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I moved the Candycane coral to the top of the reef in an area not being hammered with flow. The polyps weren't able to tolerate that pressure and tissue was peeling away. I'm expecting it to recover nicely.

Acropora millepora. I was trying to show the skin of the coral as well as some polyps.

This yellow hammer coral was given to me recently since it was declining in another system. It looks better already, but it will take many months to regrow what has been lost. It's not very yellow at this point.

The Pagoda Cup coral has new polyps growing along the perimeter of the tissue, and looks very healthy.

Speaking of corals that needed some TLC, this Platygyra pini has been with me about six years. A lot of it died off during the period of waiting for the new 400g to arrive, but it has already improved significantly and I'd bet by the end of this year it will be fully colonized once more. I was looking for an older image to compare it against, but didn't have much luck.

The staghorn Acropora is the centerpiece in my reef currently. Here are two shots, the original uncropped and then a closer image after being cropped to show the skin and polyps.

This Chalice coral was gifted to me. It has four polyps and seems quite content, but it will be a long time until it's big enough to cover the frag disk it's glued upon. I'll take a top down shot at some point. The skin is almost white between the mouths, which makes it rather interesting. When shooting with a macro lens, you have to photograph perpendicular to the glass, which is why you can only see what little bit rose up into view. If I'd tried to point the lens at a downward angle to get more of the coral into view, it would have been blurry due to refraction of the 3/4" glass.