Let's see your orange passion!

[reefmutt]

I'm curios to see what people are getting out of their orange passion and what your basic water params are: lighting, n and p and height in the tank, mostly..
Here's a couple of photos of mine over the past several months.. I have never been able to get the orange polyps that make this coral so special...
June 21

July 26

Sept 23

Nov 07


I run t5/mh. It is up high. n: 3. p: .08
When I first got it, it had nice yellow/orange polyps (I guess there hints of this in the first photo) but lost them within weeks of being in my system...

I would love to see what others have done with their orange passions..

 

[swk]

Mine has the bright yellow polyps. Under t5 at around 400 par. I'll try to get a shot tonight. I was told by Adam at BC that you need really high lighting to get the yellow polyps. So far he has been correct in my tank.

 

[reefmutt]

Pleas post a shot or two if you can. Love to see it. Mine is directly below a 150w de radium but flanked by two 250w radiums. 8 inches from the surface..
What are your n and p numbers?

 

[swk]

Pleas post a shot or two if you can. Love to see it. Mine is directly below a 150w de radium but flanked by two 250w radiums. 8 inches from the surface..
What are your n and p numbers?

Nitrate is around 2.5 per salifert

Po4 is .04-ish

 

[swk]

Is yours the RR or SC?

 

[swk]

Here's mine. Just an iPhone pic that was manipulated to reflect what I see with my eyes.

 

[vinhle00]

So i need high par to get the orange ehh?? time to move mine up!

 

[reefmutt]

Is yours the RR or SC?

Good question!
Mine is the RR Canada orange passion.
I didn't know there was really more than one orange passion.

 

[reefmutt]

So i need high par to get the orange ehh?? time to move mine up!

It is my understanding that orange passion is a. tenuis. I'm certainly not sure about that but tenuis is a pretty adaptive species.
I'd be curious to see if it changes colour when you more it up..

 

[SeargentSlice]

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Here is mine its Sexy corals OP it is believed to be the same as RR I have only had it a few weeks so its on the bottom glass acclimating. I will revisit in a few months with another pic. It has orange polyps but hard to tell in the ipone pic my friend has frag of same colony under t5 with dark orange polyps we will see what it does under my lighting.

 

[M007]

I've seen a number of pretty OP frags, wondering if anyone has a monster colony, complete with orange polyps :bigeyes:

 

[reefmutt]

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Here is mine its Sexy corals OP it is believed to be the same as RR I have only had it a few weeks so its on the bottom glass acclimating. I will revisit in a few months with another pic. It has orange polyps but hard to tell in the ipone pic my friend has frag of same colony under t5 with dark orange polyps we will see what it does under my lighting.

Very nice. This is exactly what mine looked like when I first got it. Nice orange polyps..

I've seen a number of pretty OP frags, wondering if anyone has a monster colony, complete with orange polyps :bigeyes:

Me too! I'd love to see a large colony with the orange polyps..
I suspect the very low nutrients are needed for the orange but I really don't know..

 

[EuroGTI]

Here's our big colony. Been growing 3 years now.
Untitled by alex barreto, on Flickr

 

[SoloGarth]

Here's our big colony. Been growing 3 years now.
Untitled by alex barreto, on Flickr

Wow. That is awesome. From what I saw doing a brief search frags of this are going for ~200$?

 

[vinhle00]

woah, thats a beast man... Can you tell us where you have it in the tank and if it prefer lower nutrient or a slightly dirty tank.

 

[reefmutt]

Here's our big colony. Been growing 3 years now.
Untitled by alex barreto, on Flickr

Wow!! A stunner! Really nice!!
Is this a shot with blue LEDs only?

woah, thats a beast man... Can you tell us where you have it in the tank and if it prefer lower nutrient or a slightly dirty tank.

+1 would love to know what lighting you have it under and where your n and p are.
..and maybe I'm pushing it but what about a fts?
Thanks for posting that beauty!

 

[plyle02]

Oh Matt, you had to post this didn't you, I have saved some money getting ready for the silly season, but I have to admit that I am getting the itch to add this one to my collection, lol.. Beautiful coral, EuroGTI, that is one beautiful colony, WOW!!!

 

[reefmutt]

Yep!!!
When an Orange Passion is looking the way it should, as demonstrated above.. Thanks EuroGTI, it is easily up there as one of the nicest corals out there.
I'm going to have to try to find one from a different source and see how it grows..

 

[reeflover62]

Show off Alex nice picture. Mine is from sexy corals. It lost the orange but I still think its beautiful.

 

[vinhle00]

LOL it doesn't look like you're far from getting that orange back. Maybe just a little more tweaking of something and that's what we're trying to find out.