ORA Plum Crazy

[JasonKlink]

I'll looking to place a frag of ORA Plum Crazy. Can anyone give me any insight to what PAR they've found best for this coral. What type of flow? Does anyone have a pic of their colony?

 

[peequin]

I don't have a PAR meter, but mine likes the light, up high in the tank. I'm running them directly under 3 ecoxotic panorama pro strips. The tips put out a nice deep blue, almost turquoise. The body is a nice purple and pink color.

Mine is located almost directly in front of an MP-10. I noticed with increased flow it grows tighter, and more visually appealing IMO.

 

[peequin]

Here is another shot. It's actually a more recent shot. And you can see how the tip growth is a lot tighter after I added an MP-10.

 

[Reef Bass]

One of my favorites. I've lost it, twice, due to "operator error" . In my experience, it likes high light and high flow. Here's a macro of one of mine:

 

[cromegu]

Wow spectacular shot!

One of my favorites. I've lost it, twice, due to "operator error" . In my experience, it likes high light and high flow. Here's a macro of one of mine:

 

[JasonKlink]

Awesome pic! Do you have a pic of the colony?

Were you running 400W mh when you had it up high? How far up in the tank was it?

 

[Reef Bass]

Here's a pic of my second one which never got quite as "plummy" as my first.

Yes, it was roughly 4" underwater beneath 400w 20,000K Radiums, which were roughly 8" off the water over the open top tank. That sounds like a lot of light, but my reflectors are not very efficient. As I recall, par there was between 400 and 500.