Aquascene Icefire placement?

[alten78]

Picked up a frag of this at a local swap a few weeks ago, currently about 6-7 in off the bottom on my 75 w/T5's (4x54 but 2 more will be added back when i get my canopy back on next week) and moderate flow.

Thoughts on where this thing does best?

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Never had one, but here's a bump to see if others can help. #SPSExperts

 

[favites]

Mine always looked best and grew well in lower light (less than 300 par) in moderate flow where the greenish hues to the base were more prominent. I suspect like most acros if properly acclimated would do well in a variety of light conditions...

Mark

 

[hotnickz07]

I have a wild one at sitting in the lower part of my tank. It doing very good there . When i got it it was brown and ugly, Now it looks amazing. Its getting about 200+ par from 6x24 t5s, and moderate to high flow depending on the timw of the day.

 

[alten78]

Thanks all! I don't have a par meter but I may lower it some once I add back my other two bulbs.

 

[Seth401]

Mine has been happy in multiple locations but has done best close to the bottom under led powermodule. Probably about 150-185 par. If only it would stop encrusting. For a sps that apparently isn't known for encrusting a lot my has encrusted an absurd amount. Been really hardy as well. Due to work schedule my tank has been neglected and I've lost quite a few really nice sps, but the ice fire a long with some others seem to keep trucking

 

[alten78]

Anybody have pics to share?

 

[bios]

Ice fire is an echinata a family of deep water acros
They like actinic lights and very low white
Flow must be very low as the tissue of this acros is very thin
But must be present
In any case they must be acclimate to water and lights of your tank very slowly

 

[alten78]

Ice fire is an echinata a family of deep water acros
They like actinic lights and very low white
Flow must be very low as the tissue of this acros is very thin
But must be present
In any case they must be acclimate to water and lights of your tank very slowly

Interesting, I've read quite a bit about this piece since acquiring it and I have not seen these particular suggestions stated.

Unfortunately, I lost this particular frag amongst a number of others to a poorly executed tank moving disaster. Picked up another a little over a month ago and so far so good, sitting lower in the tank under a combo of 3x blue+ and 3x coral+ with med-high flow.

 

[bios]

Generally to acclimate it and every kind of deep water acros I use a corner opposite to the one with power head were the flow and lights are very
Low and more actinic then I wait for a week since coral acclimate well monitoring its status every night with a led torch you can see better tissue of the acro
This the last ,from one week ,is a suharsonoi

 

[alten78]

Generally to acclimate it and every kind of deep water acros I use a corner opposite to the one with power head were the flow and lights are very
Low and more actinic then I wait for a week since coral acclimate well monitoring its status every night with a led torch you can see better tissue of the acro
This the last ,from one week ,is a suharsonoi

Thanks for sharing! Just goes to show that there are many ways to keep things. I will agree to disagree with you in terms of flow, like everything else they (so called "deepwater" or smooth skinned acros) need plenty of indirect flow but each one should have individual assessments

I do agree with acclimating to light intensity but i have never ran any type of actinics, the blue+ bulb gives provides enough for me not to use them. I've had multiple Hawkins at the same time, one high and one low. The higher was always more blue while the lower was a turquoise green. I'm hoping that keeping this Icefire lower that it will keep its blue tips and white body.

 

[hybridazn]

Here's a quick pic of mine, it's lower in the tank under 250w radiums.

 

[Donovan Joannes]

I have 3 echinatas and they are all in the mid section of my tank. Quite new, but definitely likes lower par. They aren't showing much PE under higher par.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Ice fire is an echinata a family of deep water acros
They like actinic lights and very low white
Flow must be very low as the tissue of this acros is very thin
But must be present
In any case they must be acclimate to water and lights of your tank very slowly

Deepwater acros don't nessesarily come from deeper water than anything else, it's more of a generalization for acros with less and more spaced out polyps, which means more smooth skin you can see. I have seen many echinata do great in higher light and good strong random flow. Never heard of the tissue being thiner than any other acropora, got any links about this? It is more sensitive especially with certain dips though. Aclimation to water of a tank is somewhat impossible and if your talking about dripping corals when introduced, not needed.
Aclimation to LEDs might be a good thing though I don't have experience with them. If wild collected or maricultured I don't bother aclimating to light much at all since they are used to a good amount of light already, especially in certain regions of collection.