Oldest Hammer or Torch coral

[Zegg]

Went and helped upgrade a tank the other day and witnessed one of the argest and oldest walling hammer and branching torch coral in my life...

Guess both colonys started out like your nomral maricultured hammer and torch coral 23+ years ago. These things were MASSIVE... wish we had a camera on us... walling hammer was from wasit to over my head in diamater.... almost took 2 people to lift it.. didnt really fit in a 44 gallon brute trash can very well.

Toarch was the same... ended up breaking into 3 peices, which 2 of them barely fit into another 44 gallon brute trash can while the left over 3rd peice was barly able to fit into a 6gal bucket.

Just amazing and one of these times if I see the tank again i need to get pics of it.

 

[FOSELONE]

wow...23 years old ???

 

[JOSE CASAS]

Wow yea would be nice to see pix oh well.

 

[coachfraley]

Pics, or it didn't happen!

 

[JOSE CASAS]

Pics, or it didn't happen!

Yea might be a fish story lol

 

[FOSELONE]

wonder what size tank they were in...glad the guy upgraded too :top:

 

[JOSE CASAS]

Must have been pretty huge.

 

[FOSELONE]

& getting even bigger...

 

[FOSELONE]

:ttiwwop:

 

[jessesoto33]

WOW! I believe!

 

[FOSELONE]

yeah i do too...too bad we didnt have some pics to say...ooohhh...aaahhh...

 

[Zegg]

Yeah I know without pics it sucks... its at a Jewelry shop in belmont shores. He upgraded to a standard 200, 7x2x2, each peice is on the left and right side. takes up about 1/3rd of the tank, torch broke in a couple peices so its only taking about 1/4 now.

 

[JOSE CASAS]

I wonder whats they are going to do with it after it even gets bigger?

 

[Zegg]

well when the time comes.. time for another upgrade or move it to a more suitable tank.

 

[JOSE CASAS]

and public aquaruim to that sort I guess.