Bubba's SPS Journey

I thought this was a SPS thread? :(
It is, bud. I needed advice on some new lights for my sps frag tank. Who better to ask than people who follow an sps thread?
 
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I call this one my Unlucky PC Rainbow. I traded some frags for a red planet. The frag was browned out but I wasn't too worried, as I knew it would eventually color up. Well the frag started to color and grow and I noticed the frag was not starting to table, as a red planet does. I reached out to the guy and asked if he was sure it was a red planet. He assured me it was but I had doubts. I have never seen his tank, so I could only go by his word. Couple months later I was sure it was a pc rainbow. The guy did up reaching out to me about two months ago and said he was wrong and that it is in fact a pc rainbow and he was fooled when he bought it. I call it my unlucky pc rainbow because if you look at the pic, you will see another pc rainbow right next to it. I was hoping to have a tabling acro that would grow out the ledge but now I have two pc rainbows side by side. :(

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@sawdonkey this is the size mine is.
 
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I call this one my Unlucky PC Rainbow. I traded some frags for a red planet. The frag was browned out but I wasn't too worried, as I knew it would eventually color up. Well the frag started to color and grow and I noticed the frag was not starting to table, as a red planet does. I reached out to the guy and asked if he was sure it was a red planet. He assured me it was but I had doubts. I have never seen his tank, so I could only go by his word. Couple months later I was sure it was a pc rainbow. The guy did up reaching out to me about two months ago and said he was wrong and that it is in fact a pc rainbow and he was fooled when he bought it. I call it my unlucky pc rainbow because if you look at the pic, you will see another pc rainbow right next to it. I was hoping to have a tabling acro that would grow out the ledge but now I have two pc rainbows side by side. :(

PC Rainbow.jpg
That thing grows like a weed too! You'll have a colony like... Tomorrow. [emoji16]
 
I think, at this point, we need a nice HD video of the tank @bubbaque
I do plan to someday. I have a video I made when the tank was first setup. It will be cool to see where it started and how far it has come. I do want things to get slightly larger so you're not watching a video of frags.
 
This is not the prettiest coral but it may be one of the fuzziest. This is hands down the hairiest coral I own. I just wish the polyps would get a better color. I do notice some polyps are starting to transition slightly. This frag has a little better color. I have shared this coral once before. It is a mariculture I picked up a while ago.

Anyone know what species it is?
mari July 10.jpg

mari frag July 10.jpg
 
Will it get less hairy if you move it way up high - some of those super-hairy tenius will have less PE with massive amounts of light. It is cool. I like it. I like anything that is different.
 
Will it get less hairy if you move it way up high - some of those super-hairy tenius will have less PE with massive amounts of light. It is cool. I like it. I like anything that is different.
I can’t really move it higher as it’s just in a frag tank with no rock. I originally had it in the middle of the frag tank under roughly 500 par. It stayed there for probably 4-5 months. The whole time the polyps have stayed the same. About a month or two ago I moved it to the side of the frag tank and it’s getting 300 par now. Polyps are still the same but I noticed the skin got more of a blue color, compared to the tan it was.
 
This is not the prettiest coral but it may be one of the fuzziest. This is hands down the hairiest coral I own. I just wish the polyps would get a better color. I do notice some polyps are starting to transition slightly. This frag has a little better color. I have shared this coral once before. It is a mariculture I picked up a while ago.

Anyone know what species it is?
mari July 10.jpg

mari frag July 10.jpg

No idea on the species, but it reminds me of RR Peacock? Maybe they are same species?
 
I think it is a tenuis. Most millies I see now a days have one extra long polyp and very uniform and patterned coralites. The tenuis however can have off set coralites also like a vermiculata, however the PE on that is crazy and its a bit hard to tell with the polpys out.
 
This is not the prettiest coral but it may be one of the fuzziest. This is hands down the hairiest coral I own. I just wish the polyps would get a better color. I do notice some polyps are starting to transition slightly. This frag has a little better color. I have shared this coral once before. It is a mariculture I picked up a while ago.

Anyone know what species it is?
mari July 10.jpg

mari frag July 10.jpg

Tenuis, reminds me of a wwc one I forget the name though.
 

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