Rainbow Cycloseris, Juvenile Leather Bass and Breeder Maxima clams featured in Eye Candy Overload video
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While editing through half a terabyte of our video collection we stumbled across these three gems from the video archives: the Rainbow Cycloseris, a Juvenile Leather bass and some breeder Maxima clams. The Rainbow Cyclo is the same orange anf green striped specimen from a previous post, and also on one side of our flyer but the other specimens are fresh. The uber cute black and white stripe grouper might seem like a real munchkin now but keep in mind that Dermatolepis dermatolepis grows very large, very quickly. This tank-busting fish is not so frequently seen in the hobby and understandably so but as groupers go, the leather bass is quite the looker even as it grows and loses it’s stripes. The two breeder maxima clams really put the glory of Tahitian Maxima Clams in perspective. Previously these two 8″+ maximas would have been about as nice as clams get and don’t get us wrong, they are still very choice. However, the vibrance and diversity of colors of the Tridacna maxima being collected for us in Tuamotu are often so much nicer.
Those are AWESOME!
You should see this one, I’m pretty sure it is a cycloseris:
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December 31st, 2009 at 3:19 pm
hahahahahaha@fluid related incident
December 31st, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Has to be one of the best reefbuilders quotes for 2009 “I almost had a fluid-related incident when Kevin showed me this picture without prior warning.”
The color combo in Greenwich Aquaria’s pink cyclo is amazing! After seeing this coral in person, hands down it is the winner!
January 1st, 2010 at 11:45 am
I’ll have to go with the greenwich cyclo, its hot.
January 1st, 2010 at 5:56 pm
I’ve been waiting to do this Cycloseris vote-off all year long and I can’t believe there have been so many examples of awesome Cyclos this past year. Looks like the Borneo Cyclos are in the lead so far!
January 2nd, 2010 at 11:22 am
Although the more I look at the Cherry Corals offering the more amazed I am. It has 4 colors and hadn’t had time to really even get settled in before it sold.
Of course I am very biased
January 2nd, 2010 at 12:30 pm
I’m local to A Reef Creations and had the opportunity to see the SunDial in person. Pictures don’t do it justice and I’m really bummed that it’s no longer up for grabs. Kinda reminds me of the one that lunatic was asking $5G’s for! haha.
Anywho, great article/eye candy, all are beautiful!
January 2nd, 2010 at 10:50 pm