ORA -vs FHI coral problems?

twelvejewelz

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Has anyone else had a problem with corals from FHI? All of the ORA corals i have ( ORA: Red planet, Borealis, joe the coral, hawkins echinata, hyacinth birdsnest, Wooly Green Acro) all doing wonderfully. I recently picked up 2 FHI corals from 2 different stores (FHI: Pink millepora, Frog N' Blenda montipora) and they are doing horribly. The both of the FHI corals have retracted polyps. I have other millepora and montis that are not ORA or FHI that are doing great as well. All of my parameters are dead on and i have been dosing vodka for about a month and a half so far. I just dont know what is going on and cant put my finger on it. Are the FHI just less hardy than most other corals i dont understand what it is.Please share your experience and pictures if you may.
Thanks in Advance.
 
I have several FHI pieces generally do pretty well. They have some really nice aquacultered stuff. Are those the newest corals in your system? If they are you might wanna just double and triple check your parameters.
 
FHI has been 50/50; errr 75/25 for me. All my ORA SPS are thriving, no problem! I've had an Atlantis Fire Undata that just croaked, however the Stylo and Birdsnest I acquired from them kicks @ss!

GL
 
I have had the same problem. I have bought a few FHI frags and get them in my tank and little to no polyps will open up and within a week or two they are dead. I've even tried fragging off some and the frags die as well. I have never lost an ORA coral now, and I have gotten several from ORA dealers and frags of ORA corals from fellow hobbyists and no problems. Needless to say, no more FHI corals for me.
 
Look at the difference:
New Ora Frag( red planet, pic dosnt do it justice its amazing color and polyps are long and flowing, really healty)


New FHI Pink Millepora (ahemmm brown) a month old and its almost dead granted i didnt get it it perfect condition and it was already brown but there is no reason that it shouldnt have started to color up or atleast start to do better than the store color it actually got worse where as my ORA corals always start to color up alot better:





The Frog N' Blenda still hasnt open its polyps. I dont understand whats going on does anyone else have any more experience with these corals good or bad? Thanks everyone.
 
I have the same problem with pink milli. Got it about three months ago and looked ok. After a week was brown. Three weeks was white with microscopic polyps. Started to stn so I fragged a few nubs off. Its now been sitting on the sandbed for about six weeks and is starting to show improvement. Its getting some green at growth ring and polyps are noticeable but no where near extending. I have some lps from FHI and its been great but the sps has been a poor experience. Not sure of the conditions of their farm as far as parameters and lighting but it seems they are very easily stressed and don't ship very well. I am hoping it eventually comes back to good health.
 
honestly frags are tough.........as some species wont color up at ALL until they start to encrust, others will imediately color up it depends on the coral, and ORA corals are all several generation old aquacultured corals and are mostly considered very hardy sps, so compairing them to other online vendors frags doesnt hold up. unless we are talking about a famous coral ie: the reefready grapejuice, or the upscales micro, or the tubbs digi or others like them that are a few generations old and are hardy in their own right.
 
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Most FHI Frags are just cut up wild or maricultured acros and montis, they are not truly aqua cultured corals.ORA Corals are true aqua cultured corals and that is why they do better.
 
I've never had any problems with them. I worked at a lfs and ordered them all the time. I put about 20 in my tank and all thrived. The ones at the store thrived also. If you're losing acros I would check your parameters, flow, lighting... I'm guessing there is something else going on besides where the frags are coming from. But I will say that Ora are about the hardiest sps I've seen.
 
Its definitely not flow thats for sure. And all of my parameters are dead on perfect. Made i just got 2 bad corals that were destined to die but all of my other corals are doing amazing its just the FHI that arnt. I have about 15- 20 different kinds of sps acros, montis, digis and birdsnests and there fine. Its just the FHI corals that wont do well. I just find it odd that they were from 2 different stores and they both arnt doing well. As you can see my red planet is doing awsome but the FHI mille isnt..
 
It's funny to see a post like this as I was wondering why I couldn't keep the FHI frags alive. I have various acro frags from different sources but every FHI frag that I have bought (3) have died in my tank. I don't have problems with the other frags.

CJ 1098 said:
Most FHI Frags are just cut up wild or maricultured acros and montis, they are not truly aqua cultured corals.ORA Corals are true aqua cultured corals and that is why they do better.
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If this is true, it explains a lot.

Christopher :)
 
I've had the same problem with FHI corals - they do great in my tanks until they get to be a small colony, then just RTN...with no other corals ever affected (I have colonies of Tyree, ORA, Tubs, Paletta's, etc). I'll frag small pieces to try to keep something alive...they'll grow fine, then RTN again. Ugh! I've completely quit buying corals from FHI. A LFS said he had the same problems with them & with customers reporting the same.
 
CJ 1098 said:
Most FHI Frags are just cut up wild or maricultured acros and montis, they are not truly aqua cultured corals.ORA Corals are true aqua cultured corals and that is why they do better.
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Well lets see- where do corals from ORA came from????? originally and still from maricultured or wild sps/
This statement is so naive IMO.

Yes perhaps ORA corals have a longer track record as tank raised and so forth but ultimately where do you think every "new" ORA frag comes from???

Yep you guessed it maricultured or wild-- unless ORA found a place in space that grows them.

Fishheads SPS are no different than any other "aquacultured" sps they came from the ocean and will be developed in time as aqaucultured.

:beer:
 
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