Pectinia coral (calling out all pectinia owners!)

Fishingandreefing · Jan 31, 2021

All

how’s your experience with pectinia corals? I am eyeing a colony of rainbow pectinia. It’s so expensive and I Nervous but it looks so cool.

how does it ship during winter time? We got a bit of snow and the day I wanted to be delivered will be no snow and about 40-45 degree.

if you got a rainbow pectinia, please post picture and share your experience please!

Fishingandreefing · Feb 1, 2021

MohrReefs · Feb 1, 2021

Fishingandreefing said:
All

how’s your experience with pectinia corals? I am eyeing a colony of rainbow pectinia. It’s so expensive and I Nervous but it looks so cool.

how does it ship during winter time? We got a bit of snow and the day I wanted to be delivered will be no snow and about 40-45 degree.

if you got a rainbow pectinia, please post picture and share your experience please!

Only reason I'm hesitant to give advice is the webs say these are a more difficult coral, so I don't want you to hate me if it doesn't work out at that price tag (tidal gardens has them at 150$ a frag) lol.
If you get it from a good place it will ship with a heat pack and at those Temps you should be okay(just make sure its a shipping option that arrives early am). I wouldn't have anything delivered if it was freezing or lower though.

Shufflepig · Feb 1, 2021

I have the space invader pectinia and it has grown well. Seems relatively hardy to me and I think it would ship fine at those temps. The rainbow pectinia looks awesome!!

Fishingandreefing · Feb 1, 2021

Thanks guys!

Fishingandreefing · Feb 1, 2021

MohrReefs said:
Only reason I'm hesitant to give advice is the webs say these are a more difficult coral, so I don't want you to hate me if it doesn't work out at that price tag (tidal gardens has them at 150$ a frag) lol.
If you get it from a good place it will ship with a heat pack and at those Temps you should be okay(just make sure its a shipping option that arrives early am). I wouldn't have anything delivered if it was freezing or lower though.

The rainbow ones are a bit more lol

MohrReefs · Feb 1, 2021

Fishingandreefing said:
The rainbow ones are a bit more lol

Thats what Tidal Gardens is selling for 150$ but its a 1" frag of rainbow.

PTXReef · Apr 29, 2021

I keep mine at the bottom of the tank ~20'' from the surface. Lower light and low flow makes this guy super puffy and color up like crazy! 6'' sweepers at night though

... Did you end up getting one?

Travv26 · May 31, 2021

PTXReef said:
I keep mine at the bottom of the tank ~20'' from the surface. Lower light and low flow makes this guy super puffy and color up like crazy! 6'' sweepers at night though ... Did you end up getting one?

You have a nice piece there, I have once as well and yes the sweepers at night are super lonnng!

How long have you had this rainbow pec, also what do you do to keep the dark bluepurple

PTXReef · Jun 1, 2021

Travv26 said:
You have a nice piece there, I have once as well and yes the sweepers at night are super lonnng!

How long have you had this rainbow pec, also what do you do to keep the dark bluepurple

I’ve had this for over a year. When I first got it from a trade it was much smaller and was completely bleached, like gray/white fully. Low light and feeding with reef roids really colored it up!

Here are two photos of it. One from when I got it to one 8 months ago when it started coloring. Took about a year to get to that coloration.

Travv26 · Jun 2, 2021

That’s a nice recovery, I have one my wife got for me as a surprise had a lot of blues and red/purple with what looked like white growth tips. It changed a lot the white turned to yellow and neon green, lost a lot of the purple if not all the purple. But it’s struggling right now as I’m recovering from a crash. Hopefully it pulls through.

That being said with the crash my rainbow Pectinia has been pulling through nicely. Had to have one being years ago a LFS had an nice big center piece one and in my head I needed a saltwater tank to get that coral.

This is my rainbow as of today in daylight

And this is closer to ramping down more blues

PTXReef · Jun 3, 2021

Travv26 said:
That’s a nice recovery, I have one my wife got for me as a surprise had a lot of blues and red/purple with what looked like white growth tips. It changed a lot the white turned to yellow and neon green, lost a lot of the purple if not all the purple. But it’s struggling right now as I’m recovering from a crash. Hopefully it pulls through.

That being said with the crash my rainbow Pectinia has been pulling through nicely. Had to have one being years ago a LFS had an nice big center piece one and in my head I needed a saltwater tank to get that coral.

This is my rainbow as of today in daylight

And this is closer to ramping down more blues

Ours look similar! Very nice piece!

rhostam · Jun 21, 2021

PTXReef said:
I keep mine at the bottom of the tank ~20'' from the surface. Lower light and low flow makes this guy super puffy and color up like crazy! 6'' sweepers at night though ... Did you end up getting one?

I didn't know these inflated. How cool.

mattdg · Aug 29, 2023

As a frag, pectinia can be temperamental. As a full sized colony, our Space Invader is one of the hardiest coral in our 120 mixed reef. Still mixed luck with fragging, but more often than not, the frags now take to encrusting on a plug. We had a frag of rainbow that wasted away, but I'd definitely try one. I the case of pectinia, starting with the biggest frag possible will help.