Vivid Rainbow Delight Growth/Color Progress
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t4zalews
65g Ritteri Tank
11/8/11
Located high up on the tank ~650-700 PAR. It is encrusting nicely onto the rock and the tips are a bright purple. If you look closely, you can see a lime green growing in the base in the back..I expect in time, the orangish color will turn to the lime green like in the picture at Vivid. I'm happy with my showpiece so far
Located high up on the tank ~650-700 PAR. It is encrusting nicely onto the rock and the tips are a bright purple. If you look closely, you can see a lime green growing in the base in the back..I expect in time, the orangish color will turn to the lime green like in the picture at Vivid. I'm happy with my showpiece so far
I don't know alot about SPS corals yet, lol that being said, I would think the first pic after you bought the coral is what the coral should be looking like and it seems by the latest pic that the corals is losing color. Are you worried that the coral isn't doing good, or is this normal?
chrishayes
New member
You better nip that aiptasia in the bud now man! lol
myzislow
Active member
pretty common actually
t4zalews
65g Ritteri Tank
Yessir
t4zalews
65g Ritteri Tank
Sorry for the long gap between updates...couple things have tied up the life outside of reefing and the tank was on strickly maintenance mode for a while. After moving everything into a new tank (same size tank, just drilled with internal overflow) I allowed the showpiece to establish again into a position. It definitely has paled out in color but is now coming back to its original glory. So from this point on I'll try to incorporate bi-weekly photos for comparison.
8/16/12
8/16/12
Arkayology
Active member
Looks like it is showing nice growth. How does the color in the pic match with the true color? Are you happy with it?
Breakbeats2334
New member
nice growth what are you using to glue that coral it looks pink
t4zalews
65g Ritteri Tank
I couldn't really capture the color in the tips but they are growing in purple/green/blue color. Like I said its only been a few weeks since I moved everything into the new tank so it has really settled in nicely. Polyp extension grows by the day. Looking on it from the top down, I'm really excited to see where it goes from here. I'll get some PAR numbers later if that helps people.
t4zalews
65g Ritteri Tank
D&D two part epoxy..best epoxy I have ever used and will always use it. It comes in grey and purple, I get the purple and it really blends in nicely.
t4zalews
65g Ritteri Tank
9/7/12
Blues, purples and greens are more prominent now..couldn't capture all the colors with my camera..for some reason I keep getting a glare off the coral. Note: I had some sps on the top of my tank that were really getting hit with serious light so I have switched to 175W 12k reeflux bulbs from my 250W Radiums. PAR dropped about half in some areas. I have pretty clean water so I'm hoping that some of the corals will deepen in color with the lower PAR and when they do I'll switch back to the Radiums. I have noticed better polyp extension under the lower PAR.
Blues, purples and greens are more prominent now..couldn't capture all the colors with my camera..for some reason I keep getting a glare off the coral. Note: I had some sps on the top of my tank that were really getting hit with serious light so I have switched to 175W 12k reeflux bulbs from my 250W Radiums. PAR dropped about half in some areas. I have pretty clean water so I'm hoping that some of the corals will deepen in color with the lower PAR and when they do I'll switch back to the Radiums. I have noticed better polyp extension under the lower PAR.
