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I love this first chalice, especially under 20,000K lighting.

This green and blue one is doing quite well.

A little frag was gifted to me by popular vote on DFWMAS, and this is the actual color of the tissue. I used a flash to keep the color honest.

This little guy is amazing. You have to get up close to really appreciate it. I spotted it at a local store, and a friend pulled out his wallet on the spot. A few months later, he gave me a piece.

Same coral as above, but up close like I told you. And no flash this time. See all the billions of dots? That's why I loved it.

Another cool chalice in my collection.

This Lobo has been in my system for several years, but I've not posted a picture of it in months. It has more orange to it during the actinic period, but this was shot with a flash so it's color is "as is."

To avoid reflections of the lights above, I took this picture during the moonlight phase. Using a remote flash with the return pump off, I wanted to share the large acropora colony to give you a sense of its size.

Within the frag tank that I've been ignoring, my black suncorals are doing quite well. If you recall, most of the colony perished over a year ago but three polyps survived. If you count the bumps in these two pictures, you'll see there are about 20 polyps now. These open up at night well after lights out.

Here they are during the late night hours.

The Dendrophyllia polyps are slowly multiplying. I counted at least nine now, some of which are pictured on the right side of this next image. They resemble flames, wouldn't you agree?

I have a very large area of encrusting Sunset Montipora in there that won't come out intact, so it too hasn't been moved. It's pretty, and covers about a 5" square area.

Speaking of Montipora, the Orange Blob has taken over about a third of the frag tank and may require a spatula to get it out, but more likely it will break into pieces. I hate messing with it, but some of it in the big tank sure would be nice.