ORA red planet

What I really need to see is some pix of ORA's red planet fully grown out into a large colony in high flow. (If grown in low flow it will look like a stag.)

Sorry for the double post.

I'll try to get some pictures for you. Mine tables and grows off one end like a fan where it has reached the end of the supprting rock.. The other samller one is in lower light and flow . It's a bit more green, but still tables.
 
maybe I'm wrong... but

maybe I'm wrong... but

coincidences? I don't think so.
As hardy as the green hairy monster is I think the red table is even more tolerant of different conditions. Both have the potential for explosive table like growth.
 
I agree seems to be very hardy. The large purple pillows I have (from an ORA frag about 5 years ago) also came through without a scratch.
 
Gary G., I got a frag of it from you about 31/2 years ago. I don't know if you remember or not we met at cf in the parking lot. It has since grown into a nice colony. Steve Helinski bought a couple of frags from me at the swapmeet in Buffalo at Randy O's before it was a reef creation.
 
Hey guys!

Here's the coral I call my "pink/red with green base tabling acro."

PB160003.jpg


This was taken today. It is presently under (6) 54w T-5's. (3) 420nm and (3) 460nm.


Steve

PS: I do have super secret ties to ORA. Unfortunately decorum prohibts them being mentioned here.

PSS: Gary, I'd always opt to spend some peaceful quality time with you on a saturday night, as my dating life gets way too hectic...
 
Yup! I looked in my records. Traced it back!

I purchased a frag of "red table acropora" from Henry Colf on 2/24/2007...

That's it!

Steve
 
Well I finally got a picture of my Red Table frag. It is finally starting to take off and grow some branches off of the huge base it created.

20081116_red_table_acro.jpg
 
Re: Red Planet

Re: Red Planet

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13761643#post13761643 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Henry Colf
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This photo is great!

Gary Greguire where did you get it from???
 
Just as I expected... Steve's is showing good green. So is Henry's. These corals can be traced back to Gary Greguire who can trace them back to Todd W. (who originally got the coral from me and fragged it in Vermont. Please corroborate , Gary G.)
Awesome.
 
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The red table I distributed came from the milton mini reef who got it from Brad( also now a doctor ) who had gotten it from Todd, from which through conversations with Todd and Gary M. said that it originated from Gary M.
 
searching it's origin

searching it's origin

my brother-in-law purchased this coral for me from Marine Oasis back around 1995. It was shipped in as a small brown wild caught colony. I don't know where it was collected.
I've been calling this coral Acropora glauca because (when grown in high flow) it looks identical to the picture of that species as published in Veron's original single volume book 'Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific'. (I don't have Veron's newer 3 volume set 'Corals of the World'.)
As you can see from these many pictures it's growth habit varies greatly with water flow. (This is true of all Acropora IME).

it would be kewl if we could trace this coral to ORA :smokin:
 
It is interesting to think about BUT....

We all know how acros grow and how the guys harvesting likely didn't just crab one piece. There were probably dozens if not hundreds of pieces harvested in 1995. It is also possible that as a relatively hardy fast growing coral ( I assume it is the same in the wild), they have been harvesting many pieces a year over the last decade. Since ORA claims they have had it about 2 years that leaves a bit over a decade for those original pieces to grow in captivity and get passed around just like Gary's has, and any pieces harvested between 1996 and 2006 to be passed around as well. There could be hundreds if not thousands of reefers who could have supplied a piece to ORA, and their colony could trace back to hundreds if not thousands of imported colonies.

Then again, who cares about ORA's version when we have it in our local community? I applaud what farmers like ORA are doing, and I realize they need to sell at high prices to pay for their operations, but I really like what people in this community do even better. A reefer in WNY can now get their hands on a huge selection of tank propagated corals, at reasonable if not darn cheap prices, and you get good conversation, collective knowledge, ideas, and advice for free. How can you beat that?
 
Crab one piece? Does that mean I need to buy a porcelain crab for my tank or am I just hungry for some crab cakes?
 
I don't know what species they think it is but I did stop by arc yesterday and looked closely at two frags. It is very close,arguably identical, to the red tabler we are discussing. It seems just a tinge more red but that could just be the way these frags coroed up.
 
I had posted this coral on the sps id forum sometime last year none of the regulars on their could guess or knew what it was. I noticed that mine used to look like Nates then it just started branching out. It grows real fast in my tank and have fragged it a dozen times. I could name at least eight local reefers who have gotten it from me as well as a local lfs who got a bunch of frags of it from me as well. So hopefully it will continue to thrive in our community (URS) and keep living for years to come. See what you started Gary. It's all your fault:beer:
 
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