Is this a Walt Disney frag?

[Bubs2]

Hey R2R! I don't know if this is the correct place to ask this so if this isn't the right place I'm sorry. Well, as the title states I'm wondering if this is a WD frag. I'm really confused, there are some people saying yes and there are some people that have are saying deffinately not, so I just want some more opinions. Supposedly the mama was direct from Mike. Here are some pictures: (I can add more as needed, I will try my best to take the photos with my S7)

 

[Slayvoff]

definitely maybe

 

[Bubs2]

definitely maybe

Let it grow out and tell from there? Some mans said the whole growth pattern is totally off.

 

[Salty1962]

You'll be able to tell after it's encrusted./ing. Looks like a maybe;Wacky

 

[Bubs2]

You'll be able to tell after it's encrusted./ing. Looks like a maybe;Wacky

Ok, thank you. Fingers crossed.

 

[BoomCorals]

It's really hard to say. It appears to me you have it under pretty heavy blue/actinic/uv and the WD has some flourescent coloring under those lights. This doesn't appear to have that. My WD frag is the same size as yours and under lighting like that you can see it quite easily. But again very hard to tell by these pics so as someone else said, definitely maybe?

 

[Bubs2]

It's really hard to say. It appears to me you have it under pretty heavy blue/actinic/uv and the WD has some flourescent coloring under those lights. This doesn't appear to have that. My WD frag is the same size as yours and under lighting like that you can see it quite easily. But again very hard to tell by these pics so as someone else said, definitely maybe?

Thanks for replying. I think when I took the picture it was with my whites, when I take them under blues the frag just gets washed out with blues, I don't know if it's because it hasn't gained any "special" WD colors but it just turns into a brownish blue

 

[ChiCity]

WD has very prominent polyp extension, you'll know for sure in a few weeks...

 

[Bubs2]

WD has very prominent polyp extension, you'll know for sure in a few weeks...

Do you mean once it gets more used to my tank or grows out more?

 

[AcroNem]

It's an Acropora tenuis, so....technically yes (; I mean, it's not like the Disney is its own species, its colors are just different. It doesn't look to have the colors of the tenuis named WD, but then again I don't think you have your saturation cranked up and are blasting it with 100% actinic right?

 

[Bubs2]

It's an Acropora tenuis, so....technically yes (; I mean, it's not like the Disney is its own species, its colors are just different. It doesn't look to have the colors of the tenuis named WD, but then again I don't think you have your saturation cranked up and are blasting it with 100% actinic right?

Well that's the thing. It's just brown in whites, morning sun through the shade, and just brown blue in actinics. I don't know if it needs to gain color over time [emoji848]

 

[AcroNem]

Well that's the thing. It's just brown in whites, morning sun through the shade, and just brown blue in actinics. I don't know if it needs to gain color over time [emoji848]

Acropora do take a looong time to recover and show more color. Just give it time.

 

[Bubs2]

Acropora do take a looong time to recover and show more color. Just give it time.

Ok, thanks for the help

 

[Ibn]

Colors and corallites do change, especially with frags, since they're usually taken from the tips.

This was my original picture of the one that I received with lineage on 5/22/17.

I chunked it in half and split the other half to my buddy. Here it is mounted on the rocks on 6/5/17.

Here it is as of today, both sides of it (one side gets more light). You can compare it to the pic above to see how the branches and corallites are thickening.
Less light

More light where the encrusting edge is growing out.

 

[Bubs2]

Colors and corallites do change, especially with frags, since they're usually taken from the tips.

This was my original picture of the one that I received with lineage on 5/22/17.

I chunked it in half and split the other half to my buddy. Here it is mounted on the rocks on 6/5/17.

Here it is as of today, both sides of it (one side gets more light). You can compare it to the pic above to see how the branches and corallites are thickening.
Less light

More light where the encrusting edge is growing out.

WOW!! That's some nice coloration in 14 days!! Thanks for showing the pictures. Appreciate it

 

[brogers]

I dunno....hard to brown out a WD....never seen one in such bad shape.

 

[brogers]

I dunno....hard to brown out a WD....never seen one in such bad shape.

 

[brogers]

I dunno....hard to brown out a WD....never seen one in such bad shape.

 

[RedSox81]

Colors and corallites do change, especially with frags, since they're usually taken from the tips.

This was my original picture of the one that I received with lineage on 5/22/17.

I chunked it in half and split the other half to my buddy. Here it is mounted on the rocks on 6/5/17.

Here it is as of today, both sides of it (one side gets more light). You can compare it to the pic above to see how the branches and corallites are thickening.
Less light

More light where the encrusting edge is growing out.

Very nice. What kind of flow does it like?

 

[AcroNem]

I dunno....hard to brown out a WD....never seen one in such bad shape.

Strange, most WD frags I see are usually described as "browned a bit from shipping" or "still coloring up" even after being in the system for a while (;