R.M. rainbow nasuta(original)- any pics?

Holy_makerel · Oct 5, 2017

Picked a frag if this up months ago and it was totally browned out. Pretty much a set it and forget it for a while.

It has finally started encrusting and coloring up to this beautiful pale emerald green different than any other green in the tank. Really looking forward to it growing and showing more color.

Pic is from a month or so ago. It has continued to green up and has fully encrusted the top and started down the sides of the plug. I'll get a current shot tonight.

Anyway, does anyone have a grown out colony of this? I'd love to see some pics.

Daniel@R2R · Oct 10, 2017

Good looking coral! I don't have one, but here's a free bump in hopes someone else might be able to show off a colony.

jda · Oct 10, 2017

I have a colony. I will try get some photos of it.

When people come over, they usually want this one more than any other designer JF or RR acro. It is an amazing old-school acro that is really beautiful under Metal Halide with all kinds of subtle colors.

Holy_makerel · Oct 10, 2017

jda said:
I have a colony. I will try get some photos of it.

When people come over, they usually want this one more than any other designer JF or RR acro. It is an amazing old-school acro that is really beautiful under Metal Halide with all kinds of subtle colors.

I'd love to see it!

Holy_makerel · Oct 10, 2017

mdbannister said:
Good looking coral! I don't have one, but here's a free bump in hopes someone else might be able to show off a colony.

Thanks for the bump!

jda · Oct 10, 2017

I am a horrible photo taker, but I tried for ya. This one is more sky blue with red polyps than what this photo is showing. When a bit larger, the tips get bright blue on the flat surface, with purple right behind them - you can kind of see this start to develop. It will also get a green base in the middle when it gets larger and into the shadows more. It is am amazing piece when colony sized which looks quite a bit different than a frag.

This is a snippet that I saved from a well-known reefer on RC on why he dropped his Gen 4 Radions and went back to 20K Radiums. I share his sentiment that this coral is too green under LEDs from what I have seen - I surely have not seen them all, but the LED folks who have gotten frags of this echo these sentiments. His post was about subtle differences under different kinds of lights and this coral is 100% about subtlety.

The other coral with significant change is my "rainbow" granulosa...it had a green base, changing to a sky blue towards the tips with a purple tip face. Its turned largely green. Lost the sky blue colour completely. I'd adjust the spectrum and measured the PAR levels but couldnt get the sky blue colour back.

Holy_makerel · Oct 11, 2017

jda said:
I am a horrible photo taker, but I tried for ya. This one is more sky blue with red polyps than what this photo is showing. When a bit larger, the tips get bright blue on the flat surface, with purple right behind them - you can kind of see this start to develop. It will also get a green base in the middle when it gets larger and into the shadows more. It is am amazing piece when colony sized which looks quite a bit different than a frag.

This is a snippet that I saved from a well-known reefer on RC on why he dropped his Gen 4 Radions and went back to 20K Radiums. I share his sentiment that this coral is too green under LEDs from what I have seen - I surely have not seen them all, but the LED folks who have gotten frags of this echo these sentiments. His post was about subtle differences under different kinds of lights and this coral is 100% about subtlety.

Thank you! Really beautiful piece!