ISO a Bright YELLOW SPS any ideas

[jda]

Westsite Tort gets yellow tips and yellow branches well beyond what a typical WWC Yellow Tip does, but they are not all yellow. Anybody can keep these corals.

Banana Loanki is pretty good, but they seem to need a lot of spectrum over 500nm to keep that color and cannot typically handle a lot of light. These are as good as it gets, IMO, but still have a tint of green in them for most folks. Lokani are also not all that easy to keep for everybody.

If anybody ever finds a true yellow coral, they hit the lottery.

 

[jbarre03]

Pink Floyd and pink lemonade are great. Something that’s similar to pikachu is a wolverine which both are awesome.

 

[Ibn]

Most everything is greenish or with a green tint to them, with the exception of when they are in lower nutrient systems, when they can start to look a bit more yellowish. I don't run a ULNS even though my nitrates are only at .25 ppm and I have to add KNO3 to it to keep it detectable, but I also have high phosphates that might also attribute to the greens.

Here are some pics of the mentioned corals in this thread and how they look in my tank.

Tyree PL

RR Pink Floyd. Tips are truly yellow under blues, but under daylight, not so much. Also, notice that the base is darker (background).

TCK Lightning Bolt. This is a close to color cousin of the pikachu, as mentioned by TCK. I gave half my original frag to a buddy of mine and under his lower nutrient system, it is indeed more yellow than green.

Here's a wild piece that came in from Australia from a LFS. I've had this one get more yellowish as my nutrients bottom out, but haven't seen that in awhile. It's in recovery mode at the moment.

RR Wolverine

 

[Stonecold]

These are the 2 yellows I see in my tank....

 

[tripdad]

I didn't get the link just right, not my forte', but in this tank is the only true yellow sps I've seen, Krzysztof Tryc's reef tank, November 2014. It is an ULNS for sure. Have asked for an ID to no avail years ago. Nonetheless a fun watch.

 

[Wu Tang Clam]

My yellow florida is pretty yellow

 

[ReeferMadness80G]

Yellow Millie under daylight! Imagine this under LED, unfortunately the colony was lost from a sting from euphyllia

 

[MontiFanatic402]

Yellow Efflo....

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Some of the really nice rainbow tenuis maricultured that come in four colors will end up keeping some really nice true yellow in them. There are a lot more nice yellows coming in in the past few years. You really have to have a keen acropora eye to be able to pick out a wild or maricultured yellow acro that will stay yellow. As well as a good eye the right tank conditions are needed to get a number of the yellow acros to turn a true yellow. But only a few species will stay a solid yellow when thoes tank conditions are not met.
A lot of these photos of people's yellows are very green corals. And a number that are fresh from collection and most of thoes will end up looking very different once aclimated to a tank.
Another thing is I don't trust vendor pictures either. They know all the tricks to make average corals look like some one of a kinds. Some are much better at it than others.

Bottom line is there are true yellow acropora, we just give a lot of them a reason to show green hues.

 

[hart24601]

I have seen quite a few of these corals in person like the Floyd in a few different tanks and I have not personally seen an acro I would call yellow in real life.

JF burning banana I have looks yellow, but it's not an acro of course.

 

[Acrostick]

The U.C. Bananarama is the best yellow I've seen. This mine in my system and I also have the pink floyd. The Bananarama is true yellow in lower nutrients.

 

[Acrostick]

Here it is when my nutrients were a little higher. You can see some green

 

[Acrostick]

UC Bananarama higher nutrient

 

[ycnibrc]

There really are no true bright yellow sps.

Tyree limited pink lemonade

 

[ycnibrc]

BC poison envy

 

[OriginalUserName]

How about something like Acan Lord's Ultra Protostar psamacora? I have one and it's a very nice bright yellow.

 

[TexasTodd]

I had a true yellow one about 12 years ago. It was either a humulis or a samonsius (spelling) big thick fat stumpy branches. Pure true yellow and the edges of the corralites turned orange. Had it for about a year. It was the only coral I lost when moving from a 90g to a 215g. I sold one frag to a guy in Austin. I'll have to see if I can dig an old picture up. I've looked high and low and never seen anything else like it. No hint of green, not even when it came in.

 

[BigJohnny]

BC death lemon

 

[Iván Olalla]

Pink lemonade here!

 

[Sailfinguy21]

Yellow porites is yellow.. but they csn turn brown.

Here is what mine looked like

I think its one if the only true yellow sps that dont need camera and light manipulation.

My local petco has one but all their sps got nuked overnight by something i think from those gisnt leathers they put in the tank.... The porites looked alive still... i wish they would just give it to me so i can save it lol... its a shame jow everyone if their sps stned overnight