ORA Pearlberry

lbacha · Feb 26, 2018

This is the PB frag I just ordered from WWC.

Livinlocal · Feb 27, 2018

Beautiful pieces everyone !

Big E · Feb 27, 2018

I don't know which are the legit pearlberrys but imo this version is by far the nicest. I lost my colony over a year+ of it browing out fading and just not really growing much until the skin got so thin it died on me.

I want this back........I've got a few frags but not sure what I have now till they grow out more.

littleruttiger · Feb 28, 2018

Big E said:
I don't know which are the legit pearlberrys but imo this version is by far the nicest. I lost my colony over a year+ of it browing out fading and just not really growing much until the skin got so thin it died on me.

I want this back........I've got a few frags but not sure what I have now till they grow out more.

Kind of a not very good question maybe, but any idea why it died like that? I know sometimes with acros it's "just because", but was wondering if maybe you had any suspicions.

That was just beautiful, I don't know which is worse, a year long, slow death, or an instant, over-night one

Big E · Feb 28, 2018

littleruttiger said:
Kind of a not very good question maybe, but any idea why it died like that? I know sometimes with acros it's "just because", but was wondering if maybe you had any suspicions.

That was just beautiful, I don't know which is worse, a year long, slow death, or an instant, over-night one

Wish I knew what caused it's dormancy when all the corals around it are fine. My guess would be it's at a microbial level I could never begin to understand.

lucky7 · Mar 2, 2018

This is a frag from cherry corals , what you guys think?

jda · Mar 2, 2018

The Cherry one looks OG legit. WWC does not to me unless they lose the sky blue color under their lights.

larangcon · Mar 2, 2018

That's a nice frag

cwb_reeftank · Mar 3, 2018

Ok so now they have seen what it looks like what is it care requirements and if you have had and got it to a colony what was your parameters?

hollback · Mar 3, 2018

Cherry Corals is the vendor who bought the large chunk I posted earlier. I assume this frag is from that piece.

lucky7 said:
This is a frag from cherry corals , what you guys think?

Greenstreet.1 · Mar 3, 2018

Well this thread is going to cause a price jump on this so I hope I get one before it gets crazy [emoji12] [emoji23]

jda · Mar 3, 2018

cwb_reeftank said:
Ok so now they have seen what it looks like what is it care requirements and if you have had and got it to a colony what was your parameters?

Metal Halides and NSWish water parameters... 1.026, 7.0-7.2, 425, .1N and .01P... best color and growth combo for me. Normal SPS flow - I am not a super-high flow guy, but I have enough.

lucky7 · Mar 3, 2018

hollback said:
Cherry Corals is the vendor who bought the large chunk I posted earlier. I assume this frag is from that piece.

@hollback Looks to be the case. Was your original piece from Ora? I bought that frag from cherry

hollback · Mar 3, 2018

Yes and somewhere underneath all that is a black ORA plug.

FarmerTy · Mar 3, 2018

hollback said:
Yes and somewhere underneath all that is a black ORA plug.

Thank you for the confirmation. I have 3 different versions currently of pearlberry. I feel like the latest is actually it but I'm not taking chances. Ordered one from Cherry Corals. At the worst, I'll have two I can put together to make a larger colony.

Hentz · Mar 4, 2018

Picked this up last year. Was much smaller, unhealthy looking, and turd brown. Today it’s one of the quickest and healthiest growing Acropora in my tank. Looks like a true Pearlberry but I’m no expert. Picture was taken under my Blue LED’s with an orange filter.

Hentz · Mar 4, 2018

Here was a picture of it 7 months ago.

larangcon · Mar 4, 2018

Hentz said:
Picked this up last year. Was much smaller, unhealthy looking, and turd brown. Today it’s one of the quickest and healthiest growing Acropora in my tank. Looks like a true Pearlberry but I’m no expert. Picture was taken under my Blue LED’s with an orange filter.

Hentz said:
Here was a picture of it 7 months ago.

Nice growth and colors in 7 months

RussiReef · Mar 4, 2018

I don’t know lineage of my PB, but it is one of the nicest coral in my collection. Growing under Radion GEN2

Ryan Doolittle · Mar 5, 2018

Big E said:
I don't know which are the legit pearlberrys but imo this version is by far the nicest. I lost my colony over a year+ of it browing out fading and just not really growing much until the skin got so thin it died on me.

I want this back........I've got a few frags but not sure what I have now till they grow out more.

One of the best Pearl Berry I have seen. Still a favourite of mine.

I have a small frag but like most on here with their pieces I think mine is a fake.