The funny thing about the whole lineage fiasco. Is that there are multiple named corals that are essentially the same coral. I have seen first hand several, that to the naked eyes can not be distinguished from one sellers original colony, to the next. Of course you can put the corals side to side under the "microscope" and maybe notice a few minute details, however, nothing so great in my humble opinion that it really should make that much of a change in the price of said coral. My LFS store has four different versions of the orange passion. RRA, RRC, SC, RRUSA. Yes if you had them lined up side to side, you can tell a tiny bit of difference in a couple, however due to different prameters in every tank, which will affect the corals display of colors, I seriously doubt anyone would be able to tell which was which. Even in their display tank, which is quite large, I can not see any difference between them from that distance. To me, the whole lineage thing is more of bragging rights sake, than actually the display of colors for many of the corals available. Of course, with anything, there are exceptions to the rule, where a certain coral does display better colors to a similar looking one, but honestly, each system is so different prameter wise, the said coral will look vastly different even if they are both cut from the mother colony at the same time. I am amazed how different some of my favorite corals look in other friends tanks, after I have given them a piece, and they grew it out. There are just too many variables that effect what trait the coral displays. A coral in a zeovit tank will look nothing like the same coral in a high nutrient tank. Sorry, got a little off topic, but you get where I am going.
