Who keeps beautiful Aussie A. spathulata?

[takayan]

LA sold this beautiful SPS. I am just wondering who keeps this kind of beautiful A. spathulata? Mine became really dark color.

 

[dvanacker]

Im curious too....all the ones I've seen are either brown at the LFS or come in OK but I find them not so colourful later on when I visit the LFS again....I dont personally know anyone with a nice spathulata.

 

[M007]

I might question the long term viability of those colours.

 

[takayan]

Any experience someone?

 

[Nate R]

never seen it personally. wish i had.

 

[takayan]

Hmm no one has any thoughts?

 

[Ian]

I've seen plenty come in absolutely beautiful but not one has held its color and most RTN...

 

[gig]

I have a frag from my LFS, the pic doesn't do it justice, it's red and green

 

[basser1]

I have a frag from my LFS, the pic doesn't do it justice, it's red and green

I can see the green.

That looks like it has some real potential.

 

[gig]

yeah, the one LFS I visit has a 400G SPS display, with lots of higher end colonies, Red Planet, Strawberry Shortcake, Joe the coral, this spathulata, etc...they will frag on request, so I tried this one, it's been in my tank for a couple months now, just waiting for it to encrust and hopefully start taking off.

 

[takayan]

Mine became really dark color from bright pastel color.

 

[fishez4alivin]

I watched mine for 5 months, then had a tank maintenance guy service my tank for a month, came back to a RTN'd Spat..lol
came in brown

started coloring up, but always looked super hot under LED, you can see it getting some color here

under reefbrites only

had it only 5-6 months, not sure when it actually died, came home from vacation to just a white skeleton

 

[takayan]

2nd picture is really awesome. So far, I can keep these Acro without any bleaching issue, but only 3 months...

 

[curlykid]

wow all of these look really great! i'll have to look into this coral.