Original Ice Fire Acropra enchinata

[29reef]

This coral made it onto the captive frag market about 5 years ago; does anyone have a photo of their grown out colony? Please share photos and experiences with this sometimes tricky Acropora.

 

[29reef]

Here's a photo of the coral in question. This is mine after about 9 months under a 250 watt DE halide.

 

[mr. pluto]

here is mine, around 4 yrs old:

lots of flow resulted in a thicker bush.

 

[fatboy40]

nice piece tagging along just picked up a lil frag myself .........

 

[Piper27]

Mr. Pluto, i love that growth!!! I keep high flow to get my corals to do that because i love the look of a healthy thick clustered acro. Skinny long branches dont look good to me at all

 

[Stevenliu9]

looks nice! Pluto, how big was it 4 years ago? I am curious of the expected growth rate. And what's your light?

 

[mr. pluto]

Thanks guys
2010 pic Under Halides

2011

under Halides

2012 under LEDS

 

[ZON]

mine

 

[westreef]

This is mine. It grows relatively fast in my dirty tank. I find that it has whiter body with brighter light.

 

[reefta]

Nice,nothing beats the original.

 

[sahin]

Bernie your Aquascene Icefire Echinata looks awesome.

 

[reeflover62]

Don't know if it is the original Ice Fire but I got mine in 2006 and over the last year is taking off. We split a mini colony 3 ways and I was the only one to keep it alive.

 

[westreef]

Bernie your Aquascene Icefire Echinata looks awesome.

Thanks Sahin. I was surprise myself that it grew so fast and the part of it that saw more light had better color.