Anyone care to share their anacropora?

tnyr5 · Mar 11, 2020

Just a word of warning to the wise, I have the RR tropicana Anacropora and have seen the RR Goldenrod in person. The former does have very nice jawbreaker-gold color under blue light, but grows EXCEEDINGLY slow, the latter you could not pay me to put in my tank.

Graffiti Spot · Mar 11, 2020

The goldenrod grows really slow?

tnyr5 · Mar 11, 2020

Not sure how fast it grows, but the coral I saw looked absolutely nothing like ReefRaft's pic (surprise surprise).

Graffiti Spot · Mar 11, 2020

Ah man that’s sad. I guess that kinda kills my curiosity.

Snyder1456 · Apr 13, 2020

Here's my red anacropora before I fragged it. It grows pretty fast imo. But not as fast as the green one. I love these corals... very forgiving!

Phildago · Apr 13, 2020

I love the growth pattern of these. I haven't gotten one yet due to lack of space. I think one of the orange pieces will be on my list though!

Softhammer · Jul 9, 2020

Here’s mine. Got the red one maybe 6-8 months ago as a small 1/2” piece, probably 4” now. The green is older and getting huge, easily 6-8” tall. I know they don’t appear to be that big, it’s just that all the surrounding corals are that much bigger.

Graffiti Spot · Jul 9, 2020

Nice! Mine has been bumped around the tank this whole time and is clustering very tightly. I need to find a good spot to try and mount it where the Mexican turbos won’t knock it loose.

Softhammer · Jul 10, 2020

I had to cull my snails, some are just ridiculously huge and do all my fragging for me. Into the sump went anything bigger than a golf ball.

Graffiti Spot · Jul 10, 2020

Yea I would but they are the only ones that keep my rocks clean. Also urchins don’t seem to live long for me for some reason. Also I have those darn pest white cone snails that eat other snails from the soft spots under the shell. So I gotta replenish them a lot. And I see the big flat worms that eat snails sometimes. I am wondering if one of those pests eat urchins because I wanted to try just urchins for the clean up crew but the tuxedos I got didn’t last long. They were added just before my last little Dino breakout that lasted a few weeks so that could have done them in maybe as well? Eh reefing...

AdamBWS · Aug 30, 2020

Here’s my green goblin. Really fast growth!

Graffiti Spot · Aug 30, 2020

Pedoconfuego said:
Updates on the anacropora and the deepwater I got at the same store. The anacropora is defiantly growing denser than most of the Jason fox pics I see. Tnyr5 you think it’s the same type of anacropora and it’s just the higher light making it dense? I wonder what sets the different anacropora apart.
The smooth skinned piece I am really loving with the nice blue in it. Here are some quick camera filter pics, I will post the halide pics when the lights come on.

Here is an update on mine. The darn thing loves to get blown into rock crevices so it’s been through some neglect. It’s clustering really tight which I do like. Pic is under blues with my camera flash. It’s showing some odd bumpiness to the flesh recently too. Hopefully it kicks back into growth mode now that it’s in a decent spot. Honestly I am amazed I have not broken it yet, what a fragile piece.

OnPointCorals · Aug 31, 2020

Here’s my JF TNT.

It’s was orange and once I put in very low light (literally under an overhang) it turned red.

Softhammer · Aug 31, 2020

That looks great, I’m going to have to cut mine in half and move it lower too. Like that coloration better.

Graffiti Spot · Aug 31, 2020

The change in color is dramatic for sure. Mines just a nice orange in daylight under good light. Some of them even look almost pink in lower light.
Thanks to everyone who has shared in this thread. I am still waiting for the Tropicana and goldenrod to get posted some more though.

thirst · Sep 3, 2020

Here’s my goldenrod amongst a bunch of my other sps. You can see the Tropicana also behind it.

I find both are quite interesting. The goldenrod is the yellowest sps in my tank. The Tropicana is orange with green polyps

picture taken w iPhone11

DaneGer21 · Sep 3, 2020

Here’s mine, I picked it up about a year ago at a local swap. Same as everyone else, it was just a single stalk with a few tiny fingers and has grown fast since. It wasnt labeled as a yellow, but when it was next to a “green goblin” it was definitely more of a yellow.

I now have to small colonies, feeding wand accident haha.

Pics are taken with an IPhone 7(yes it’s old haha), no fancy settings. Pics were then taken with a clip on orange lense. Flow was stopped for pics.

You can compare a darker green slimmer, a brighter green psammocora, and then the even more bright almost yellow anacropora.

Rick.45cal · Sep 3, 2020

here’s my main colony before I had to remove it and some other colonies that had taken over half of my tank. I could no longer access the bottom or clean the side glass because of it) It became HUGE and took over. It’s really a cool coral and I loved mine. (I still have a secondary colony, and the larger one is already growing back LOL).

Marlon C · Sep 20, 2020

Rick.45cal said:
here’s my main colony before I had to remove it and some other colonies that had taken over half of my tank. I could no longer access the bottom or clean the side glass because of it) It became HUGE and took over. It’s really a cool coral and I loved mine. (I still have a secondary colony, and the larger one is already growing back LOL).

Do you want to send a frag my way?