Strawberry shortcake placement
- Thread starter Finland
- Start date
Bluecorals
New member
I dont where you should place it because I dont have one but, could you post a picture of it to see what it looks like?
purplereef
Active member
Belive it or not low light and a ton of flow will bring out the very pink tips in this coral.
divewsharks
Active member
I have mine under high light and a ton of flow, this current piece seems to be an anomaly; as the previous pieces (attempts) that I have had all preferred lower light. It was a slow acclimation to the light it is under now.
therealshark
New member
i am curious about this also. i have a small frag in medium flow and high light and the pink is very nice but no green at all yet.
Finland
Member
Thanks for the replies. I put it at the bottom for now, in a high flow area. It is a little browned out, but still has some of the green and some of the tips are a nice pink. PE is ok. This is one of my favorite corals, so I hope it colors up good. Have to get my point and shoot camera back.
TucanSam007
New member
I just recently got a browned out SSC frag for cheap from a local guy. It's under medium light and tons of flow and seems to be recovering nicely. Hopefully I can bring out the pink tips with this placement.
PokerReefer
New member
I recieved my frag as a broken piece from the wild colony that came in. It was a little faded from shipping stress when I acquired it. Within a week it browned out and had little polyp extension on the bottom of my tank. After about a month I moved it up to my frag rack and it started to get some green back. I have preserved a spot for it in high flow with medium to high lighting. Soon to be mounted.
Breakbeats2334
New member
Do colonies of Strawberry shortcakes grow in a branchlike form or more like a table?
daveonbass
New member
I would say start with low light and work up. I had mine on the sand bed under 6 T5's in an ATI fixture and it bleached out dead...I couldn't get it any lower... 
next time I am only going to buy a piece from a person that has it under HIGH light already...haha.
next time I am only going to buy a piece from a person that has it under HIGH light already...haha.
mwilliams62
New member
I got a small frag and it was all pink and I thought it was about to sprout out some tiny branches but it bleached out. I had it in high flow area with medium light I am so sad I was really hoping for it to grow out....
Finland
Member
Wow, this was from awhile back,lol. Here is an update of the same coral in the previuos post. I struggled with this one and couldn't get it to color up. I ended moving it too the top and in a higher flow area. It took off then. It's a little darker green than my DFS strawberry shortcake, but it is my favorite
makers marc
New member
Mine is more light yellow with pink tips. For the past 6 months, it has been 14 inches under an AP700 maxed out at 80% for a few hrs. Oddly enough, it has grown substantially only in encrusting form.
It encrusted the plug completely, then proceeded to encrust another 2 sq inches on the rock below it. The color is as vibrant as it has been, just no vertical growth out of the 3 branches.
Im assuming this means my light is too strong?
It encrusted the plug completely, then proceeded to encrust another 2 sq inches on the rock below it. The color is as vibrant as it has been, just no vertical growth out of the 3 branches.
Im assuming this means my light is too strong?
Similar threads
