Cadillac Splice??!!

[Sweet Reef Corals]

Hey guys, check this out. I’m fairly uninformed when it comes to grafted vs. protein infected corals. Can someone fill me in on the differences??

As I was taking some colony shots today, I came across my RR Pink Cadillac. I had seen this green appearing and just looked past it, thinking that it’s just because it’s in a lower par area of the system and likely turning green. Today I took a shot of it and to my amazement, It’s grafted, or spliced or infected....whatever you call it!! Not sure which. So what is going on here? And do I have a new Sweet Reef Corals piece that I can name the Cadillac Splice??

 

[MnFish1]

Hey guys, check this out. I’m fairly uninformed when it comes to grafted vs. protein infected corals. Can someone fill me in on the differences??

As I was taking some colony shots today, I came across my RR Pink Cadillac. I had seen this green appearing and just looked past it, thinking that it’s just because it’s in a lower par area of the system and likely turning green. Today I took a shot of it and to my amazement, It’s grafted, or spliced or infected....whatever you call it!! Not sure which. So what is going on here? And do I have a new Sweet Reef Corals piece that I can name the Cadillac Splice??

1. It does not look like a low PAR area - unless you are lighting from the bottom
2. Coral often change zooxanthellae over time - such that they change color - depending on light, nutrients, etc.

IMHO

 

[Chrisv.]

Cool!

 

[biecacka]

Hurry and sell for $1000 1/4 inch frags!!

No, I’m kidding. I have no input on your question, but that photo is really cool looking!


corey

 

[homer1475]

Is it actually grafted or just turning from green to brown?

Can you get closer up(macro) pics?

Cool either way. Hurry up, chop it up, and sell each 1/4 nub for $1000. lol

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

Is it actually grafted or just turning from green to brown?

Can you get closer up(macro) pics?

Cool either way. Hurry up, chop it up, and sell each 1/4 nub for $1000. lol

There is no brown. You can see the typical purplish coloration of the Pink Cadillac. Then you see the bright green swirling into it. That is foreign DNA. From what Ive learned over the last few hours is that it is likely a green protein “virus”. For it to be a grafted coral it would have had to have been growing next to (touching) another coral and fused together. That never happened to my colony.

 

[homer1475]

Sorry it looks green and brown, with a hint of maybe light blue on the tips on my screen.

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

Sorry it looks green and brown, with a hint of maybe light blue on the tips on my screen.

I took a DSLR shot of it too. I’ll try to get that off the camera and post it later. This shot here was just a phone pic.

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

Here are a couple DSLR pics....

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

@Reef Builders Hey Jake, would love any info you might have about this. I read your “Hero” article and I’m wondering if this is a viral protein and how a coral gets it?

 

[therman]

Look up GFP infection, it is not all that rare in captive SPS corals. I would guess it is the result of a virus.

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

Look up GFP infection, it is not all that rare in captive SPS corals. I would guess it is the result of a virus.

Do you happen to have any that have done this?

 

[homer1475]

Ok with the DSLR pic it's certainly not brown. lol

 

[therman]

The first hyped one I can remember was the Tyree grafted simplex. BC had the grafted Hung’s rainbow, I have a setosa that is now partially gold and green. My Orenji got purple and green spots after being kept in the same tub as the CC Pop Rocks monti.

 

[therman]

I had some acros do it in the past but I didn’t like how it looked personally. People usually don’t want green acros. I think I shipped out an Oregon tort frag that had green stripes ‍

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

The first hyped one I can remember was the Tyree grafted simplex. BC had the grafted Hung’s rainbow, I have a setosa that is now partially gold and green. My Orenji got purple and green spots after being kept in the same tub as the CC Pop Rocks monti.

I found the Reef Builders article on GFP. Thanks for the tip.

You say BC had the “grafted” Rainbow. It’s not really grafted, but infected right? It seems that the term “grafted” is being used to sound less troublesome than “infected” lol. Or am I misinterpreting something?

 

[therman]

You are exactly right. Grafted/infected/spliced are all thrown around very fast and loose in the hobby. Scientific accuracy is not always a great sales pitch

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

You are exactly right. Grafted/infected/spliced are all thrown around very fast and loose in the hobby. Scientific accuracy is not always a great sales pitch

Great info Tim, I thank you!

 

[Tonycass12]

My pink Cadillac gets the same color green around where its base is encrusting but nothing in the branches like you have. Pretty cool stick

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

My pink Cadillac gets the same color green around where its base is encrusting but nothing in the branches like you have. Pretty cool stick

I’m pretty stoked about it. I really like where the colors streak and swirl. I may frag one of those branches to see how it grows out.