I got this at a frag show a few years ago as a longer branching tricolor of some type. It came from what appeared to be a chop shop type vendor and was a 2” stag like form. It grew fast but it never was anything very nice color wise and looked a little like a more purple version of Copp’s Calacali (looks nothing like it now) with a more bottle brush form, at least until I got hit with aefw and back to back Asia trips, one during which the dKH dropped to 4. I’m shocked any acropora made it out alive, but I have some survivors.
This was eaten from the base up, then it was stn’ing, and then it was fighting a battle with coralline algae that has taken over corals seemingly stronger than it. Then it started yi her bulbous like growth as each branch tried to form a base. Now it’s sprouting from where a few branches bulb like bases fused together. This thing has almost been almost sold, given away, relegated to the anemone tank, or thrown in a bucket of bleach more times than I can count.
What do you think, is it just an abused tricolor that colored up in a weird way? I’m not sure what to do with it. Should I move it to the display? Leave it be? Frag it and let the frags grow and see what the bulb like bases shoot out? I I was leaning towards the later, but it almost seems a shame to butcher hack it up now. What would you do?
Sorry for the cell phone pics. I really need to bust out a real camera...
This was eaten from the base up, then it was stn’ing, and then it was fighting a battle with coralline algae that has taken over corals seemingly stronger than it. Then it started yi her bulbous like growth as each branch tried to form a base. Now it’s sprouting from where a few branches bulb like bases fused together. This thing has almost been almost sold, given away, relegated to the anemone tank, or thrown in a bucket of bleach more times than I can count.
What do you think, is it just an abused tricolor that colored up in a weird way? I’m not sure what to do with it. Should I move it to the display? Leave it be? Frag it and let the frags grow and see what the bulb like bases shoot out? I I was leaning towards the later, but it almost seems a shame to butcher hack it up now. What would you do?
Sorry for the cell phone pics. I really need to bust out a real camera...
