Let’s see your secale colonies

[Graffiti Spot]

That one is just purple and I haven’t tried it because I figured it would turn green with purple tips after acclimating to a tank. But your right a uln system could probably get that piece to glow.
This is the one I liked and was talking about but wasn’t sure about the I’d they gave it but it looks close just smaller branches. The if the body stays a pinkish hue and the tips a different color it would look nice especially with the white polyps. Honestly it makes me think of loripes more than secale though and is why I didn’t grab it.
The neon green (looks like you could get it to be yellow in the right situation) ones with the pink tips are very nice looking too. Mine looked great until the nutrient spike and it eventually lost all the tissue.

 

[Sallstrom]

Here are two new colonies we bought for an experiment, bought as A. secale. They are starting to get blue-ish tops now after a month. Still pretty light in colour. They are from Australia I think.

The reason was I wanted to pair them up with our old coral, which might be a A. secale, or something similar. Here is our old colony. Or a bunch of frags of it, put together. This colony forms large massive tables. I have no idea where it's from. We have had it for ten+ years.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Yes that colony is why I was about to pull the trigger on that last pic I posted with the white polyps. White polyps are kinda a tough find. Thanks for sharing! Would love to see how they turn out.

 

[Big E]

That one is just purple and I haven’t tried it because I figured it would turn green with purple tips after acclimating to a tank. But your right a uln system could probably get that piece to glow.
This is the one I liked and was talking about but wasn’t sure about the I’d they gave it but it looks close just smaller branches. The if the body stays a pinkish hue and the tips a different color it would look nice especially with the white polyps. Honestly it makes me think of loripes more than secale though and is why I didn’t grab it.
The neon green (looks like you could get it to be yellow in the right situation) ones with the pink tips are very nice looking too. Mine looked great until the nutrient spike and it eventually lost all the tissue.

Your pic looks like when these corals get more zoo population before they grow and show color........more less a transition stage. The one I posted is what I would call mildy bleached. I don't think either will be the common green/purple as those all usually have green polyps.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

That’s cool, I was curious about the purple one because they have had a few show up but I was going to hold off unless I have issues with the green with pink tips, then I will probably just try the purple one. The white polyps really make the piece look amazing like in sallstroms post that colony doesn’t have a really cool base color but the white polyps contrast so well it makes it look great.
I wish more people were interested in keeping specific acropora. I really believe if more people were keen on collecting some of these wild and Mari pieces it would help the hobby more. There are always corals I see that make me think, why are these not aquacultured? For some reason I think it’s because most people collecting corals these days collect coral because of what the name is and instead of researching what makes a coral unique they research the already existing trade named stuff, prices and availability. I mean right now there is not really that many secale variants that have trade names. I think more people were interested in this stuff back when we used to call corals by the type and color.

 

[Big E]

Blue and purple one color corals aren't as popular because they don't stand out in LED setups that have heavy blue lighting. Unless they have name recognition like Oregon Tort they won't be popular.

 

[vetteguy53081]

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Here is another pink variant with white polyps. This one looks like it will have a green base. Divers send pics always make the greens look a little orangish yellowish green it seems to be its wierd. So really I am not sure what it would look like, I assume the Aussie reefers have seen these for a while? Would love to hear about them, where is biggles when you need him?

 

[jsvand5]

Blue and purple one color corals aren't as popular because they don't stand out in LED setups that have heavy blue lighting. Unless they have name recognition like Oregon Tort they won't be popular.

True. And that’s sad because blues are some of the nicest acros out there IMO.