New Aussie Echinata coloration

[slojmn]

The fish systems at the DD facility in Rhinelander have much different lighting over them than the coral vats do, i.e no 400w 20K's. I believe they shoot the images the day the corals go on the website, not when first imported. I have noticed that some wild colonies will lose color in shipping, but I have not seen this happen with any aquacultured or maricultured pieces from them, and the wild ones always color back up fairly quickly.

Either way, that is one sweet coral, Alicia. :beer:

You are so right. The fish systems are not going to have all that MH over them. This does make for better picture taking. I fully believe that it lost a lot of color in shipping and over time it will come back. The originl DD picture shows the potential . Thanks for the compliment and I am very happy with it. Now I am just crossing my fingers that it survives. One week down and the polyps are still out all of the time. The one month mark will be the next big test.

 

[Whisperer]

^^

I dont think that is a.echinata. Very nice color though. Maybe a.subglabra??

Negatory on the subglabra.
Check out the echinta pic on ARKive.org
Here's an older pic, with flash

 

[dvanacker]

I checked it out....I still dont think what you have is echinata...but its JMO.

 

[Whisperer]

I take it you don't have one. I was going to ask for your echinata's pic. There appears to be a few corals that are called echinata . I have one that has longer branches but got burnt tips from falling against another coral.
Just got this yesterday and just mounted. They call this echinata too,

They are pretty spensive.

 

[dvanacker]

I take it you don't have one. I was going to ask for your echinata's pic. There appears to be a few corals that are called echinata . I have one that has longer branches but got burnt tips from falling against another coral.
Just got this yesterday and just mounted. They call this echinata too,

They are pretty spensive.

Why would you assume I dont have an echinata. When you assume you know what happens.

Geez...I dont know why you are taking offense to the fact that I think your beautiful coral (nice job colouring it up too) is not an echinata (maybe a.speciosa?). Too me it looks different that all the echinata posted so far, even your new one does not look like your old one. This is JMO...so no reason to get offended and of course I could be wrong.

anyway here is an pic of mine when I first got it a couple of months ago. And mine wasnt very expenisive.

 

[Whisperer]

There, there, so you have one and it's nice. It's about time that you post a pic. Just because everyone else's don't look like yours doesn't mean they are not echinata. Yours is a Turaki. Hah! J/K

 

[Bdimas]

Got this from Extreme Corals,

closer

No flash, no photoshop.

I dont think this is a echinata either. Maybe Sp.

 

[Bdimas]

I take it you don't have one. I was going to ask for your echinata's pic. There appears to be a few corals that are called echinata . I have one that has longer branches but got burnt tips from falling against another coral.
Just got this yesterday and just mounted. They call this echinata too,

They are pretty spensive.

I do believe this one to be echinata and once it colors up it should be super nice! Gl with it.

 

[Whisperer]

What's Sp.?

 

[Bdimas]

Speciosa.

 

[fijiblue]

Hate to say it, but I agree with it not being an echinata. Beautiful piece, though.

GBD - you say that is an older pic - can you take a recent one?