True Tri Color Acro

[reefried]

....so Gasman are you saying that there are no 3 color millis or prostratas out there???????????

 

[israel.kendall]

I just stumbled upon this this thread somehow on google. How's the colony doing now, any updates, pics?

 

[Flems]

^^^ Also curious

 

[Brian Chong]

I just acquired a coral that looks very very similar to this. the picture is in my album new corals towards the end. looks more like a mille than a prostrata but i'm bad at id's. I saw an actual prostrata colony before and the branches are very long.
mine as of this moment has baby blue tips dark blue on the corallite ridges at the top and dark red. it's very very hairy and the polyps on the very tips extend even more at night.

 

[Brian Chong]

double post

 

[Brian Chong]

here is mine before and now. the darker one is the most recent. cant seem to get a good picture of it in its new position for the life of me but i just ordered an image stabilizer lens so i'll get a better pic later. this is just to give you an idea.

 

[adtravels]

a good few have also landed in the uk too.

 

[RockinSmall]

mine looks like a big brown/green turd now. Strange.. it was the most expensive.. yet the ugliest coral in my tank... Argh!

 

[allsps40]

^ I hate it when that happens. Keep your water super stable and it should color back up. Oh and feeding I find helps also to color up sps.

 

[RockinSmall]

My biggest issue is that i just moved my reef tank to new locations twice in the last 3 months... Sooo, im sure they r not real happy about much =)

 

[Brian Chong]

My biggest issue is that i just moved my reef tank to new locations twice in the last 3 months... Sooo, im sure they r not real happy about much =)

just give it some time. My most expensive, relative to its size, acro is the rainbow delight and it gradually lost its color since i bought it to a tan brown color. now its coloring back up after 4 months. I just told myself i'd rather have a brown rainbow delight than add a bunch of additional stuff to the tank for one acro.

 

[Jmason95]

just give it some time. My most expensive, relative to its size, acro is the rainbow delight and it gradually lost its color since i bought it to a tan brown color. now its coloring back up after 4 months. I just told myself i'd rather have a brown rainbow delight than add a bunch of additional stuff to the tank for one acro.

Rainbow delight from Vivid? Mine's done the exact same thing....but mine's not colored up much yet.

Sorry, not trying to derail the thread

 

[ryshark]

just give it some time. My most expensive, relative to its size, acro is the rainbow delight and it gradually lost its color since i bought it to a tan brown color. now its coloring back up after 4 months. I just told myself i'd rather have a brown rainbow delight than add a bunch of additional stuff to the tank for one acro.

Do you have any pictures of that one coloring back up? My vivids rainbow delight did the same thing but stayed tan/brown.

 

[Brian Chong]

it's still tan color getting a slightly greenish with darker polyps so i never cared to take a picture of it. But there's definite improvement to it. I have a t2i with an l series 100mm macro on its way as we speak so maybe then if you shoot me an email i'll send it to you. Dave told me to blast it with as much light as possible and itll brown out but color back up. Once i saw it fading i lowered it slowly and kept it there. personally i think its bad advice since i was using 150's.

 

[buy_baff]

Mine is tan green with blue tips. Nothing like what it was but I suspect that I need to put it some place higher up with more light. The only real estate I had was not to prime. I still have high hopes for it to color up like it was when I upgrade my tank and give it some prime real estate. It has grown alot though.

 

[Brian Chong]

This thread has been derailed

 

[Brian Chong]

just saw this on ladd. looks like a very nice version of mine, but i'm not positively sure mine is the same coral that was posted by buy baff.

 

[Brian Chong]

Mine is tan green with blue tips. Nothing like what it was but I suspect that I need to put it some place higher up with more light. The only real estate I had was not to prime. I still have high hopes for it to color up like it was when I upgrade my tank and give it some prime real estate. It has grown alot though.

I would leave it. stability imo includes location as well and knowing how stubborn this coral can be i would slowly move it to that prime spot

 

[ryshark]

it's still tan color getting a slightly greenish with darker polyps so i never cared to take a picture of it. But there's definite improvement to it. I have a t2i with an l series 100mm macro on its way as we speak so maybe then if you shoot me an email i'll send it to you. Dave told me to blast it with as much light as possible and itll brown out but color back up. Once i saw it fading i lowered it slowly and kept it there. personally i think its bad advice since i was using 150's.

Mine also faded after a slow acclimation and then blasting it with high light. What do you think was bad advice? Blasting it with high light or lowering it slowly?

 

[Brian Chong]

Ryshark, how long have you had yours?
Dave said he was running 400w with 1000w mh. Even if you were running the same lights, it would be better to still acclimate them since every system can be different. the description for this coral says easy in sps tank which i guess means easy to keep alive but brown. If the majority of your corals are doing well then i wouldnt worry about it.
btw, i scraped the glass this morning and it has a purplish hue to it now with the encrusting part showing the most non-tan brown color