Pink Lemonade Growth

zoomonster · Apr 26, 2016

bubbaque said:
I was very close to buying a frag at RAP but someone there told me most colonies are dying of the pink lemonade. I wish I would of bought a frag, I love the look.

Haven't heard that one. Stormborn Reef (Debary) has a good sized colony they bought off a tank tear down and I think it was an original Jason Fox. Not sure if they are fragging it yet or not. Mine actually came from Battlecorals.

bubbaque · Apr 26, 2016

This particular vendor didn't have a frag of pink lemonade, so he might of told me that to buy one of his that's similar.

rovster · Apr 26, 2016

I thought the original was a Tyree piece, actually pretty sure it is. Mine came from BC as well.

choco24 · Apr 27, 2016

Love me some of this. One of my favorite

choff · Apr 28, 2016

Mine was from BC

zoomonster · Apr 28, 2016

rovster said:
I thought the original was a Tyree piece, actually pretty sure it is. Mine came from BC as well.

Yep think your right. Thought it was JF but its Tyree.

JFrar · Apr 28, 2016

bubbaque said:
I was very close to buying a frag at RAP but someone there told me most colonies are dying of the pink lemonade. I wish I would of bought a frag, I love the look.

I purchased a pink lemonade at RAP

polyps are starting to come out a lot more than when i first put in my tank.

I'll have to be strategic in where i place this guy.... I have a red planet 1 inch frag that encrusted about 3 square inches BUT now it is shooting up very fast like someone else mentioned u can see growth almost daily

bubbaque · Apr 28, 2016

I regret not buying a frag. I will get one next time I'm at my LFS.

happyhourhero · Apr 29, 2016

Here is mine. Slowly plugging along.

themcnertney · Apr 29, 2016

I think lighting and flow are the reasons that the coral will encrust and/or shoot branches.

coralseas · Apr 30, 2016

Here's mine. Had it for about two months. It has just colored up a little, polyps got a little longer, the base has got a little thicker but no real growth.

CastAway · Jul 11, 2016

Now seeing some vertical growth! Yea.

Jimbo · Jul 11, 2016

Nice. Did you end up reducing the flow at all?

MontiFanatic402 · Jul 11, 2016

My pink lemonade has been encrusting for the last 8 months, but it sure has colored up nice

CastAway · Jul 11, 2016

Jimbo said:
Nice. Did you end up reducing the flow at all?

Nope. For the sake of the rest of the tank, and overall nutrient export, I couldn't really do that. I attribute the growth to time.

I have been fragging and discarding an adjacent bird nest colony, slowly but surely, and expect that flow near the colony may have likewise been affected.