Documenting RRC Rainbow Splice Growth Thread

MentalNote · Jul 21, 2020

Is that real? Looks more like a raspberry and lime slushy mix than an SPS. Crazy.

Graffiti Spot · Jul 21, 2020

It’s looking great! Developing some nice swirls of the graft now it seems. Should be a really cool look once grown out thanks for documenting it.

Xanthurum · Jul 24, 2020

The pics are nice and all but being able to view it in person is AMAZING! I’m just beginning to stock my tank with SPS and @SawCJack00 is going to be the only vendor I buy from. So far I could not be happier with the corals I’ve purchased. Who knows maybe one day I will even get a piece of this, after all it is my wife’s favorite coral on his website.

Epic Aquaculture · Jul 24, 2020

Xanthurum said:
The pics are nice and all but being able to view it in person is AMAZING! I’m just beginning to stock my tank with SPS and @SawCJack00 is going to be the only vendor I buy from. So far I could not be happier with the corals I’ve purchased. Who knows maybe one day I will even get a piece of this, after all it is my wife’s favorite coral on his website.

Thank you for the kind words Eddie!

Sisterlimonpot · Jul 24, 2020

Xanthurum said:
Who knows maybe one day I will even get a piece of this,

Get in line Eddie! Hehe

Epic Aquaculture · Aug 1, 2020

Here's my August 1st update. A little different angle on the mother colony, and I did cut 2 frags off as backups. Still not selling any yet, but maybe soon...

EA Sunburst Milli photo bombing

Anthrax15 · Aug 1, 2020

That is incredible. The macro shot you took of the colors mixing is wallpaper worthy! Have you noticed the colors continuing throughout the piece or is the green becoming more dominant?

Epic Aquaculture · Aug 3, 2020

Anthrax15 said:
That is incredible. The macro shot you took of the colors mixing is wallpaper worthy! Have you noticed the colors continuing throughout the piece or is the green becoming more dominant?

There seems to be more green up high and more red lower. it will be interesting to see the colors as it continues to grow.

Sisterlimonpot · Aug 3, 2020

SawCJack00 said:
There seems to be more green up high and more red lower. it will be interesting to see the colors as it continues to grow.

I wonder if this is the only account of one growing into a colony. You're in uncharted territory here... eagerly waiting for it to fill out to see how it settles in.

JAMSOURY · Aug 3, 2020

So I made a mistake and bought a nub off Cornbred a while ago. Small piece and had no red at all. Thought I got ripped off and red would never show. Glad to finally see the reds coming in.
Pretty cool that the color defect stays in its dna and doesn’t need both colors in the frag for it to show!

Sisterlimonpot · Aug 3, 2020

JAMSOURY said:
So I made a mistake and bought a nub off Cornbred a while ago. Small piece and had no red at all. Thought I got ripped off and red would never show. Glad to finally see the reds coming in.
Pretty cool that the color defect stays in its dna and doesn’t need both colors in the frag for it to show!

It appears that it doesn't matter where or how you frag it, the 2 colors will eventually show up. Hopefully as the price of these go down, we will start to see more larger colonies and actually marvel in all its beauty.

Epic Aquaculture · Sep 1, 2020

September 1 update:

Epic Aquaculture · Dec 3, 2020

December 2020 update.

Mommy

Child going into my 460 soon.

I have to confess, I did finally sell one. It was the other frag I cut a few months ago.

Graffiti Spot · Dec 3, 2020

Nice update!If anyone knows of a mille that’s got the same purple as this acro but colored solid purple instead let me know! So hard to find a true purple mille, might be almost as hard to find as a grafted mille am I right? That’s what makes this piece special if you ask me, not the graft itself, although grafted acros are awesome when the graft is holding.

It looks like some of the middle grafted areas are not as defined and it has dark green polyps which is kinda cool! I wonder if the darker green will turn purple or stay green.

Stuartmercer · Dec 3, 2020

Omg I needed this thread to keep my sanity up in these times.

sfg · Dec 22, 2020

frag I bought was about 95% green. Here about 8 months later the red has come on strong, its about a 50/50 split.

Epic Aquaculture · Dec 22, 2020

Pedoconfuego said:
Nice update!If anyone knows of a mille that’s got the same purple as this acro but colored solid purple instead let me know! So hard to find a true purple mille, might be almost as hard to find as a grafted mille am I right? That’s what makes this piece special if you ask me, not the graft itself, although grafted acros are awesome when the graft is holding.

It looks like some of the middle grafted areas are not as defined and it has dark green polyps which is kinda cool! I wonder if the darker green will turn purple or stay green.

So this piece is not actually a graft. It is the result of a green fluorescent protein infection. It is actually a reddish purple, or whatever color you wish to call it Millepora that has absorbed the green florescent protein from other corals. The reason the middle is more green is because I have fragged the tips which were much more balanced in color and glued them around the base. As the branches grow out they develop the reddish purple color, so now the middle is also developing the reddish purple color.

SBB Corals · Dec 22, 2020

WOW great growth and nice growout. It seems to have grown very fast!!! Great job. cant wait to see future pics!

when will the next update be?

LRT · Dec 22, 2020

All I can say is wow! Stunning coral. Awesome progression thread. Totally Epic

Epic Aquaculture · Dec 22, 2020

SBB Corals said:
WOW great growth and nice growout. It seems to have grown very fast!!! Great job. cant wait to see future pics!

when will the next update be?

Thank you Shane, I'll post an update on January 1