Show off your Strawberry shortcake

[fishmanstan]

 

[Peter Eichler]

latest picture.

Huh, this looks like A. nasuta to me rather than A. microclados. In fact, it seems like there are a few different species being labeled as SSC.

 

[MedRed]

Huh, this looks like A. nasuta to me rather than A. microclados. In fact, it seems like there are a few different species being labeled as SSC.

It doesn't look anything like nasuta based on the pictures I could find.

 

[biggles]

Small branch freshly collected from a wild colony - it's the one at the front in case anyone is unsure lol.

 

[MarinaP]

grown from 1" frag

 

[MammothReefer]

That looks like a pink lemonaide to me.

 

[Piper27]

Sure. The pink lemonade looks mainly yellow with pink polyps. The SSC should be mint green base\branches with pink/red tips/corrallites. Both are stunning corals. I was just saying a few of the claimed SSC corals posted in this thread look kind of yellow with pink polyps like a pink lemonade. Of course, it could just be the angle and lighting during the picture taking. It is very hard to get corals to show in photographs what they really look like at home and to our naked eye.

I would love it if people would also chip in on the difference. Like species type? Who had the "first" SSC? Why are some of them all pink? It seems like so many people have one but everyone is different. I just call mine a tabling shortcake. I know where it came from and I don't know to many others that table like mine. And then some people who know what they are talking about tell me mine looks like a true strawberry shortcake? I dunno... All I know is I love it and most corals that look like it. But I would like to know more about the whole SSC story.

 

[epicurus84]

When i got it it was quite low on color.

But in a few weeks it turned more green.

Ow growth wise for some reason nothing going to the top, however encrusting about 1 millimeter every 3 days. So thats going pretty fast.

 

[flamron]

That looks like a pink lemonaide to me.

It does. The only difference is the green. My pink lemonade never had green like that. It was always yellow.

Probably the same family I'd imagine.

 

[Patrick Cox]

grown from 1" frag

Is this really SSC? Mine doesn't have any of that green color. More yellow/cream with pink.

 

[trueblackpercula]

Is anyone keeping SSC under LEDs ? Mine is pink but still no green

 

[MarinaP]

Is this really SSC?

Picture of mother colony in this thread

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2096849&page=3

My colony is exposed to a lot of flow and sits under 400W Radium, maybe that's why it looks different

 

[karsseboom]

Idk that really looks like a pink lemonade. Are you sure you didn't get a frag of the colonie behind the SS?

 

[epicurus84]

Is anyone keeping SSC under LEDs ? Mine is pink but still no green

I got mine under Pacitic sun Tritron LED The top of the coral is about half way into my tank.

 

[MarinaP]

Idk that really looks like a pink lemonade. Are you sure you didn't get a frag of the colonie behind the SS?

I did

here is my pink lemonade

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[fishmanstan]

Is anyone keeping SSC under LEDs ? Mine is pink but still no green

mine is unnder 2 radions, and it is green with pink corallites.

 

[trueblackpercula]

mine is unnder 2 radions, and it is green with pink corallites.

Thanks I was going to give up hope but now I have hope again after that statement. She's growing very fast but still no green. It was green with pink but the green left.

 

[fishmanstan]

Mine was kind of blank pink and green, and within the month or so of being in my tank its colors have become much prettier.

 

[Peter Eichler]

It doesn't look anything like nasuta based on the pictures I could find.

Actually, you're right about that. It looks a lot like what I've seen others label as raspberry nasuta, which doesn't seem to look like A. nasuta either.:bounce3: Regardless of what it is, it's a stunning piece.

 

[tektite]

My little one, lol. Doesn't grow much with my high phosphates, but has great color