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?
