Ice Fire eye candy...

[29reef]

Guess I should have named this thread the great ice fire enchinata debate.

 

[SDguy]

That Aussie piece is much nicer imo.

That could be it...........they need to grow out more from the branch to show the straight out growth which gives each branch that cylindrical bottle brush look.

If anyone would give these a chance to grow, a large colony would make an unreal centerpiece. Too much flow is going to give them a clumpy messy look instead of the long bottle brush branches.

I imagine large clumbsy fish would be a problem too. My tang has taken out few branches over the years.

I remember seeing some AMAZING echinata pics on the AIMS site... is that still around?

 

[29reef]

Peter, you can get to some of the pages via a google search for the specific species. I also believe the zeo forums have an archive for sps IDs. I do agree with the photos for ids; the yellow and purple one is AMAZING!

 

[Creetin]

I remember seeing some AMAZING echinata pics on the AIMS site... is that still around?

Very nice coral ya have there!

I have not been able to access the aims site in quite awhile. Shame too. I usually looked in there a few times a week.

 

[SDguy]

the yellow and purple one is AMAZING!

Yup, that's the pic I was thinking of! I wonder what it would look like in tank lighting?

 

[KJAhp098]

Here's my little guy.

 

[29reef]

Yup, that's the pic I was thinking of! I wonder what it would look like in tank lighting?

I would guess the first one would be one very $$$$ acro.

This species is very nice. I can't wait to see what a few years in captivity can do for it!

 

[TheCoralFarmer]

Very nice pics

 

[Big E]

I remember seeing some AMAZING echinata pics on the AIMS site... is that still around?

The AIMS coral ID & search has been out of commission for a long time. Most of the pictures they had were the same as the ones in Veron's Books.

 

[isseym328]

Karl's ice/fire echinata might actually be a speciosa, and there's a discussion of this between Erik and I in his tank thread. If you look at the structure between the echinata and speciosa in Veron, and compare to the true ice/fire you can see which one it resembles more.

 

[isseym328]

 

[29reef]

I don't know exactly where mine came from originally, but I believe the source when he says it's the "true" version. Having said that, the coral shown above looks nothing like mine in shape of the coral or coralites. This can be caused by tank conditions or different species...acros are so dang difficult to ID sometimes so let's maybe try and keep the topic to photos and not what species the coral is. :uzi::uzi::eek1:

 

[mgny]

Here is mine. grown from a small frag from caddisfly.

 

[SDguy]

I don't know exactly where mine came from originally, but I believe the source when he says it's the "true" version. Having said that, the coral shown above looks nothing like mine in shape of the coral or coralites. This can be caused by tank conditions or different species...acros are so dang difficult to ID sometimes so let's maybe try and keep the topic to photos and not what species the coral is. :uzi::uzi::eek1:

I think we are too fixated on those beautiful pics from unarce. They're the only ones I ever see. Acros can vary dramatically depending on tank conditions.

 

[isseym328]

I agree corals in general look different and varies depending on tank parameters. However with echinata and speciosa you can clearly see the difference, yet many people sell both as the real deal echinata. That I don't agree with.

Karl personally handed me a frag of his ice fire, and it is no doubt one of the coolest acros out there.

 

[aquascene]

echinata

echinata

Good to see this coral is still around.

 

[DreamMachine]

I think we are too fixated on those beautiful pics from unarce. They're the only ones I ever see. Acros can vary dramatically depending on tank conditions.

Who is fixated? If these are the only ones you ever see, you might try looking harder :lol:

 

[reefried]

those look sweet

 

[rxx2]

James from Aquascene, what's up.
Miss those days of you going to LA and bringing back some sweet stuff.
Still have a tank?

 

[29reef]

Dream machine- Do you have a photo from the front? Your coral looks like it's of decent size. Amazing colors on it IMO! Still waiting on that FTS...