Rainbow millepora?!

[Christopher Davis]

Hello reef2reef members! Saturday I am picking up what is supposed to be a rainbow millepora! This is my first time trying this coral as I am putting it under a kessil tuna blue a 160, in my cube build. I am getting it from a local guy off of Craigslist. Can you help me out by identifying that this is actually what I am buying. And or what I should be looking for or lookout for with this coral. Like I said this is my first time picking this kind of specimen up so I want to make sure it's going to be healthy.

To me it looks a little bit under colored, is there a way to bring back it's color quicker other than nutrients.
Sidenote, let's see your Millepora!

 

[Christopher Davis]

The frag is in the upper right.

 

[AcroNem]

I'm not entirely sold on the Rainbow part, but that is indeed A. millepora.

 

[Christopher Davis]

I'm not entirely sold on the Rainbow part, but that is indeed A. millepora.

kinda what I was thinking as well... but for 15$ meh lol he said he has switched lighting and it was under LED before.

 

[AcroNem]

For 15 I wouldn't really care it look plenty good enough for that. Odds are you can get more colors out of it too.

 

[Christopher Davis]

For 15 I wouldn't really care it look plenty good enough for that. Odds are you can get more colors out of it too.

he mentioned that under his LED it had lots of pink and green... So maybe not rainbow?

 

[Salty1962]

I'd buy it for $15

 

[Christopher Davis]

Okay so I've got the coral thoughts?

 

[Christopher Davis]

More shots

 

[Salty1962]

A little early to know for sure. Let it acclimate to your system and see what colors come from it. It's a nice frag what ever it turns out to be!

 

[AcroNem]

For $15 I like it. Colors should come in nicely.

 

[Christopher Davis]

Almost all pink with hints of purplish green with white polyps as of right now!

 

[luke33]

Nice for $15! I think there are 5,435,235 rainbow sps out there now

Keep it happy and you'll more than likely get some nice colors

 

[Christopher Davis]

Still waiting to see what happens with this frag!

 

[Christopher Davis]

Okay guys I think it's safe to say it's acclimated to my system quite nicely!!! What are your thoughts now?! I'm seeing lots of green coming through at all the tips and base with pink/ almost purple?

 

[Christopher Davis]

Bump bump

 

[CoralWealth]

Bump bump

good growth and some insane PE, hard to tell the colors from that picture.

 

[gioNVA]

Good growth and polyp extension. Hard to tell the colors but my milleporas love more intense lighting so you can probably move it up more.

 

[Christopher Davis]

Good growth and polyp extension. Hard to tell the colors but my milleporas love more intense lighting so you can probably move it up more.

I will try and get better pics tonight! It’s got hot pink towards the most intense light, it’s got crazy PE.

 

[Christopher Davis]

More pics check out the growth!