Upscales Raspberry Echino

[kev apsley]

Please post your pictures of the Upscales Rasberry Echino, I have a heard a lot of good stuff about this chalice but I don't see too many pictures of it. If you got pictures can you please post them here...it's quickly becoming my new favorite

Also, could you give a brief overview of lighting and placement of it in your system

This is Reef farmers Seed Colony
http://reeffarmers.com/limited_echinophylliarasberry_colony.jpg

[All Delight]

I know I have a picture of mine somewhere. Its not uploaded into my photobucket so I'll have do dig through some pics. But yah man its a really nice one and its not easy to find. From what I hear Upscales lost their colony and tyree doesn't have his either. From my experience its grows very slow. Think of something that grows slow then cut that in half, lol.

Kev you and I have the same lighting. Mine is on the sand bed.

When I got my first frag it a bit smaller then a dime. That was maybe 6 months ago. Today its barely the size of a nickel. :D

That picture does it no justice. Looking at it I would think why would you want it? But its a really really nice piece. Nice pink/red with blue eyes.

[kev apsley]

Yeah man dig up that pic I am dying to see it! it must be one of those corals that just doesn't photograph very well or something!

[All Delight]

I'll look tonight.

After I got that frag, not more then 2 weeks later I was at Eric's (FF) and I saw he had a mini colony of this upscales raspberry. I asked him how much for a frag, he said you can buy the entire piece if you want. So I did. Then I had a drop in alk about 1 month later and lost a few pieces, that happen to be one of them. But the small frag I had before survived.

[roktsintst]

Here is my small frag kev. it is an awesome piece and definitly is a Must Have!

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a119/JNye/Ryan/P1050513.jpg

[mpoletti]

I got mine from Travis about 10 months ago. It was a fresh cut and started to receed and bleach. I saved one eye and since then it has grown into two eyes :lol:

[kev apsley]

Nice Ryan! that's a nice lil frag :)

sounds like a tempermental chalice, lot's of people having issues with it???

[JOSE CASAS]

I will post a pix of mine later.:)

[acro1]

I'm a big fan of unusual chalices but this one seems pretty plain to me.

[All Delight]

Believe it or not, but here it is. It probably grew slow from the beginning because it didn't have a mouth yet. Right now it has 3 mouths now. Whats strange is how it changed from the pinkish color with blue rim to mostly blue with pinkish around the mouths.

When I first got it in March 08
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e304/AllDelight000/3-14-08upscalesraspberry001crop.jpg

And the last picture I took of it in July
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e304/AllDelight000/7-16-08corals012upscalesraspberry.jpg

[slojmn]

The Upscales Raspberry really is a sweet chalcie. I love the deep raspberry red of the body with raspberryorange/blue eyes with a nice blue rim. It really does stand out in the tank with all the other chalices I have. It is a slooooow grower and can be tempermental when fragged but well worth the wait for those that get it. I have been keeping it on the bottom with diffused light or even shaded from time to time when it gets shoved back a bit. I think less light keeps the body a really deep raspberry color and gets the eyes a bit more intense. The color in the rim has really deepened since the second shot was taken. :) :)

Macro shot of the eyes when I first got it
http://slojmnsreef2.homestead.com/Upscales_Raspberry_Chalice_6-11-07_sm.jpg

Earlier this year, distance shot
http://slojmnsreef2.homestead.com/Upscales_Raspberry_Chalice_2-4-08_sm.jpg

[kev apsley]

Great pictures guys! and Thanks Darryll!

Ahhh Alicia, I knew you had this one! you have a gorgoeus specimen! So diffused low light brings out the raspberry color and higher light makes it more blue like Darryll's? You still running SE 12K Reeflux 250w?

[slojmn]

Actually mine just lightened up quite a bit and the eyes were not as visible out in the light, I am not sure how Darryl got his so blue inthe body. Mine was more like Tyree's picture at the top of this thread when it was out in the direct light. I like it better now and in the pictures.

Kevin, I swapped out light fixtures about 6 months ago over the tank with my sps and chalices, currently I am running a SE 20K Radium with 4 x 24w T5's in a Giesemann Fixture...it rocks :D. Prior to that I had 2 x 250 DE Phoenix bubls. I run the SE 250w 12K Reeflux on my other tank :).

[kev apsley]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13721500#post13721500 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by slojmn
Actually mine just lightened up quite a bit and the eyes were not as visible out in the light, I am not sure how Darryl got his so blue inthe body. Mine was more like Tyree's picture at the top of this thread when it was out in the direct light. I like it better now and in the pictures.

Kevin, I swapped out light fixtures about 6 months ago over the tank with my sps and chalices, currently I am running a SE 20K Radium with 4 x 24w T5's in a Giesemann Fixture...it rocks :D. Prior to that I had 2 x 250 DE Phoenix bubls. I run the SE 250w 12K Reeflux on my other tank :).

Sweet light set-up!!!! Thanks for the info Alicia, hey lmk when you trim some of your chalices again ;)

[Henry760]

Pic taken under 400w Radiums on SLS Galaxy Ballast.

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn159/reef-treasures/ncanonpics1245-1.jpg

[mrgreenthumb]

i just contacted travis to see if he had any of this available, and he said he sold the colony awhile back :( dang it where are you guys getting your frags, i thought since i just live down the roda from upsca,es i would be able to easily pick this one up, but i guess not.....

[wishntoboutside]

very nice henrey..

[All Delight]

Alicia I don't know either how mine turned the blue color haha. Mine gets low light but its direct light. 150watt 20k. I wonder how much actinics play a roll in these colors?

[roktsintst]

I was waiting for you to post Alicia!

Beautiful piece Henry, where do you have it placed?

[Henry760]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13724366#post13724366 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by roktsintst
I was waiting for you to post Alicia!

Beautiful piece Henry, where do you have it placed?

Thanks,I keep it on the sandbed..

[Henry760]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13724029#post13724029 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by wishntoboutside
very nice henrey..

Richard hows your piece doing?

[JOSE CASAS]

:)
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s118/JOSECASAS714/001-10.jpg

[kev apsley]

Alright Jose! okay give me your assement of this chalice an do you like it?

[JOSE CASAS]

Alright Kev I like it and have not had it for very long but I keep mine in low light and moderate flow.

[kenngai78]

very nice

[al abaqueta]

Those are insane. Thanks for adding to my "want list." lol