Bowerbanks / hillae show off thread [Archive] - Reef Central Online Community

wishntoboutside

12/29/2007, 12:13 PM

Well i think this is due. we have a lot of thread dedicated to other nice lps. so lets get the ball rolling on this one. I would love to see everyone contribute a picture or two. so off and rolling here are a few of mine.
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m171/wishntoboutside/lps%20aussie/IMG_0784.jpg
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m171/wishntoboutside/november%20corals/IMG_0970.jpg
both of these were taken a while back. bring on the new lense and i get this.=)
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m171/wishntoboutside/favia%20and%20lps/IMG_1038-1.jpg
feeding time
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m171/wishntoboutside/favia%20and%20lps/IMG_1044.jpg
this is my favorite one at the moment=)
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m171/wishntoboutside/favia%20and%20lps/IMG_1028.jpg
here is a close up while feeding.
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m171/wishntoboutside/favia%20and%20lps/IMG_1029.jpg
aint that a just to sexy.its going to hurt me when she gets made into mini colonies soon.
anyone got some pic's bring them on thanks in advance
Richard
i think i may be able to shoot a few more,

CableGuy

12/29/2007, 01:31 PM

Here's one.

Colby

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r265/BaysideCorals/aus18.jpg

All Delight

12/29/2007, 02:28 PM

Very nice Richard. I'm gonna have to checkout yout setup one of these days.

Cableguy nice colony.

Here are some of mine.

Red and Teal Hillae
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e304/AllDelight000/04-22-07corals046.jpg

Got this from Ron @ Reef Tec. He said it was a Bowerbanki, but I have no idea. Its pink and green.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e304/AllDelight000/01-26-07009crop.jpg

My pink hillae. My most prized coral. I sometimes look at my tank and play that save the coral game. If I could only save one coral from my tank which would it be. It would be this one.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e304/AllDelight000/01-03-07029crop.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e304/AllDelight000/03-23-07016.jpg

SPStoner

12/29/2007, 07:13 PM

I don't have any of these... yet :D , but I saw this one online a few weeks ago. Almost pulled the trigger, then it was gone...... Still, looked cool enough that I saved the pic.

So, fess up. Who got it? I know you're in here:D

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b82/SPStoner/lg_121807-137a.jpg

wishntoboutside

12/29/2007, 10:34 PM

cable guy great color. looks great.

all delight. i love you pink one. wow

SPStoner none but great post..=) looking foward to see what you acquire in the future.

andrewkw

12/30/2007, 12:19 AM

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y234/andrewkw/xti/IMG_0626.jpg

not a great pic, and not an exceptionally great piece but it's my only hilae.

I'm actually going to move it under more light in an attempt to get it more pink.

Lo0seR

12/30/2007, 12:58 AM

Now this is truely a awsome LPS thread...must keep going. But those in the know will tell you not many of these types out there.

airinhere

12/30/2007, 02:35 AM

This one is my 'what one coral would I save" coral.
Bowerbanki eating a feather duster worm. I love this guy.
<a href="http://s154.photobucket.com/albums/s255/airinhere/?action=view&current=DSCN0298_edited.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s255/airinhere/DSCN0298_edited.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Different colony, feeding time
<a href="http://s154.photobucket.com/albums/s255/airinhere/?action=view&current=DSCN0235_edited.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s255/airinhere/DSCN0235_edited.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

One of my Hillae colonies
<a href="http://s154.photobucket.com/albums/s255/airinhere/?action=view&current=DSCN0702_edited.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s255/airinhere/DSCN0702_edited.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Hogfish77

12/30/2007, 04:43 AM

Wow you guys got some SICK STUFF!!! Here's my only one and he sure eats a lot lol!

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/Addicted_2_Africans/bowerbank.jpg:mixed:

chrisstie

12/30/2007, 10:12 AM

I am jealous, I have neither but am waiting either for a nice deal on getting a head or two to start a colony or eventually someday the bank to be able to purchase one anyway.

I know they aren't the most common thing but their pricing just seems too high and even irregular sometimes.

How do you find the growth of them to be?

monkeydude

12/30/2007, 01:11 PM

Both of these are growing well but I wouldnt say fast.http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/162269IMG_0284.jpg

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/162269IMG_0283.jpg

All Delight

12/30/2007, 01:58 PM

Monkey that first one is sweet.

Airinhere I can see why you'd save that one. Thats a nice colony.

Hogfirsh those are some nice colors.

Andrew can't tell much from that picture, but from what I've of your corals I'm sure its a nice one.

Christie I paid way too much for mine. And pricing is really irregular. There are alot of the aussie ones out there, and if you stay away from the "exotic" specialist you'll find them really reasonable. I've seen purple and green hillae frags for like $20 a head. Thats dirt cheap. Growth IME is pretty slow. That red and teal one that I have in the first picture had two adult heads when I first got it, about a year ago. I was looking for the picture of when I first got it so I can show you then and now. Of course I always run into it when I don't need it, now I've been looking for 20 mins and can't find it. Anyways when I first got it it had adult heads, now those heads have gotten alot bigger and have grown more mouths around it. I think I have about 6 additional mouths now. But it seems like it takes forever for them to fully develope. I feed them here and there. But at least they've grown more mouths. That was the first Hillae I bought, and it came from one of those exotic farmers so I paid a premium. But I was mislead because he told me it was pink. He promised not a reddish pink but pink, pink. I've seen a fully pink no red Hillae before, so I knew it was possible. So I forked out the cash. It looked kinda reddish pink in my tank, then once it settled in it was red. This was the first time I dealt with him I called him and he said well you know, under different lights and different tanks the corals will change slightly. Lesson learned.

The pink one is a totally different story. I've had that piece for about 14 months and not one new mouth. Nothing. I got that piece from Chris @ Reefermadness. He said he had it for 2 years and nothing. If he wasn't exaggerating, thats 3 years without any growth.

If you want I could find a frag around here for you and ship it to you. PM me if you like.

wishntoboutside

12/30/2007, 03:57 PM

interesting note on the growth rates. I have seen very lil to none on some of mine while others are growing. Some that i fraged in the past healed great others receeded. It probably would take forever to get a full sized head growth. To some it up I find my hillae's inconsistant with everything but all like to eat at night.

icu2

12/31/2007, 01:53 PM

Here's one I almost lost to PO4 problem; it is recovering now.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a289/icu_2/bowerbanki.jpg

icu2

12/31/2007, 02:03 PM

lost this one to PO4 RIP... Candy apple red w/ green stripes. Good news is I did frag it before it went so there is hope for someday getting it again.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a289/icu_2/hillaemommy.jpg

monkeydude

12/31/2007, 08:03 PM

Thanks delight, might...... be one of my favs

WWC

12/31/2007, 08:29 PM

here's mine

http://www.worldwidecorals.com/acanhilea.jpg

JOSE CASAS

01/01/2008, 12:19 AM

Very nice pieces i think iam going to start that collection starting Jan 1 2008 HAPPY NEY YEAR!

Hogfish77

01/01/2008, 03:40 AM

Can some care to explain what is "PO4"? I appreciate it.

icu2

01/01/2008, 09:59 AM

Phosphate - I used ROWA and Phosban mix in a large GEO reactor and it lowered the PO4 to much to fast (~3 ppm to 0). LPS are more touchy on the rapid decline of PO4 whereas the SPS were happy in hours IME. Sadly, the it was too late for my bowerbanki.

HTH

wishntoboutside

01/03/2008, 11:41 AM

anyone else got any to show. lets try to keep this going=)

andrewkw

02/01/2008, 08:26 PM

here's a new guy i picked up. It was practically given to me.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y234/andrewkw/feb08/IMGP3124.jpg

and a better pic of my other one I started as a tiny frag

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y234/andrewkw/feb08/IMGP3131.jpg

Hooci

02/02/2008, 10:37 AM

Wishngtobeoutside, Awesome corals. I Have a few heads of the red hillae. Where did you get that awesome colony?

wishntoboutside

02/02/2008, 11:34 AM

Hooci,

thanks for the compliments. as far as the red hillea, it is orgined from austrialia. i got it lucky to be at the right place at the right tome on this one. =)

Hooci

02/02/2008, 08:50 PM

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture002-1.jpg

Hooci

02/02/2008, 08:53 PM

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture006.jpg

Hooci

02/05/2008, 04:11 AM

Get in my belly. This is my acan frag.
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture045.jpg[/IMG][/IMG]

Hooci

02/05/2008, 04:14 AM

New frag we just got.
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture018.jpg[/IMG][/IMG]

Hooci

02/05/2008, 04:15 AM

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture020.jpg

Hooci

02/05/2008, 04:17 AM

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture045.jpg http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture018.jpg http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture016.jpg http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture010.jpg

Fliger

02/05/2008, 12:07 PM

Cool stuff! Here is a neon green hillae, it really glows. That purple green one looks really cool!

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l134/dfliger/Various%20LPS/IMG_6107.jpg

Hooci

02/05/2008, 06:01 PM

Nice color on the green Fliger. I wish we could see some other pics. I have one coming from Atlantis tomorrow. I can hardly wait.

ct_vol

02/05/2008, 06:42 PM

Bowerbanki 1

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j239/ct_vol/100mm/bower.jpg

Bowerbanki 2

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j239/ct_vol/LPS/bower.jpg

Hillae

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j239/ct_vol/LPS/hillae.jpg

Hooci

02/05/2008, 09:47 PM

CT VOL Nice selection. I love the second pic.

Hooci

02/06/2008, 01:21 AM

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture054.jpg http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture091.jpg

Hooci

02/06/2008, 01:23 AM

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture085.jpg

Hooci

02/06/2008, 01:24 AM

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture081.jpg http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture080.jpg

Hooci

02/06/2008, 01:27 AM

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture080.jpg http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture033.jpg

wishntoboutside

02/06/2008, 12:36 PM

ver nice hooci, anyone else have any to show, please chim in.:)

Hooci

02/06/2008, 02:09 PM

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Snowstormhillae.jpg Hopefully she will look better in person than in the picture

montri

02/06/2008, 05:20 PM

What ever they are?http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/41025IMG_0335.JPG
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/41025IMG_0108.JPG

gflat65

02/06/2008, 06:09 PM

I think these are Bowerbanki's...

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c131/gflat65/T5-Acans156jpg.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c131/gflat65/T5-Acans15.jpg
Not good color rendition... It's actually more of a neon orange with a tealish inner ring. This is my favorite.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c131/gflat65/T5-Acans18.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c131/gflat65/T5-Acans19.jpg

ct_vol

02/15/2008, 08:40 PM

Bumping this up... ;)

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j239/ct_vol/LPS/hungry.jpg

Mine hungry... :D

Hooci

02/15/2008, 09:32 PM

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture095.jpg

Just got this from Atlantis and it doesn't look as nice as the pic I got from their website. How do you guys make your photos look as good as theirs? LOL

ct_vol

02/15/2008, 10:14 PM

Good lights, good lens, and good camera... PS helps clean up the haze and adjust the color thrown off from the blue lighting... Sometimes I don't have to do any adjustments, sometimes I do.... :rolleyes:

This is all I could do with the pic you posted, because Photobucket knocks down the resolution...

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j239/ct_vol/hooci2.jpg

That and I don't know what your actual coral looks like, so its hard to get a true representation... I hate it when people Photoshop the p!ss out of things and it doesn't even resemble what they actually have...

Hooci

02/21/2008, 01:55 AM

I agree Randy, I hate it when they photoshop too. I am glad because it is starting to get better color not that its been fed and taken care of. I apreciate your feedback. Hooman

JUICE!

02/21/2008, 11:51 AM

I have these two. Kinda beat up from shipping......I'll get up some new pictures when they recover

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t17/djdlux2005/hillae2.jpg

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t17/djdlux2005/hillae1.jpg

JUICE!

02/21/2008, 01:02 PM

just out of curiosity...what is the difference between a hillae and a bowerbanki?

Supposedly the red one is a hillae, and the purple and green one is a bowerbanki...at least that's what the wholesaler said

~D

Hooci

02/22/2008, 02:24 AM

Juicey, congrats on the new corals they are beautiful.

zeppelin

02/22/2008, 06:51 AM

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11903540#post11903540 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JUICEY
just out of curiosity...what is the difference between a hillae and a bowerbanki?

Supposedly the red one is a hillae, and the purple and green one is a bowerbanki...at least that's what the wholesaler said

~D

Juicey

Those both look like bowerbanki to me. If you look up a few pics at Montri's post, his 1st pic is bowerbanki and that 2nd pic is a hillae, IMO. You can see the polyp structure difference in those pics, to compare yours to.

JUICE!

02/22/2008, 09:26 AM

They look the same to me :-D either way...I like em!

ct_vol

02/22/2008, 10:47 AM

Me too Juicey... They're some of my favorite corals... I'm surprised that more people haven't been posting pics... :rolleyes:

wishntoboutside

02/22/2008, 11:33 AM

nice pictures lets keep them comming

Hooci

03/07/2008, 10:00 AM

Some updated pics from the previous pages. They had been doing a little growing. They have some new friends.<a href="http://s252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/?action=view&current=fefb2008079.jpg" target="_blank"><img [IMG]http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Copy2ofPicture509.jpg http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/CopyofPicture508.jpg http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture117-1.jpg http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/redgreenhilae-1.jpg http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/CopyofPicture508.jpg

Hooci

03/07/2008, 10:00 AM

Hooci

03/07/2008, 10:02 AM

Whoa guys. Sorry for the happy posting finger.

JUICE!

03/07/2008, 10:17 AM

nice pics HOOCI! what kind of camera are you using? I have new pics of the red bowerbanki.....but the picture sucks

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t17/djdlux2005/Bowerbanki.jpg

it's more red than pink in person

Hooci

03/07/2008, 04:34 PM

hey juicy thanks. Pics are hard to get perfect. I suck at it. Cristina took these with trial and error. These were taken with a sony 7.2 DSC t30.
Any of those hillaes look familiar. World Wide Corals stepped it up lovely on these. Whats up with your pink panties. They need to be on this thread. Please don't let RC members miss out on that sweet colony.

SaraB

03/07/2008, 05:47 PM

I have a question ... do the bowerbanki's grow new skeleton or do they have to be placed on a rock and grow over it. Why I am asking is that a friend and I split a colony and we each have a larger piece and 2 frags each and are not sure how we work with them. Place them in the sandbed to grow or place them on a flat rock first and let them grow.

I'll try and get a photo posted of the original colony soon!

ct_vol

03/07/2008, 11:53 PM

FWIW I have my colony in the sandbed, I have my frags in the rockwork... lol I feed the frags more often than the colony, so thats why they're in the rockwork so that I can reach them... :)

Hooci

03/08/2008, 02:15 PM

.http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture085.jpg It was so hard to cut it because I didn't know how it would do. LADIES AND GENTLEMAN for her RC debut. SAY hello to my little friend.

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/fefb2008069-1.jpg http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/fefb2008150.jpg

Hooci

03/08/2008, 02:27 PM

They have gotten plump from the good old days. http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Picture082.jpg http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/fefb2008121.jpg http:// http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/Copyoffefb2008096.jpg http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/Hoomancan/fefb2008109.jpg

wishntoboutside

05/19/2008, 12:16 PM

anyone have anything new to share.. lets see it.=)

airinhere

05/19/2008, 03:18 PM

Here are my Bowerbankis eating in time lapse video.
I have a bunch of time lapse videos at http://www.airinheresreef.com/Time%20Lapse.html

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s255/airinhere/th_MVI_1356.jpg (http://s154.photobucket.com/albums/s255/airinhere/?action=view&current=MVI_1356.flv)

64Ivy

05/20/2008, 06:42 AM

Acans-hillae, I believe.

http://www.moyesreef.com/uploads/Acans-Hillae-1.jpg

limestro

06/18/2008, 05:15 AM

My first bowerbanki that I got just recently a quick closeup.

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u169/limestro/trueBowerbanki.jpg

~Mike

wishntoboutside

06/18/2008, 10:40 AM

limsto... nice score..

limestro

06/18/2008, 01:53 PM

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12771157#post12771157 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by wishntoboutside
limsto... nice score..

wishntoboutside,

Thanks. These things are pretty cool. I wish there was more information out there on these guys.

~Mike

extinguishfire

06/19/2008, 11:06 PM

Here is a pic of two of mine.
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b346/extinguishfire2149/M01A0875.jpg

limestro

06/19/2008, 11:09 PM

What do you guys feed your bowers/hillae? I've just started silversides. How slow do these guys grow?

~Mike

All Delight

06/20/2008, 12:46 PM

I feed mine mysis and brine

ct_vol

06/20/2008, 02:13 PM

PE Mysis...

Growth is pretty slow with my Bowerbankii's... My Hillae grows moderately... :)

abereefur

06/20/2008, 08:00 PM

dont know what it is.. i think bowerbanki... could be an scolly australis though... since it grows like one and kinda looks like same skeleton structure.. o well. i call this one the partriot because of the red white (actually kinda grey) and blue coloration

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj21/abeabou/IMG_4141-1.jpg

only picture i had where you can see both heads.

and a front on shot, wadda y'all think?

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj21/abeabou/119F4391-1.jpg

limestro

06/20/2008, 08:52 PM

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12789062#post12789062 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by abereefur
dont know what it is.. i think bowerbanki... could be an scolly australis though... since it grows like one and kinda looks like same skeleton structure.. o well. i call this one the partriot because of the red white (actually kinda grey) and blue coloration

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj21/abeabou/IMG_4141-1.jpg

only picture i had where you can see both heads.

and a front on shot, wadda y'all think?

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj21/abeabou/119F4391-1.jpg

My guess would be more of the Acan Lord. If you look at the texture of the bowerbanki and hillae. You will notice significant differences between them and the acan lord. The bowerbanki is easier to tell. The texture resembles that of a pair of denim pants. The Hillae seems to show more of the spikey type texture the lords have. I think the thing that gives it a way is the fact that the coloration shown is more common in a lord than that of the hillae that are being imported. To me IMO. The stripping gives it away. Just my two cents.

~Mike