Cadillac Splice??!!

[BradB]

No, that's way above my budget. Frag came from therman, he has some high end stuff, so maybe he has a rainbow splice.

I am just curious, Pink Cadillac is such a popular and widely distributed coral - does anyone NOT have any green?

The 'splice' is cool, but I'd much rather have the standard pink coral than an all-green version which looks like so many other green acros.

 

[Big E]

I've had Pink Caddys go green on branches just like some of the pics. I attribute it to stress and poor growth.

A thriving fully colored pink caddy is a beautiful coral but it can be tough at times to pull out the colors that made it popular if it's not thriving.

 

[A Young Reefer]

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

Anyway I can infect my corals with that virus? Perhaps feed them some batfish?

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

I've had Pink Caddys go green on branches just like some of the pics. I attribute it to stress and poor growth.

A thriving fully colored pink caddy is a beautiful coral but it can be tough at times to pull out the colors that made it popular if it's not thriving.

My colony is definitely not stressed. Albeit it is only in about 225 PAR right now. This GFP is bright. I mean super bright. My pics don’t even do the brightness justice. Not like the typical green you get in a colored down colony.

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

Anyway I can infect my corals with that virus? Perhaps feed them some batfish?

Sweet looking fish!

 

[therman]

No, that's way above my budget. Frag came from therman, he has some high end stuff, so maybe he has a rainbow splice.

I am just curious, Pink Cadillac is such a popular and widely distributed coral - does anyone NOT have any green?

The 'splice' is cool, but I'd much rather have the standard pink coral than an all-green version which looks like so many other green acros.

All Pink Cadillac normally has green tones in the base and shaded areas. The ones posted here are much brighter swirled coloration that is from a GFP infection.

I do have Rainbow Splice but I've had GFP infected acros many years before that coral was in the hobby. The Rainbow Splice and Raising Reefs blue flame are different from a "normal" GFP infection, in that they are a chimera of two different color variants of the coral (orange+green/pink+blue in splice, peach+yellow-green/purple+aqua in the flame), with whatever gene that controls that pigmentation flipping back and forth throughout the colony. GFP infections are an overwhelming green that typically swamps all other pigments and spreads from one spot in a colony. At least this is my interpretation of what is going on, from what I've seen in person.

 

[BradB]

My question would be how this developed over time. If this was a pink colony that suddenly turned green and turns back to pink, I'd assume it was either damaged or growing fast. If this has consistently bright green patches that don't change color much as it grows, then it is like rainbow splice, very exciting, and probably unrelated to any green in mine.

Mine is very bright green in areas of the fastest growth, which so far, is just encrusting base and not the tips on the colony. If there is any "green tones" in the base of the coral that isn't growing (such as towards the center) it is very subtle green. When I started a new frag (unfortunately lost behind the rockwork), I was upset as I would never be able to resell it as pink Cadillac - it looked like nuclear green tort and even I was starting to doubt it was the same coral.

If my schedule allows, I will cut a few more frags for the swap at the end of February soon and report what happens - just been too busy lately.

 

[Xanthurum]

Apparently I have a Cadillac Splice as well! I purchased my Pink Cadillac from @SawCJack00 and I have RRC Rainbow Splice in the tank.

 

[sculpin01]

Chimeric colonies will typically have dominant and non dominant cell lines. In this case the dominant cell line would be pink, while the non dominant would be green. The green is only seen when the colony becomes large enough for it to show (think 90% pink, 10% green) or if the pink cell line loses coloration for some reason.

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

Chimeric colonies will typically have dominant and non dominant cell lines. In this case the dominant cell line would be pink, while the non dominant would be green. The green is only seen when the colony becomes large enough for it to show (think 90% pink, 10% green) or if the pink cell line loses coloration for some reason.

I feel chimerism would be more inline with a truly “grafted” coral. This coral is not grafted via 2 separate and independent corals. This is 1 genetic coral with an infected protein.

 

[sculpin01]

I feel chimerism would be more inline with a truly “grafted” coral. This coral is not grafted via 2 separate and independent corals. This is 1 genetic coral with an infected protein.

Possibly. It also could be that the non dominant cell line is usually suppressed and the dominant cell line is the norm.

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

As @therman pointed out earlier in the thread, check out this Reef Builders article. https://reefbuilders.com/2009/11/04/gfp-infection-radically-alters-stony-corals-green-jacket/

It’s really pretty easy to see what’s going on with my coral. I won’t speculate on anyone else’s

 

[BCSreef]

Here is my oddity. Must be the water. The op , Jesse and I live minutes away. actually he is on city and I’m on well water.

What is or what was it before the change?

 

[BCSreef]

I finally got back home and have some photos. Here are the side-by side photos of the original Greg C Efflo from BC and the green one. It has been on its side in the frag rack and faded on one side. The photo has the green one from what would be a "top-down" orientation to show the green better. To be fair the original Greg C Efflo has been on the sand at low PAR and the green version at much higher PAR.

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

I finally got back home and have some photos. Here are the side-by side photos of the original Greg C Efflo from BC and the green one. It has been on its side in the frag rack and faded on one side. The photo has the green one from what would be a "top-down" orientation to show the green better. To be fair the original Greg C Efflo has been on the sand at low PAR and the green version at much higher PAR.

That’s a drastic difference. Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

Cut a nice marbled frag off the Pink Cadillac today. You can even see the 1 polyp has green in it too. Pretty amazing!

 

[Jay6363]

Any updates?

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

Any updates?

It’s been a while hasn’t it? I just snapped this one real quick. It’s pretty crazy how the colors evolve as the coral grows. The original color is still there but both colors have morphed in different areas. Quite stunning to watch....

 

[Jay6363]

That’s absolutely gorgeous!!!

 

[Graffiti Spot]

I had a piece of copps Bella acro that was infected in his tank. He had cut the infected piece and was growing it out in a lower corner of his display, showing oranges pinks and greens, turning some crazy colors though, not the typical green pigment infection. I had a cutting from it and lost it sadly. I would have loved to see it grown out in a different tank. Maybe he will pop up with some pictures of his colony if he still has it growing. He seems to be busy with other stuff these days.