Acropora spathulata experiences?

[therman]

Now that these have been coming in for a while (the fat Aussie "mille"), how have they fared for everyone? Growth? Coloration? Hardiness?

Looking to order some frags soon and wondering if they are worth the price.

Thanks!
Tim

 

[MammothReefer]

Had mine for a while now, very hardy lost the colour but it is slowly (and I mean PAINFULLY slowly) coming back in. Still however it's super fuzzy which is nice. The under side of it gives me a scare now and then as it does a good job of shading since the branches are so thick. I had a single frag of it I took off when I first got it and the frag was doing great, but I traded it away a while ago. I've been thinking of snipping off some of the shaded/underside branches to give them a chance to colour back up and grow out.

 

[Dejavu]

I have had mine for a few months now and it doing well. I have heard alot of other people that have not had good luck with them, but for me so far all is good.

 

[Ron Popeil]

can any of you post pictures of yours?

 

[dudley moray]

 

[MammothReefer]

can any of you post pictures of yours?

Sure

The "Sellers Pictures"

What it looked like in my 34g w/a phoenix 14k

and here it sits (sorry not a close up) browner..then brown. .but hairy and seemingly happy.. with little bits of colour coming back slowly (between the yellow tang, and the green table/stag hybrid weirdness

 

[fishez4alivin]

I got this piece locally and it was browned out, with lighter tips, I've had it just over a month and a half. It is coloring steadily, under my leds at night, it pops
When I got it

and now, and it has a lot of nubs pushing out, so it's growing a bit....this is today under LED's probably a few more months at least to color up

 

[NewSchool04]

That is a very cool looking acro. I would definitely like me some of that.

 

[Acronic]

that last pic is mind blasting

 

[therman]

Sux I'm probably paying colony prices for frags, but there's just nowhere to get these around here. Hopefully the frags do well.

 

[Dejavu]

Here mine after I got it. I need to get newer pics, as it is much more yellow now.

 

[Ron Popeil]

what i like best about this species is the color change transition from the top to bottom. really nice.

 

[therman]

Bump, how are these doing for people? I have a couple frags I've had for pushing 10 months now, encrusting reasonably well and starting to color back up. Might have a couple colonies in 4 years or so

Post some photos if you have a piece that is growing well in your tank. I'm curious to see how the morphology is going to change in a captive situation.

Tim

 

[psteeleb]

I picked up this random coral and when I got it home was thinking it could be a spathulata due to the coloration and coralite arangements but not sure due to it being a much more tight cluster. regardless it's a nice looking acropora

right after I aclimated it

a couple days later

 

[64Ivy]

My little colony came in brown, stayed brown, then died. As a big Millepora fan, however, I DO like the look of them when they succeed in a reeftank and may give it another go some day, perhaps when they begin showing up as aquacultured frags rather than chopped up wild colonies.

 

[MammothReefer]

i lost all of mine but a tiny nub when I had a mess with RCSP. it's growing back though

 

[SDguy]

I have a frag (on the left) that has encrusted well...color is just so so. Haven't decided where to mount it yet. I have another mini-colony of something aussie... looks bigger than a mille but smaller than a spathulata, so I'm not sure what it is... But it's doing well.

 

[therman]

Sounds like I should be happy just having some frags that are still alive.

Seems like all the Australian corals came in at once and are hard to find now. Is there a season on them? I got mine in March last year when echinata frags were everywhere.

 

[dvanacker]

I picked up this random coral and when I got it home was thinking it could be a spathulata due to the coloration and coralite arangements but not sure due to it being a much more tight cluster. regardless it's a nice looking acropora

Yes regardless its a nice acro but I don't think its spathulata IMO.

 

[Big E]

That's the issue though............is spathulata even a seperate species? Veron dosen't recognize it anthing more than a millepora that gets heavy reef crest flow.

The two tone colors & being from Aus. might be all that makes it different.............not sure the corallite structure is different.