What is the best looking over the top SPS coral??

[MammothReefer]

Mammoth the tort you are were talking about from Atlantis is a rainbow tort. I got 1 Ibelieve the first piece Meng ever cut from the big tank by the door. It was hiding in the back and was almost black when I got it. He hadnt changed the halides(8) on that tank in quite some time. Once in my tank it morphed into that exact form. Nice find.

That sounds like it. If looking at the tank it was located in the back left corner. I only saw it when I walked around the side between the tank and window. You couldn't see it from the front.

 

[Grant W]

Yep thats the one. Did it have that color when you got it?

 

[MammothReefer]

Yep thats the one. Did it have that color when you got it?

Ya it was purple and greenish. I believe I got in Early December, or late Nov.

 

[tommy tomato]

i like fuzzy watermelon

 

[edandsandy]

Too many to choose from.....basically any SPS with contrasting colors looks better from above IMO.

Somthing like this

or this

or this

I love the second picture! What is it?

 

[scrapz]

I'm not sure. I bought it from Atlantis when I visited the bay area over the summer. The owner wasn't around the girls working weren't sure which piece it was on the website. It had a really unusually growth. The main body was thicker then any acro I had seen it was like a sold stock 3"-4" thick, but looking back now I wonder if the growth was due to how they keep trim/frag things at Atlantis. It's don't believe it an echinata. If I had to guess it's one of there torts. I just don't know which one.

the structure doesn't look like any tort I've seen.. structure and color looks identical to my icefire..

 

[purplereef]

I got fat just looking at the picture of Poutine!

 

[MammothReefer]

the structure doesn't look like any tort I've seen.. structure and color looks identical to my icefire..

Hey Scrapz! I know it looks like an echinata now, but I saw the main piece it came off it it was very thick and not a thin branching spieces like echinata. For some reason a lot of my smaller frags tend to grow out like that.

I believe this was an austera when I got it, however since I lost the rest of the colony and only this little frag remains now that it's regrowing the corallites have become very elongated

However I could be wrong a lot of Mings corals had very odd growth shapes due to the amount of pruning he does.

 

[wyattroa]

Hey Scrapz! I know it looks like an echinata now, but I saw the main piece it came off it it was very thick and not a thin branching spieces like echinata. For some reason a lot of my smaller frags tend to grow out like that.

I believe this was an austera when I got it, however since I lost the rest of the colony and only this little frag remains now that it's regrowing the corallites have become very elongated

However I could be wrong a lot of Mings corals had very odd growth shapes due to the amount of pruning he does.

Either way it is nice looking..

 

[Soy]

Red dragon best looking coral? Wow you need to get out of the designer coral names. The red dragon is decent at best, it's an over hyped, over priced coral that people slapped a name on. There are a ton of sps out there in a few years red dragon won't be cool at all watch.

designer names doesnt have to be a factor in what looks best to him. I personally think dragon or not, that its a very pretty looking acro that makes it pretty high on my favorites list. btw, name isnt the only reason corals can be priced high. the fact that it wasnt a maricultured piece also contributed to the high price as well.