A Splash of Color

[martinphillip03]

Nice!

Marty

 

[Rsmreef]

For Me Andrew I chose top row second from the right. Or bottom left ohhh it's so hard to choose with out actually seeing the pieces in the flesh. I'll stick to the first pick . Lol

 

[slavetonet]

That piece will turn purple pink piece once it gets populated with zooxanthellae.

 

[martinphillip03]

You have stated that you love Fluoro green acres. That one is a stunner. Please don't change the color. The Fluoro green color is the best. I'm sure your Canadian friends love the color also.

Marty

Biggles took one of the three fireworks frags off the orange pav and took it to the shop on saturday in the hopes of swapping it for something cool. Before he reached the wet room he ran into a guy named Mark who told him he had a magic bean acro in the shop tank he would swap for the precious fireworks frag.

' Looks like just another fluoro green acro to me Mark '

' It's a magic bean acro. Very, very rare and will change into whatever color you want it to '

' BAG IT ! '

Biggles giggled to himself all the way home and relished telling all his acro mates about the magic acro he had because he knew he was the only reefer on RC with a MAGIC BEAN ACRO. :celeb1:

So the time has come, check it out suckers - i haven't decided what color i want it to be yet but Mark said all i had to do was tell it and wait a week or two - how easy is that

I expect some of you jelly bellies to say there's no such thing as a magic bean acro - that's just because you don't have one !

I do :smokin:

 

[reefmutt]

That piece will turn purple pink piece once it gets populated with zooxanthellae.

You mean once he dips it in purple and pink dyes..

 

[honkit]

It's interesting (and kind of sad) to see so many Australian acroporas arriving at LFSs with fluoro colours and the colours eventually fade to something more subtle or saturate into single colourations.

 

[slavetonet]

You mean once he dips it in purple and pink dyes..

:lmao::lmao::lmao: That is funny Matt.
Probably what Andrew would do secretly. :dance:

 

[biggles]

It's interesting (and kind of sad) to see so many Australian acroporas arriving at LFSs with fluoro colours and the colours eventually fade to something more subtle or saturate into single colourations.

I don't think you really want a tank full of acros that look RTN'd from 10 feet away though do you mate...... :spin3:

 

[biggles]

Great! Giggles is getting out his food colourings again!
It autocorrected to giggles! I'm leaving it..
Maybe get your boy to have a word with that green bean acro, maybe he'll be able to change its colour with a few good insults he learned from his pa..

Andrew, never stop rubbing it in.. always love the coral shots

I think i'm the only one on RC who actually likes all fluoro green beans Matt......... They look just as glowy under full lighting as dusk blue BS lighting - i have 6 green beans ( one is magic )

That's the frag he made? Holy cow. Beautiful too.

Well it wasn't supposed to end up that big but none of us thought it was a good idea to try again considering Dave's first attempt
You see similar pieces quite frequently at Dave's but they're always shades of pink or red predominately and i have enough pinks and reds in the display so i ignore them as a rule. This is the first one i've seen that had very different color shades because i suspect most go on the Thursday night unpack meetings lol. That big table branch was ignored at $60- when unpacked Thursday night and still there Saturday when i went to the shop. :hmm5:

Nice!

Marty

Thanks Marty, we'll see how nice it ends up though mate.

For Me Andrew I chose top row second from the right. Or bottom left ohhh it's so hard to choose with out actually seeing the pieces in the flesh. I'll stick to the first pick . Lol

Dave took the pics and you're right, you can't really see what i can see when i get to pick them up and inspect them from top to bottom in and out of the water ( pigments out of the water are much better indicators of potential once you spend years learning the out of water pigment colors and how they translate to blue lighting )........... normal reefers don't know this stuff........... i need to get a non SPS life lol......:hmm5:

That piece will turn purple pink piece once it gets populated with zooxanthellae.

Thanks Kevin, i will sit back and watch the show......... :beer:

You have stated that you love Fluoro green acres. That one is a stunner. Please don't change the color. The Fluoro green color is the best. I'm sure your Canadian friends love the color also.

Marty

That little piece has no fluoro at the moment, it's as dull as the tissue looks pretty much - zero pop. In a couple of weeks it should look a whole light brighter. If it was in a Canadian tank it would be unhappy, green beans hate the cold Marty......

You mean once he dips it in purple and pink dyes..

With acros as white as that one i usually go straight to the permanent markers to get the pigment ball rolling........ i just color them in Matty

:lmao::lmao::lmao: That is funny Matt.
Probably what Andrew would do secretly. :dance:

I do lots secretly Kevin............ lots....... :smokin:

 

[Myka]

You won't have a prob getting that piece looking its best for another reefer to buy Mindy

Well Andrew, it's starting to be more pink and less green, which is a good thing. I just counted all the Acros in my tank that have green in some shape or form. I figured out that over 90% have green on them - be it polyps, corallites, skin, the whole frickin thing, etc. So there be some Acro purge coming soon. I already pried 3 off the rocks. Gonne get rid of my SSC too - it has too much green. I may replace it with Lemonade instead and hope it is yellow and not green. :uzi: :crazy1:

I think many people make the mistake of treating spath like chunky milli. Spath color up best in much lower light than milli and their multi colored pigments are best revealed when you orient the piece so it grows towards the viewing glass. Milli's on the other hand always reveal much more of their beautiful colored scale like corallite lips if you have them growing away from your viewing window. When i say away and forwards i don't mean they have to be dead straight, i just mean you will see more colored tissue that is ALWAYS on the acro if you place them in a general sweeping arc one way or another. Sideways left or right will always give you a decent view of the pigments so that's generally a good place to start if you're unsure.

When you then find a spot just right you discover the flow is opposite to what the acro likes.......... welcome to the joys of acro scaping with branches - small frags will adapt to flow but branch ends snapped off the end of a twenty year old delicate table will most definitely spit the dummy if you upset them with bad flow when they're already upset about collection and transport ..........

I fell prey. I put the Spath in PAR of about 450 umols. Maybe I'm burning the green out of it. :furious: Hehe. Either way, I'm liking it more these days. It may change quite a bit yet since I had that dosing fiasco and everything is a bit poo poo right now.

You bring up a very good point about flow. My tank is quite small, and fairly full, so I have limited options. I do however put all new Acros on the sand for a few weeks, and have been unconsciously turning them so the flow runs along their growth like you say, but only because I've noticed wild Acros like this spot in my tank, and I'm betting it has a lot to do with the flow! Very good observance Andrew!!! Thank you for sharing. It makes a lot of sense. I think back to my old Acro tank, and I did the same thing in that tank too - there was a special spot for new wild Acros.

I'm sure you'll get a nice echi branch sooner or later Mindy, i love echi's :thumbsup:

Well, I picked up a pretty little maricultured Tenuis last week. I think it does have a green base to it, but it has a color pattern that looks a lot like Home Wrecker, so I'll give it a chance. It sat at the shop for 2 weeks, and had semi-bleached/browned out, so no one was looking at it. It didn't look too exciting when it came in, but was already half brown on arrival. I take all the pics at that shop for marketing, and I took a pic of it. Messed around with exposure a bit, and realized that pic won't make it to market. It's going in my tank.

So until I find an Echi or two, I'll just keep buying Tenuis because they are a second fav. So fuzzy and cute.

I think i'll have an echi ramble shortly because there's a lot more color variants out there than bloody icefire and while we're at it there is real icefire and then there's overexposed pic icefire which most have. In general there are four blue echi color variants i have seen over the years, might be more but these are what i've personally come across.

Classic icefire blue/white we all know
Light pastel blues with deeper pastel blue tips
Deep blue skin with intensely ink blue tips
All deep solid blue with fluoro polyps

The first three i can tell you exactly how to pick from each other even when pale and washed out. The fourth is down to pure arse and you get to see it if you come and visit me in person - my close inner circle of acro friends all have special pieces that we only share among each other and never show online. It's like acro fight club and the rarer or more one off the piece is, the better :thumbsup:

I'll take Echi any way I can get it. :hmm4: Send me PM pics!!! I won't tell.

 

[biggles]

Two weeks ago i made a couple of simple but major changes to my water keeping and the result has been dramatic in regards to the acros colors and overall health. The entire display is looking cleaner and brighter, John said it looked like the fish were floating in air not swimming in water lol.

Anyway, i have a number of ' the house is on fire save the best acros ! ' pieces and Bulent's Bliss would be sharing a bucket with the fireworks acro when i broke into Dave's shop at 2am to put my babies back in water. Obviously i'd send Dave a text along the lines of

' Dom and i had to break into your shop to save my babies - thanks mate '

I'd make Dom help me just in case the alarm went off and the police showed up. I know i could easily outrun Dom if the cops chased us and i'd yell ' he's got a knife ' to make sure both cops jumped on him rather than split up. Dom's a chef so for all i know he probably would have a knife on him..........:reading:

Planning for a tank disaster is a lot more involved than many of you realize - having a good (but slower) reef mate by your side when your acros are in trouble makes it a lot less stressful :thumbsup:

I started snapping bits off the blue tennuis in readiness to putty over a big chunk of it so Bulent's bliss can encrust over a larger area when i realized i had no putty left........ stay of execution nothing more........

 

[DiscusHeckel]

Two weeks ago i made a couple of simple but major changes to my water keeping and the result has been dramatic in regards to the acros colors and overall health. The entire display is looking cleaner and brighter, John said it looked like the fish were floating in air not swimming in water lol.

Would you mind sharing your new water keeping practices please Andrew? Have you started to dose ozone by any chance?

I love the Acro you have named after me :wave:. I have never seen it in the UK.

Cheers

Bülent

PS. Star polyps seem to be getting uncomfortably closer to your Acros. I have noticed that there is a direct relationship between nutrient levels and the speed with which their population increases.

 

[biggles]

Would you mind sharing your new water keeping practices please Andrew? Have you started to dose ozone by any chance?

I love the Acro you have named after me :wave:. I have never seen it in the UK.

Cheers

Bülent

PS. Star polyps seem to be getting uncomfortably closer to your Acros. I have noticed that there is a direct relationship between nutrient levels and the speed with which their population increases.

Hey Bulent, your acro is the center piece of the right island. It's a very different pigment to the classic rusty reds like the firetruck and other similar pigments i have. When i lose reds and pinks due to who knows what level being out i've always noticed that Bulent's Bliss remains quite colorful regardless. If you had it in your tank and did something to lose your SSC pink/red pigments you would see that your Bulent's Bliss frag remained colorful - it's one of the attributes that places it in my favorites basket

The star polyps annoy the hell out of me as do the aiptasia but i'll get onto dealing with both soon. You're right about the polyps growing faster the more nutrient rich the water.

All i did was change to red sea blue salt and run a 100 micron sock 24/7 so the matrix in the next chamber remains clean. Every time i do a water change the next day the acros smile just a little brighter for me. Whatever was wrong with my water seems to be well and truly on the mend so i'm not changing anything again

I give the blue bucket a cuddle every now and then..........:love2:

This acro is the one that makes you pause when the house is burning in the middle of the night......... wake the wife OR save the fireworks......... remember - think it through now so you're ready when the fire brigade guys ask you why you're standing on the front lawn holding a purple coral as your house burns to the ground............ i can't stress it enough people, success in SPS keeping comes down to covering ALL your bases ! :thumbsup:

 

[Oldude]

Impressive as always Andrew

 

[biggles]

Impressive as always Andrew

Thanks Greg, hopefully i keep things heading in the right direction mate

Nick from Sustainable Reefs gave me this frag from his personal collection, it's going to be rather tasty despite spending time on my neighbors roof......... porny pic so you can see what it's recently started doing in relation to growth and colors.

 

[reefmutt]

That fireworks is just a tiny bit ridiculous.
I might be burning down my house for the insurance money just to afford flying to your house and steal it.

 

[bgouges]

Gday Biggles love the tank! The polyps on that fireworks are to die for. Any update on this peice? Looked very promising!!!
Cheers mate

Very cool stuff Christian although not as cool as the piece you sent Deer Park before Xmas........ thanks mate, hope you and Nick and everyone at Sustainable Reefs have a great 2017

In theory i could give this frag of fireworks to Dave and Nick could get it to you and you could grow the you know what out of it and send it overseas.......

 

[biggles]

That fireworks is just a tiny bit ridiculous.
I might be burning down my house for the insurance money just to afford flying to your house and steal it.

It's a nice acro for sure Matt

Can you imagine what our displays would look like if we could all meet up in one place for a day and swap frags - no money allowed, just crazy acro porn swapping among mates............ stuff of dreams.......

Gday Biggles love the tank! The polyps on that fireworks are to die for. Any update on this peice? Looked very promising!!!
Cheers mate

Hi mate, it's currently recovering from all the BS i put the tank through. Looks like dirty salmon pink vomit with little sparkly bits on some of the tips atm lol. I'm sure i'll have it looking much better in a month now the tank has settled down. It's not quite as bad as the pic shows, fireworks never looks as blah as the way i processed the pic.

Btw, has anyone express posted an acro frag to W.A. from Melbourne successfully or does it take too long to arrive - as long as the water stays down around 16C it will be fine.

 

[reefmutt]

Imagine.... good reason to play the lottery every week. If I win, I'll organize an international frag swap at the biggles manor.
I think I like that blue and white stick better than the fireworks, in that photo, Andrew. I have a serious weakness for that colour combo.. probably because I can never keep corals with that are true blue and white.

 

[ryanrid]

Can you imagine what our displays would look like if we could all meet up in one place for a day and swap frags - no money allowed, just crazy acro porn swapping among mates............ stuff of dreams.......

one could say wet dreams...