flipteg
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i just bought this acropora... it is really green with purplish polyps, especially the polyps that get the most light... the polyps at the bottom that do not get a lot of light are still green though... i've been looking online trying to find other pictures like this, but it's kinda tough since i don't know what it's called... also please post pictures of yours like this in any color... 
... i bought this from the "$59.99 tank"... right beside it, in the "$119.99 tank" is another coral just like this one but a little bit bigger and the purple polyps are so much darker... i assumed that this is from the same colony as that one and i'm hoping the polyps color up like the one the store has for $119.99... i just couldn't afford to pay double the price...
also as you can see in the picture, the way the coral is growing, it is casting shadows on a lot of it's parts... i have it as close to my light as possible... the highest tip is about 6" below the water line and the light is another 6" from there... this is only my second "big" acropora... the other one i have has it's branches growing more spread out, so light can get in better... i'm just not sure if this green one would be ok with so much shadows...
this is the other acropora i was talking about...
... i bought this from the "$59.99 tank"... right beside it, in the "$119.99 tank" is another coral just like this one but a little bit bigger and the purple polyps are so much darker... i assumed that this is from the same colony as that one and i'm hoping the polyps color up like the one the store has for $119.99... i just couldn't afford to pay double the price...also as you can see in the picture, the way the coral is growing, it is casting shadows on a lot of it's parts... i have it as close to my light as possible... the highest tip is about 6" below the water line and the light is another 6" from there... this is only my second "big" acropora... the other one i have has it's branches growing more spread out, so light can get in better... i'm just not sure if this green one would be ok with so much shadows...
this is the other acropora i was talking about...
