<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10232549#post10232549 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Marko9
Yep, But I got an ORA piece that grows twice as fast as one I got from John. I bought them in the same week. They are both up high in the tank, if anything, the ORA gets less light.
The ORA has grown twice as much as the other. ORA has produced so many more generations of this coral that it reponds quicker in many tanks. I think the ORA pieces are great. Great colors and quick growers.
I think I may understand your point
But it is definately debateable
Of course I can't argue with what you see in your tank
But at the same time I hold it with a grain of salt, no pun intended. Even the slightest difference can cause dramatic differences, moreso flow, but light included. I have a 2 sticks of the same coral 1' apart, with only the slightest variant of light and flow(which lies me to my own grain of salt, ones perceptions of what are same and what is different and what is only slightly different?) The one up slightly higher is has encrusted half of a 5" rock and is about 4x4" the one only 4" lower is about 6x7 with only a silver dollar size of encrusting base.
With the generation thing, personally I think the cali tort has been propogated more. That will probably quickly change soon since ORA has picked up the pieces and is no longer on hiatus, and are again increasing in popularity. But still there is a huge world buying,growing, trading and selling outside of the internet and club forums. Like we all hear we are but 10% of the buying force. And there were quite a few years of sporatic exchanging before ORA started consistantly producing them.
Another difference that competes with the theory of aquaculture cali vs ORA is how many different tanks the cali has been propagated from across the globe as opposed to being propagated from one system, that uses NSW. The cali by theory and potential should be much more resiliant being exposed to a plethera of different closed systems of various hobbyists in turn again by theory increasing it's tolerance to aquaria.
In my own situation I heard about the Cali-tort long before and much more frequent than ORA's blut tort became popular and then everyone was informed of the distribution of the original colony.
-Justin
