Hmmm, so that's what that is. I'm really bad at coral names. I have a coral that I raised from a thumbnail piece of brown blob about 6 years ago. It turned into a table top coral the size of a shoe. It grew the most under vho in my old 40 breeder. Then I went to a 135 w/ MH's and placed it way up top where it grew but didn't have the same depth of color.
Then around the time my daughter was born my tank went south and that coral suffered but survived. The coral had grown so well that it was shading the top left side of the tank. So I sawed the coral off the rock it had grown on, then sawed a 1/3rd chunk off the main piece that was the size of a hot dog bun. (that just comes to mind).
The small piece I kept and I gave the larger piece to my friend and LFSO. He placed the coral in his off limits tank that was in his back office. That tank was a vho only tank that everything thrived in as it was a well established tank. The coral colored up like I'd never knew it could. When I had the coral it was a nice brown base with green polyps above the brown and purple tips. In his tank it turned a brilliant purple base and tips with a green overlay of polyps, as well as I can explain.
It was such an awsome coral that anyone who saw the coral wanted to buy it but he wouldn't sell it. Then he told me one day when I noticed it was missing that he sold it to a very well established and long time reefer friend that payed handsomely for it. He kept justa small frag in his front tank.
I later learned that the lady that bought the frag started having health issues, then her tank crashed hard and that coral with many others was lost.
I still have my big chunk in my tank which is placed at the bottom of a 31" tank under 10k's and vho's. It looks awsome but I know it has never reached the brilliance the same coral did under strict vho in a shallower tank. When I take my magnifying glass to it with all the lights on it's an awsome coral.
In this pic from my gallery you can see the coral at the bottom at the tail of the yellow tang. It's the brown one on the diagonal.
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Here's another pic which is terrible on the cameras part. If I had a good camera and could catch the true color of this coral you'd be amazed.
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