredible Hulk & Palua Sinularia

 2x3' Ricordia tank

6x2.5' Prop tank

Fraggies!!!

 The GIANT clam! ;p

The cat fish..........

More photos here:

http://photos.frags.org/bymember.php?mid=15132

hey everyone i am new to website. if anyone lives near the erie, pa area and needs corals please read on. erie is in the most north western part of PA. on friday i decided to sell my system all corals, inverts, fish, and equiptment. my lights just sold on ebay and will be shipping them out wednesday the 3rd. the corals won't last long without there light so if you need corals please email me. i am willing to sell them pretty cheap to get them out of the tank so they don't die.

i have green acropora, brown birdsnest, 1 crocea clam about 3-5inchs long, hammer coral, meat coral, red yellow and brown zoes, green/purple hairy mushrooms, brown montipora, small maze brain, neon candy canes, purple/orange rics, and 2 corals i don't know the name of.

 i also have a lot of equiptment that im selling locally and on ebay. some of these things include...asm g3 skimmer, urchin skimmer, mag 5, mag9.5, korila 4, korila 2, more powerheads, bionic, salt, and the list goes on...so if you live near my area please email me. thanks

 Well I had an active account on here a few years ago but it kind of fell along the wayside. So I created a new account recently and loaded up a bunch of frags today.  

I've been in the biz since 2004 and adore the hobby.  We've been heavy into aquaculture during the last year and half or so. Our business is a FL licensed aquaculture facility. We have 3 large dedicated prop tanks: 2x3', 2.5x6', and 5x3'. We use 400w 10k Reeflux MH's with Lumenmax reflectors to grow our frags. Our big thing is efficiency and we use every square inch, I have about 1000 frags growing out at this point. My goal is to have over 2000 frags growing by July and to become a distributor to retailers as well as having an online store. 

 I really love aquaculture and think everyone with the ability should do it. If you have the knowledge and the time it really isn't that hard and aquacultured corals are so much more healthy than wild stuff. I'm always trying to convince my local wholesalers to move more towards aquaculture. They have those big tanks with MH's sitting empty most of the time nowadays so why not?? Nobody wants to buy whole corals these days and aquaculture is much more earth friendly.  It's cool to think I have little frag babies in tanks all over the U.S. . ;]

 Check out my website: Reefgardener.net         We are hobbyists first and care about what we grow and sell.  

 Me at a recent frag swap

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My husband (the aqua architect) before a big frag swap

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 My current fav Haitian ricordia

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Hello, I just wanted to let you all know about my new shop in Coon Valley, WI. I operate out of home so I am able to spend time with my family. We take walk ins on Saturday's and Sundays but it is best to email or call ahead of time to make sure somebody is home. We can set up times for you to visit during the week as well. Keep in mind-we are small still, but have many beautiful corals for sale. I hope to start selling online-and possibly shipping.  We have many acans/ricordea/mushrooms/zoas and much much more right now! Check out www.CoonValleyCorals.com thank you!

Wet Thumb Frags will be one of the vendors at this coral show . We will bring really nice frags such as Jimmy Orange Sherbert Chalice ( rare ). We only have a few pieces available. You can select what you like at our site www.wetthumbfrags.net and we will bring them to you.


Steve Tyree's Annual Spring Event

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

10:30 AM to 4 PM

Hilton Newark/Fremont Hotel
39900 Balentine Dr.
Newark, California 94560

For more info, please visit the site at
http://www.ba-cfm.com/

Hello everyone,

We are based out of Miami and carry some exotic frags from time to time. We only frag healthy colonies that have acclimated and show growth. We specialize in Autralian corals as well as some unique chalices. You can also check out our website for full colonies of all types of corals that we sell.

We can also order beautiful frags from ORA and we are considered by most to have excellent prices.

Give us a try you will not be dissapointed.

 VIP Reef Aquariums

16300 SW 137 Avenue #110

Miami, FL 33177

Beautiful new Chalice added

Starlight-Starbright $75

Stunning and rarely seen color pattern.

Black and Gold 3-4 polyp frags $50

7 different jap zoos 6-8 polyp count each $150 shipped

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