new red planet and Blue Acro

05xrunner

05xrunner

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So went to a local reefers house to get a frag of Red planet.
it isnt the best looking cause I hear they loose alot of color under bright light..he had them under 10bulb ATI powermodual.
I put it in a lower light part in my tank to hope it gets its green back.
Red Planet $15

Unknown Blue Acro $10
 
pbnj

pbnj

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Man, that Red Planet is struggling. Good luck. Red Planets prefer high light level combined with strong intermittent water current.
 
05xrunner

05xrunner

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Originally Posted by pbnj
http:///forum/post/2980214
Man, that Red Planet is struggling. Good luck. Red Planets prefer high light level combined with strong intermittent water current.
where are you getting that info..So far every thing I have read from people owning them..they keep them deep in the tank under lower light and they get the nice green back and deeper red. I have yet to hear anywhere they need high light. so far anyone who has ever kept them under HIGH light look exactly how mine does..Its not struggling at all..it has great polyp extension its just being under to strong of light made it loose alot of its color.
 
pbnj

pbnj

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The info's from a competitor's site.
Sorry to say, but if you think that's good polyp extension, you haven't seen a good specimen.
I have a nice size frag sitting directly under a 250W 14K MH bulb about 8" from the water surface and the color & polyp extension is even better than when I brought it home over a month ago.
 
05xrunner

05xrunner

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that was 10min after it was in the tank...I have seen plenty of frags of it. I know how they look and what is healthy and not. I am sure you know more though since you read some info on a site selling them..
 
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cmaxwell39

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For that price it is worth it. I hope they color back up for you. The red planet is a beautiful coral and one that I hope to have one day as well. Good luck and nice pickups.
 
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tizzo

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Actually....
Here's the deal with lighting on the red planet...
High light, gives the red it's intensity, and the green fades out to brown...
low light, fades the red to brown but the green is greener.
My own personal planet, has polyp extention similiar to a millie, and is intense red with no green. It is under very high light.
I contacted ORA via email and got that above information from them.
Their corals are aquacultured under natural sunlight, so simulating their atmosphere is not really an option for most of us.
HTH.
 
pbnj

pbnj

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Originally Posted by Tizzo
http:///forum/post/2982264
Actually....
Here's the deal with lighting on the red planet...
High light, gives the red it's intensity, and the green fades out to brown...
low light, fades the red to brown but the green is greener.
My own personal planet, has polyp extention similiar to a millie, and is intense red with no green. It is under very high light.
I contacted ORA via email and got that above information from them.
Their corals are aquacultured under natural sunlight, so simulating their atmosphere is not really an option for most of us.
HTH.
Thanks for sharing the ORA specs.
Under my 250W MH lighting, I also have great "millie" type polyp extension with very intense red coloring. I still have the green too after more than a month, but I'll continue to monitor to see if the above holds true.
 
jpa0741

jpa0741

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Originally Posted by 05xrunner
http:///forum/post/2980490
that was 10min after it was in the tank...I have seen plenty of frags of it. I know how they look and what is healthy and not. I am sure you know more though since you read some info on a site selling them..
Sorry, that is not a healthy frag. Not to say it can't make 100% recovery with some TLC. For the price it wasn't a bad idea to try, but it should never look like that under any light.
I am blasting my with Radiums and it loves the light. As others stated it does lose a lot of its green with high light, but the red is very dark and vibrant.
Good luck and let us know how it is doing.
 
05xrunner

05xrunner

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its doing fine with very long polyp extensions...Its perfectly fine and its not in any bad shape at all..But then again we have so many experts on this board who know how it looks in my tank.
 
spanko

spanko

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Don't have one, Don't know anything about them with the exception of the pictures I see on sale sites. It would seem to me that they would put pictures up with the polyp extension being discussed here but I don't see it. I also found it interesting that it is a tabling acro and would love to see a mature colony. Here is a group of pictures from other sites that sell them.





Here is the best picture I found that resembles the polyp extension being discussed. It is the press release picture from ORA.

Compared to most of the sale pictures above 05xrunner's doesn't look to be in that bad of shape and I hope he can bring it along.
JMO
 
05xrunner

05xrunner

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Originally Posted by spanko
http:///forum/post/2982512

Compared to most of the sale pictures above 05xrunner's doesn't look to be in that bad of shape and I hope he can bring it along.
JMO
the pic I took was about 10min after in tank..Now that its in there the polyp extension is pretty much just like this frag in this picture.
I am not worried about it one bit...I will bet within a month it will be looking better with the green since I have it in lower lighting
 
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tizzo

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Originally Posted by 05xrunner
http:///forum/post/2982507
its doing fine with very long polyp extensions...Its perfectly fine and its not in any bad shape at all..But then again we have so many experts on this board who know how it looks in my tank.
We know how it looks in your picture. And I hope your sarcasm wasn't directed at my post because that was meant to defend you.
The coloring will be different per tank, per lighting, per location...
Mine is almost scary white on the underside... If whoever gave you your frag got it from a lower part of the coral then that color is to be expected.
Most corals, given low light, are a brown to pale brown and they are perfectly healthy, they just aren't pretty.
Your frag is and will be fine. The polyps have color, and the tips have color... It will be fine as long as it has been light acclimated properly.
 
pbnj

pbnj

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Quite frankly, no one here was attacking him. He just took it all that way and responded with his sarcastic remarks.
There's more polite ways to disagree with people, even if you think they're dead wrong. This site would be pretty boring and uninformative if everyone agreed on everything that is said.
His picture, which is all I had to go on, just looked so different from what I've seen anywhere. That's where I was coming from originally.
 
chilwil84

chilwil84

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most tabling acros are from deeper water thus why they have a flat growth form to take advantage of the lower light. you cant compare a 20k radiums color to something coming from a 10-14k 250w bulb. the 10-14k bulbs will create a lot lighter color due to their intensity and color spectrum
 
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