double montis

[treesprite]

I got two frags from Mogurnda/Dave a couple years ago, a green monti and an orange monti, as sort of a consolation because when I went to pick up a fish it had gotten from the overflow (easy catch) to back in the tank where he couldn't just nab it out at the last minute.

 

I don't have a pic of before they started encrusting to the rock, but here is one from January of 2009 after they had already grown a bit and encrusted some:

 

I have had numerous unintended breaks from them, mostly small which were all either lost in the tank or given away (two were at yesterday's meeting in freebies and raffle), but some large like this orange (don't have any pics of the big green chunk):

(This one is like 3x bigger than the original frag):

 

This is from only a medium-sized break, but it's really cool because it's now well encrusted on the wall of my overflow. The picture is bad, but the encrustment is flat on the glass, like opaque orange glass with polyps on it, and the part that was glued onto the wall has ridges and a lower edge sticking out:

 

This is what these montis look like now, even having lost so many pieces off of them:

 

 

My dilemma right now is that I don''t know what to do with this 4lb rock the montis are on, because I need the area it's resting on for branching types of corals. So I am thinking about selling it, but it depends on if what I could get for it is worth losing it (don't want offers to buy, but could use some suggestions). The history of it is more what makes me want to hold onto it than the fact that it looks cool. Hard decision to make.

Edited April 11, 2011 by treesprite

[flowerseller]

sounds like it's auction time with a reserve

[beatle]

Sell it to a Miami Hurricanes fan, if you can find one.

[Jon Lazar]

A bigger tank solves this problem nicely.

[roni]

Sell it to a Miami Hurricanes fan, if you can find one.

 

Lol. ACC smack talk

 

 

A bigger tank solves this problem nicely.

 

This is a wise man.

 

I personally think it looks really nice and grown in. I'd keep it and maybe glue a couple of the branching frags above.

[trockafella]

Just keep it, its grown in very nicely. And to be honest, green and orange montis are of very minimal value, I doubt you would get what you really want for it. I say you keep it and let it grow..

[treesprite]

I wish I could cut off the surface of the rock they are growing on. If I could do that, I'd have a much easier time.