Red planet rumor, is it true?

[srad750c]

Here's mine, top of tank with Kessil A360WE, used to have a lot of green but no more. I think it changed when I changed amino acid brand. My polyps are out at all times.

 

[Wiz]

Here's mine, top of tank with Kessil A360WE, used to have a lot of green but no more. I think it changed when I changed amino acid brand. My polyps are out at all times.

How high above the water is your kessle and what percentage?

 

[srad750c]

It’s 7 inches above water, base of RP is 7 inches deep. Max color is 40% and max intensity is 70% for 3 hours midday, I ramp up and down from there 11 hr cycle.

 

[acropora4u]

Mine just plates and is deep pink with a green outer

 

[Wiz]

Wierd with no spires.

 

[kamikazereefer]

Mine red pink and have little to no green he is almost st the bottom of the tank

Polyoes are out all the time and can be long too

 

[srad750c]

my red planets ....

What is this SPS coral, what light combo?

 

[FMF0331]

SRAD750C - - - - -
I have no idea what that frag is, i saw that it had potential.

 

[srad750c]

SRAD750C - - - - -
I have no idea what that frag is, i saw that it had potential.

Nice, I got something that looks like that Sunday and they couldn’t tell me what it was. I don’t understand how you can sell it and don’t know what it is

 

[Sallstrom]

Just out of curiosity, what is the scientific name of Red Planet Acropora?

/ David

 

[AdamNC]

Just out of curiosity, what is the scientific name of Red Planet Acropora?

/ David

Everyone lists it as just Acropora sp.

 

[jda]

I would guess A. Mirabilis. Others have opined A. Hyacinthus before as well.

 

[srad750c]

Just out of curiosity, what is the scientific name of Red Planet Acropora?

/ David

I wonder why no one uses scientific names anymore? It would be nice, or am I asking too much. It surely makes life easier when you're trying to identify your corals. Or is it to simply keep you from knowing that you're just buying more expensive colors morphs of the same corals?

 

[jda]

First, they are very hard to identify. Second, the people who know and care usually have a rough idea already. Third, a shop/fragger/farmer can give it a cool name, oversaturate the photos and sell a fewer higher priced frags to the front-running mostly noobie crowd who would not know what to do with the scientific name anyway... and then sell more reasonably priced frags to the people who will have a general idea about the type later on.

People wanting scientific names are usually the same crowd that wants to see photos under daylight... they know their stuff and have a sense for when a coral is misrepresented. These folks will not buy a brown/green hairy tenius for $500 called Walt Disney since they know what it is really like. ...or more to the point, a bright red saturated Mirabilis called "Red Nose Reindeer" since they know that it is probably really close to red planet... but somebody who is new to the hobby might fall for this.

In the case of ORA, who is legit and not trying to trick people... they probably are not 100% sure or else they usually will put the species name at least on their website.

 

[FLAdaboy]

The base of mine is green and the branches are red. Not sure about lighting entirely due to there only being an inch of difference. You really can’t say that it’s new growth either. It’s the beauty of the hobby for sure.

 

[SchnitzelReef]

This is a healthy red planet getting blasted by some T5s. When I ran Radions, the green was everywhere. Looked really nice, only problem is it wouldn’t grow.

 

[Sallstrom]

I wonder why no one uses scientific names anymore? It would be nice, or am I asking too much. It surely makes life easier when you're trying to identify your corals. Or is it to simply keep you from knowing that you're just buying more expensive colors morphs of the same corals?

I agree with jda, ID Acropora is not always that easy. I'm trying to ID all ours at work and I think I have okey guesses on half of them..
Theses popular name are so common nowadays and I sometimes feel stupid when I have no idea what corals people talk about even though I've been around for some years now
So thanks for the scientific names, now I can look them up for my self.

/ David

 

[ncaldwell]

I've used red planet as a led canary. Got the light to where I liked it visually then tuned my lights to where the red planet was mostly red with a little green on the base.

 

[Ghxst]

Just remember: King Philip Came Over For Good Spaghetti. Usually the Good Spaghetti is what you’ll see things labeled as because the rest covers saying it’s a coral. Genus is easier to ID by eye, like duh it’s an acropora. Species is going to take a lot of certainty and is subject to change with a DNA test these days, lol. If you do make and ID list please share.

 

[Wiz]

This is a healthy red planet getting blasted by some T5s. When I ran Radions, the green was everywhere. Looked really nice, only problem is it wouldn’t grow.

So you got green with higher lighting???