Anyone keep blue ridge ?

[Udest]

I've had some blue ridge for over a year and love how quickly it grows just wondering if anyone else likes it as well even though it's not super colorful.

 

[fishguy242]

i love it have strain since 1993,fragged soo much started out baseball size if did not sell and give away would be bigger than my house2nd pic was half of 75 gallon

 

[Udest]

the branching on that is beautiful mine hasn't branched yet its basing out instead : / i hope to get it to soon though.

 

[I’ma tempermental coral]

I love blue ridge! I was thinking about grabbing a chunk from a friend and mounting it to my back glass to make a natural ledge!

 

[WVNed]

I have several now. It grows like weeds. If a piece falls off you just stick it in a hole in a rock.

 

[Udest]

I love how blue ridge grows so fast what temp do you guys keep yours at ? iv noticed when i had a different heater i had polyp extension.

 

[WVNed]

78-79.
The lights came on.

 

[Colby pierson]

Grows super quick for me. Not too many people tend to like to buy frags because of the lack of color but the grow pattern is unique.

 

[fishguy242]

honestly i think,would have too let dry to kill, 79 degree average params,lil trick ti get to branch,nick it w pokey thing,or place tiny piece of crushed coral on live

 

[Vette67]

I had a piece of blue ridge that I got when I bought a pipe organ coral. The pipe organ had grown around the blue ridge. I pulled the blue ridge frag out, not even knowing what it was. It took me a while to figure out what it was. I originally thought it was fire coral. But It grows crazy fast. And fun fact, it is one of the only dead dry coral skeletons that float. But that was one of the corals I lost in 2012 when I had a huge GHA outbreak. Not the most colorful coral, but definitely unique growth pattern with the spires that grow upwards. I still have the skeleton of that coral and the rock it grew on, in my 75. I wish I still had it.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I have a nice chunk. Easy grower and care

 

[WVNed]

I got it from a LFS for $5. I had trouble believing it was a live thing. It felt like a piece of plastic in the hand. It blew around the tank in the flow. I finally set a rock on it and wedged it in good.

Then it took off

 

[Udest]

hrmmm I've been keeping my tank on the cool side about 70 ~72 see if i cant install that other heater.

 

[mwoodard14]

I've had some blue ridge for over a year and love how quickly it grows just wondering if anyone else likes it as well even though it's not super colorful.

Here’s a shot of some of my Blue Ridge
It’s a beautiful coral

I actually just sold the piece in front. So happy to see this coral get some attention, it’s amazing in it’s own unique ways

 

[sepulvd85]

Here’s a shot of some of my Blue Ridge
It’s a beautiful coral

I actually just sold the piece in front. So happy to see this coral get some attention, it’s amazing in it’s own unique ways

dang now i want one. Time to search for it

 

[Udest]

Is that a candy cane growing on the one in the back ? That's pretty coot if it will do that without killing its neighbors.

 

[dennis romano]

MY colony is twenty years old and has survived three day black outs and heater malfunctions

 

[mwoodard14]

Is that a candy cane growing on the one in the back ? That's pretty coot if it will do that without killing its neighbors.

Yes it is Metallic Blue Trumpet coral growing out of the side of the Blue Ridge. It is very cool

 

[Trouble1375]

Here’s a shot of some of my Blue Ridge
It’s a beautiful coral

I actually just sold the piece in front. So happy to see this coral get some attention, it’s amazing in it’s own unique ways

That Blue Ridge in its new home

 

[Udest]

Come to think about it what flow do you guys have it in mine has been encrusting instead of going outward.