Anyone seen this before, bi-color millie?

[Acrotrdco]

My new bi-color millie, I think it's a similar species as sunset millie, but it's got a very distinctive color, with top half being pink and bottom half being green, with green polyps.

 

[Dog boy Dave]

nice piece

 

[29reef]

A millipora is a species of Acropora so they would likely be the same species However the color looks different than the sunset to me. Millipora seems to be commonly found with 2 or more colors. I like your specimen a lot. Do you have any photos with all the polyps extended? When you say new I'm guessing it's wild? How long have you had it?

 

[Acrotrdco]

Yeah it's harvested from the ocean, from Indonesia, I think they've got some marine-culture programme in place, so by seeding frags and harvesting them a year later.

I've just got it yesterday, I'll take some more photos later, PE should improve when it stabilizes, you should see better PE in the second photo, it's taken after a few hours from the first one.

 

[jg2269jg]

very nice piece. like the colors alot. good luck with the wild acros i have always found that they tend to brown out at any change

 

[Tony B (UK)]

That's a nice acropora! :fun2:

 

[Acrotrdco]

very nice piece. like the colors alot. good luck with the wild acros i have always found that they tend to brown out at any change

I think it might change its color a bit, but I've managed to keep a few other millie colonies (see below) also harvested from the sea, without browning out.

Given the right water condition, flow and light, they'll do just fine.

 

[d-man]

i had the same colors from a lfs here. The first peice rtn from prob all the hacking the lfs did, The second mini colony lasted 3 days then rtn'd. No other pcs in my tank have done so, and i even put a ssc, pastel blue acro, setosa and a few others in 4-5 days after and all those were fine. Dont know why the rainbow milli didnt do well.

 

[gasman059]

many if not all maricultured millis do have different colors-- in time it will all be one solid color.

 

[allsps40]

Nice piece. Hope ypu can keep the color.

 

[rogerwilco357]

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My new bi-color millie, I think it's a similar species as sunset millie, but it's got a very distinctive color, with top half being pink and bottom half being green, with green polyps.

I have seen it 2 or 3 times one on ebay and the other my friend bought and fragged the other at mr.corals site same one fragged out

 

[n0rk]

We see ones off the GBR like that quite regularly not a bad piece at all.

 

[SPSEMPIRE]

it is one a maricultured plug? Yep, I see it quite often but it is a really nice acro. I've seen it called watermelon millie before as a trade name.

 

[Acronymous]

I had a yellow bodied, pinkish-red, baby blue-tipped mille. turned solid blue with brown polyps (I keep telling myself that it's turning red). Milles and prostratas are very colorful acros but change colors easily

 

[Acronymous]

Btw, nice piece and gl with it. keep us updated on how it turns out

 

[Acrotrdco]

i had the same colors from a lfs here. The first peice rtn from prob all the hacking the lfs did, The second mini colony lasted 3 days then rtn'd. No other pcs in my tank have done so, and i even put a ssc, pastel blue acro, setosa and a few others in 4-5 days after and all those were fine. Dont know why the rainbow milli didnt do well.

These colors are seasonal I think, their "skin" is relatively thin and will easily RTN if not careful. I usually also add 2mL of Iodine additive to my tank (65 gallon) when I introduce new frags, it seems to help.

many if not all maricultured millis do have different colors-- in time it will all be one solid color.

Nice piece. Hope ypu can keep the color.

Yes it'll be very difficult to keep the color, especially the fluorescent pigment.

I have seen it 2 or 3 times one on ebay and the other my friend bought and fragged the other at mr.corals site same one fragged out

We see ones off the GBR like that quite regularly not a bad piece at all.

Cheers!

it is one a maricultured plug? Yep, I see it quite often but it is a really nice acro. I've seen it called watermelon millie before as a trade name.

I think it's maricultured, but I'm not 100% sure. These colonies usually come with a symbiotic crab as well.

I had a yellow bodied, pinkish-red, baby blue-tipped mille. turned solid blue with brown polyps (I keep telling myself that it's turning red). Milles and prostratas are very colorful acros but change colors easily

Haha yeah I totally understand what you mean!

Here's some new shots:

The millie under arctinic:

 

[MedicBMC]

I saw a huge colony of that came into one of the LFS around OC. Very beautiful piece!

 

[Acronymous]

Nice!