Hung's Rainbow, let's see it!

WDKegge · May 11, 2021

Got this piece from a friend of mine, Anyone else have it? Would love to see a colony pic.

Mine took a long while to encrust, lost it's color in an alk swing, but now is roaring back to life and starting to branch.

The colors on this acro are so crazy to me!

Epic Aquaculture · May 11, 2021

WDKegge said:
Got this piece from a friend of mine, Anyone else have it? Would love to see a colony pic.

Mine took a long while to encrust, lost it's color in an alk swing, but now is roaring back to life and starting to branch.

The colors on this acro are so crazy to me!

I had a very nice piece doing well, then had some issues in the grow out tank, and I now have one small piece (min colony sized) that is re-growing. It's a very slow grower though. Here was a pic taken about 6 months before the issue. One of my favorites for sure!

WDKegge · Jul 1, 2021

Update as of yesterday:

Sabellafella · Jul 1, 2021

One of my favorite acros. This was a few months ago is way way bigger now

coralbeauties · Jul 5, 2021

Here’s mine. Been in the system for quite some time and nothing but encrustation
Jeff

therman · Jul 5, 2021

This is my favorite photo of it.

This colony got much bigger and I fragged it out completely before I realized I hadn't taken another nice shot of it.
Here's when it was bigger but just sort of an accidental phone shot through the side of the prop tank that doesn't show colors at all:

Dont have another big colony like this at the moment. Next best one right now is a little under half of this size and a bunch of encrusting frags from mama that I've been sitting on.

Definitely one of my all time favorite corals!

Coling · Sep 8, 2021

How much light/flow are y'all giving your Hung's Rainbow? Mine is at about 450 PAR with strong flow. It has pretty good color but no sign of growth or even encrusting after a few months. Not sure if I should move it or not.

therman · Sep 8, 2021

Coling said:
How much light/flow are y'all giving your Hung's Rainbow? Mine is at about 450 PAR with strong flow. It has pretty good color but no sign of growth or even encrusting after a few months. Not sure if I should move it or not.

This coral is quite finicky and loves to stall out. I use nighttime polyp extension and amount of yellow on the tips of my vertically growing colonies as an almost daily barometer of how stable and happy my system is and what my phosphate level is.

I have grown out colonies of it from 400-550PAR, so I think your lighting is fine.

happyhourhero · Sep 8, 2021

therman said:
This coral is quite finicky and loves to stall out. I use nighttime polyp extension and amount of yellow on the tips of my vertically growing colonies as an almost daily barometer of how stable and happy my system is and what my phosphate level is.

I have grown out colonies of it from 400-550PAR, so I think your lighting is fine.

Do you use the night time gauge as a measure on all acros or just this one? Can you say a bit more about that?

Coling · Sep 9, 2021

therman said:
This coral is quite finicky and loves to stall out. I use nighttime polyp extension and amount of yellow on the tips of my vertically growing colonies as an almost daily barometer of how stable and happy my system is and what my phosphate level is.

I have grown out colonies of it from 400-550PAR, so I think your lighting is fine.

Thank you!

therman · Sep 9, 2021

happyhourhero said:
Do you use the night time gauge as a measure on all acros or just this one? Can you say a bit more about that?

Can use it on all as an indicator of healthy active growth. Some days/times PE will be extreme and that is a good sign. If you have a few days or a week where it is basically nil, something is probably off. It is also an indicator of where new growth (apical corallites) are starting to form on an encrusted base or older branch.

Epic Aquaculture · Sep 9, 2021

therman said:
Can use it on all as an indicator of healthy active growth. Some days/times PE will be extreme and that is a good sign. If you have a few days or a week where it is basically nil, something is probably off. It is also an indicator of where new growth (apical corallites) are starting to form on an encrusted base or older branch.

happyhourhero · Sep 9, 2021

therman said:
Can use it on all as an indicator of healthy active growth. Some days/times PE will be extreme and that is a good sign. If you have a few days or a week where it is basically nil, something is probably off. It is also an indicator of where new growth (apical corallites) are starting to form on an encrusted base or older branch.

Thank you! One last pick of your brain. Do you feed your sps things like Phyto, oyster feast, etc?

therman · Sep 9, 2021

happyhourhero said:
Thank you! One last pick of your brain. Do you feed your sps things like Phyto, oyster feast, etc?

I make a DIY blender food that is a mix of various seafood, mysis, ReefRoids, nori, etc. I feed it to fish, but also blend some really fine and freeze small cubes to feed to corals. Seems to help with PE.