A Splash of Color

biggles said:
The growth on mine is thicker than when i bought it due to the slow growth where the tips thicken slowly rather than extend in the classic shooting tip look. If you look at the last pic from front on you can see the tips starting to 'shoot' and as such they are thinner than back further into the colony where the original tips have been pretty much sitting blue and stagnant for many months.
These tips are the same diameter as the ones you see on the original piece and if you look closely you can see a violet tinge rather than pure blue on the new tips, i think the entire thing will return to a violet blue color when all the visible tips are growing. I think it's so crazy blue because it's been stagnant.
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Yeah, I see this in Bali Aquaculture colonies a lot. The new growth looks nothing like the "wild" growth. It can make it awfully difficult to ID what the species may be! I'va also seen the same thing in regards to color - they get super color saturated in their "old" growth, and the new growth is significantly lighter. However, this makes a nice contrast in larger colonies when there is a darker base an lighter growth tips. Besides, every Acroholic knows white growth tips means you can grow an Acro like nobody's business. :D

I have a nasuta with those sweet dark purple/blue polyps too - I'm not sure what it's doing in my tank yet, it's been stagnant for a long time, but I'm seeing a couple of growth tips popping up at the base in the last few weeks.
 
It's always a treat popping in here and checking out all the gems. A pikachu is high up on my want list too. Great stuff as always Andrew.
 
Andrew,
I'm trying to see what you look for in acros for coloration and potential. I've not been successful with acros or sps in the past long term due to constant PO4 issues. Scrapping the rock which came loaded with PO4 and starting the tank over again has resolved that issue, so I'm looking forward to phase 2 of my rebuild which is stocking with acros....which is why I'm trying to see what you look for in acros.



I wont be buying this piece since I'm ready just yet for it......but I'd like to get your take on it:

http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/ItemDisplay.cfm?c=2733+2&ddid=323606

I see nice pinks and yellows there....but is that a pastely acro cause it's starved of nutrients, or is that a good one to look for?

Thanks for your time.
 
@MaxxII

To me, it looks like a light pink on new growth, orange or red polyps (they look white up top though), Flouro green around the corallites with blue internal corallite "pedals", and a green body.

So basically. Green with some specs of blue with flouro green. Polyps may be orange, red, or green/flouro. The flouro green rim may turn yellow. I do not have enough experience to say.

It looks like they heavily manipulated the color, since there's absolutely no definition to the black background sand (also a tactic to create more contrast and make a poopy coral pop)
 
Dave just sent me some pics he took of the shipment unpacking tonight with the stinking Thursday night Deer Park biggle's acros stealing convention..........:twitch:

It's painful even for me to look at, i will process them and post them............. remember - these are already gone so i find it a tad twisted and cruel of Dave to do this to me every Thursday night.......... but i still want to see them......... but i don't sort of............ bloody acros :facepalm:

And no, i am a cut his nose off to spite his face guy so i'm not going to Thursday night no matter how bad it gets. You will all be joining in the misery viewing of stuff we can't play with.......:p

This is the same pigment scheme as the blue table you all like. This piece would turn completely saturated mauvey/blue from top to bottom in my system because i have two tables that shared the same pattern and looked identical pearl skin - inside knowledge ;)

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Just for you Flo :)

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I sent Dave a text asking him to pick the best three left for my friend from Vienna - this is what he picked out for you Flo, how's that for service :)

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What hurts even more is that all the colonies you've shown are mini colonies which I could still cram into my tank. each photo I look at, my brain is instantly placing them in my tank...

I must look away...
I can't look away.
 
I've been looking for an acro resembling the beautiful pearlberry you guys keep and this would have come awfully close i reckon Matt - told you it's painful at times lol.

But you still gotta look like me don't ya mate :)

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Btw has anyone noticed the last pic posted on Dave's FB page, the expensive looking wrasse thing......... i think that might be the one Dom is buying for me as a surprise 'make up for the whole cruel voucher thing' present......:dance:
 
biggles said:
I've been looking for an acro resembling the beautiful pearlberry you guys keep and this would have come awfully close i reckon Matt - told you it's painful at times lol.

But you still gotta look like me don't ya mate :)

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I'm not sure what my imagination is making hurt more, right now..
Not being able to put that in my tank or the thought of sitting on a plane for 16 hours with that little beaut lodged where the sun don't shine.
 
reefmutt said:
I'm not sure what my imagination is making hurt more, right now..
Not being able to put that in my tank or the thought of sitting on a plane for 16 hours with that little beaut lodged where the sun don't shine.
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37 degrees for 16 hours - no way Matty. Definitely going to need to pop in a few ice cubes every couple of hours during the flight mate or it'll RTN for sure.
Just get a drink with ice - not vodka, that burns (apparently) and keep getting then throughout the journey - this is basic acro smuggling info but noobs mightn't know how we really get the AAA stuff.
 
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