ORA Sps Frags

[mischief nite]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14653700#post14653700 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Stanley-Reefer
daylight as it gets now with 2 150w DE Phoenix 14ks and 2 96w coralife actinic pcs....you can see it's trying to green up on the new growth too.

Wow, that is the largest/tabling "red planet" I've seen so far also.....and still has green!! Nice work

 

[mischief nite]

What the.....double post

 

[muzz]

I have had 400w 12k reeflux bulbs over my tank for a little over a year, but just switched to T5s. Those pics were taken under the reeflux halides, and my frag tank still has the halides over it.

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

The Phoenix has only been in for about 2 weeks. I had Hamilton tech 10ks in there for the last 7 mos. A good reefing friend suggested these and the LFS also changed to them in their SPS system and I liked the way the blue mad all the colors really pop--not true color, but better IMO.

I have another red planet under 250w hikari 14k in my 175 and it's tabling too, but it has spent its growth going down the plug onto the rock so far. It's deep red with a hint of green.

FWIW, I have 3 250w DE phoenix for in the garage now going in there next month.

 

[t4zalews]

I picked up a red planet and a pearlberry..truely amazing corals...but only one problem, those retarded plugs that ORA chose to mount all their frags on. Jeez Side note, when all of our red planets start tabling its going to be crazy to see all of them in pictures. Of course by then the price of them will probably drop tremendously. Either way, gotta support aquaculture

 

[reefsafe]

Enjoyed reading through this thread. Great pictures.

 

[MammothReefer]

Great pics everybody.. Chips still has to be my #1. I'll see if I can't dig threw some photos and post some this weekend.

 

[MammothReefer]

I picked up a red planet and a pearlberry..truely amazing corals...but only one problem, those retarded plugs that ORA chose to mount all their frags on. Jeez Side note, when all of our red planets start tabling its going to be crazy to see all of them in pictures. Of course by then the price of them will probably drop tremendously. Either way, gotta support aquaculture

already has you can find red planet in the frag section on RC for under 15-30 now and then.

 

[SPSEMPIRE]

let me see if I can find my old blue iris shot

Here you go. Blue Iris

Purple Plasma

Borealis

 

[SPSEMPIRE]

Pearlberry

Red Planet

Lavender

Hawkins

Birds of Paradise

 

[Pallobi]

bump for perhaps some new shots great thread... i love ORA too

 

[israel.kendall]

This is a great thread, here is a pic of my Bird of Paradise. 2x Blue +, one actinic

 

[MrKite24]

Here's my pink birdsnest

And a hawkins, the color in real life looks much better than the pic

 

[Finsky]

I just purchased an "ORA" Green Birdsnest Coral frag from That Fish Place out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It arrived covered with green polyps yesterday and it was happy all day today showing its bright green polyps proudly. I paid $30 on sale for a two inches frag with multiple branches in a solid black plug. It sits approximately 10" under the surface of the water under the left 150 watt 14K metal halide. I have to agree so far that this coral is described by ORA as:

"The ORA Green Birdsnest is a thin branched Seriatopora that produces stunning green polyps on a yellow green background. Arguably the most eye-catching birdsnest of all time this coral glows especially bright under higher Kelvin bulbs"

While I was on the ORA Web site I looked at the Orange Montipora Capricornis which looks exactly like the 16" Orange Montiopora Capricornis I have two thirds from the bottom in the center of the tank.

I them looked at the "ORA" Purple Montiopora Capricornis I purchased from Drs. Foster and Smith last August which was a light cholate color. I started it out low and gradually moved it up to two thirds. I never for one instant showed any sign of "purple". Drs. Foster and Smith uses halides and I have mine under halides. ORA asked whether it had been started out low and what light was used. It seems like a big run around for a coral which is the color of chocolate milk and never had any other whether under halides, actinics, or both.

It seems I have been getting a run around from my two responses from ORA and when I received it back in August 2010 from Drs. Foster and Smith they told me the light was probably different and was the reason the "ORA" Purple Montiopora Capricornis looked like cholate milk and to give it time. They also tried to blame it on the light.

My orange is a bright orange just like the ORA Web site and the purple it a chocolate milk.

I am left to wonder why I had to settle for light brown instead of the "ORA" purple montipora capricornis it was listed as on the receipt?

 

[Eel Freak]

Good-looking Pearlberry I picked up yesterday:

 

[jpkrze]

Doesn't look like any Pealberry I've ever seen. Almost more like tri color valida

 

[sjfishguy]

That's no pearlberry, sorry

 

[Reef Bass]

ORA yes, Pearlberry no.

Doesn't look like my ORA Tri-color either. Maybe a somewhat browned Purple Plasma?

 

[Eel Freak]

Hmmm. Well. Not too sure then. It was sold to me as a Pearlberry but I wasn't 100% sure. It's very green throughout with the tips being lavenderish in color.... It is now under 250w Elos 20Ks so maybe it'll color up....

 

[Finsky]

ORA Green Birdsnest

ORA Green Birdsnest

I have this two to three inch fellow shining brightly five to six inches beneath the surface of the water under a 14K 150 watt Ushio halide bulb about four inches above the water's surface. Unforunately, the photo does not do the coral justice as the branches are a nice yellow with the neon green polyps as I look at it four feet away while I am typing this.