ProCoral's Rainbow Acro

[dankreef]

I'll try and get a shot this week... I have about a 4" colony baking under a 400 wt radium halide. I have frags of it all over the tank and you do have to move it around to find that sweet spot. The colony is mostly red/pink with a hint of orange. Frags in lower light are orangeish with a blue encrusting base. In ideal light you should see pink/red/orange with the blue encrusting growth ring. I think it grows fastest under high flow and light though...

Awesome way to find out where stuff looks the best. I often make small frags of my favorite stuff and move them around too and see how they look in different places. And you can have a nice encrusted frag to sell later. win/win!

 

[CUNAReefer]

I could not agree more Dankreef! I have all new T5 Bulbs that I have ready for my change at the end of the month. You can tell I need new Actinics by how dim the light is in my pic. I'll get that blue growth edge rocking again with some new bulbs!

 

[dankreef]

You know I have to ask what combo now? I'm running 8x80 2 actinic, 4 blue+, 2 coral+ and its beautiful. I have tried almost every combo except the aqua blue special bulbs. That combo looks amazing.

 

[CUNAReefer]

You know I have to ask what combo now? I'm running 8x80 2 actinic, 4 blue+, 2 coral+ and its beautiful. I have tried almost every combo except the aqua blue special bulbs. That combo looks amazing.

8x80 on an ATI Sunpower (2 ATI Actinic, 3 Aqua Blue, 2 Geisseman Mid Day, 1 ATI Blue Plus). I like the growth of the Mid Day, but its soooo yellow!

 

[dankreef]

Not sure on the Geisseman never tried them. My bulbs are like 14' off the water and I still get 300-350par mid tank 24' tall tank. Yellow is yuck! The blue + gives off more par I think and its a sky blue.

 

[JasonKlink]

I'll try and get a shot this week... I have about a 4" colony baking under a 400 wt radium halide. I have frags of it all over the tank and you do have to move it around to find that sweet spot. The colony is mostly red/pink with a hint of orange. Frags in lower light are orangeish with a blue encrusting base. In ideal light you should see pink/red/orange with the blue encrusting growth ring. I think it grows fastest under high flow and light though...

Can't wait to see it!

 

[Zack]

Yep, i wanna see the colony brett!

 

[WnYreefer]

Here is a few shots of mine. When I first got it about a year ago it had the red and orange on it. It had a slight tank crash and some recession and now I have this. I had it directly under a fishneedit 150 watt metal halide but I recently upgraded to a 150 watt cayman sun. After reading this thread I moved the one on the plug over so it's not directly under the light. Hopefully more color will show up. Any other ideas? Thanks

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[souk]

They all look very nice, looking to get a frag too

 

[bmac16]

2 ATI Actinic. I ran downstairs to take a pic for this thread

Do you run just t5?

Edit: nvm, sorry just read the rest of the page

 

[FaviaFreak]

Up until a couple days ago, the center of my tank was receiving PAR of 520. If I were to make a educated guess, I would say that the Rainbow is receiving PAR of about 430. Here are a couple older day light shots of other colonies.

dude i love the idea of the frag racks to grow out your acros, it should look very cool all grown in

 

[ReefHero]

dude i love the idea of the frag racks to grow out your acros, it should look very cool all grown in

I know eh!! Very clever CUNAReefer!! Do you have any LR at all??


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[LILBUDDHA]

I was advised to give it more light . Move it up . His is getting the blue in it at the bottom now .

My frag n advise came from this .Before the blue came in it .





The frag I got from him .

 

[CUNAReefer]

http://s136.photobucket.com/user/CUNAReefer/media/003-9_zpse962d9d3.jpg.html

dude i love the idea of the frag racks to grow out your acros, it should look very cool all grown in

Thank you very much, FaviaFreak! I took some new pics for you below.

I know eh!! Very clever CUNAReefer!! Do you have any LR at all??


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Hi Ben - I have only one piece of LR in my entire set up. I'd say it weighs less than 10 pounds. I only added it to serve as shelter for my fish at night. I'll get you over here to see the tank in person one of these days James (Sorry for the bad formatting... My return button doesn't work when I use my HP pavilion to post on R2R)

 

[buddythelion]

Thank you very much, FaviaFreak! I took some new pics for you below.

Hi Ben - I have only one piece of LR in my entire set up. I'd say it weighs less than 10 pounds. I only added it to serve as shelter for my fish at night. I'll get you over here to see the tank in person one of these days James (Sorry for the bad formatting... My return button doesn't work when I use my HP pavilion to post on R2R)

Gorgeous man! I can't wait until my piece grow into that.