show your ORA corals

Carolina Frags · Dec 7, 2007

Here is the ORA Dustin Deepwater Acro

gflat65 · Dec 7, 2007

I can easily see that, Anthony. Thanks for the idea on ID.

Leishman · Dec 7, 2007

ORA tort

143gadgets · Dec 7, 2007

Ex82nd said:
Here is the ORA Dustin Deepwater Acro

Awesome! Looks really nice!

143gadgets · Dec 7, 2007

Here is some ORA stuff for u.

surfn · Dec 8, 2007

Rickyrooz said:
Where did you buy the coral? Can you post a picture?

i got it from a LFS in richmond, who just recieved it from ORA yesterday.

i just put it in the tank tonight, and i'm going to be gone all day tomorrow.....prob wont get a pic of it until sunday.

143gadgets · Dec 9, 2007

Pic?

surfn said:
i got it from a LFS in richmond, who just recieved it from ORA yesterday.

i just put it in the tank tonight, and i'm going to be gone all day tomorrow.....prob wont get a pic of it until sunday.

surfn · Dec 9, 2007

143gadgets said:
Pic?

lol yeah, maybe in a couple of days hopefully. i'm having one of those "bad aquascaping days". nothing seems to be staying in place....lol

twon8 · Dec 10, 2007

i'll try and get a pic of mine, but the frag tank lights don't come on till 1

gflat65 · Dec 10, 2007

How are you guys holding color on the German Green Acro? I have two and they are both dirty yellow... The polyps have a neat stripe in them, but aren't blue by any stretch... I've had them under two different lighting set ups but no change...

surfn · Dec 10, 2007

my polyps are plenty blue......but the color has definiltely lightened up from what it used to be. wish it still had that dark green color.

BEFORE

AFTER

twon8 · Dec 10, 2007

mine are yellow, but i wouldn't call it dirty yellow. it has the blue polyps

revhtree · Dec 10, 2007

My lfs just got in a bunch of ora sps. I guess I need to get me some of these and start growing!

twon8 · Dec 10, 2007

here is mine. not as nice as the one at top of the page, but for what i paid, it's a steal...

surfn · Dec 10, 2007

ugh, i HATE those stupid ORA plugs....i messed up the bottom of my deepwater trying to get it off the plug. (mostly just damaged where it had encrusted over the edges, no damage to any branches or base luckily considering it landed about 5 feet away). but i imagine it will take a week or so before its picture worthy.

twon8 · Dec 10, 2007

surfn said:
ugh, i HATE those stupid ORA plugs....i messed up the bottom of my deepwater trying to get it off the plug. (mostly just damaged where it had encrusted over the edges, no damage to any branches or base luckily considering it landed about 5 feet away). but i imagine it will take a week or so before its picture worthy.

the only way to get them off the plug is to cut the plug with a dremel or pvc pipe cutters

surfn · Dec 10, 2007

twon8 said:
the only way to get them off the plug is to cut the plug with a dremel or pvc pipe cutters

one time i got lucky and cut the epoxy part with a pair of cutters, it lifted right off the plug (this was the ORA german blue polyp i believe).

i couldn't tell where the epoxy ended on the deepwater frag, and the plug began....so i got out the dremel and tried to cut it pretty close to the top.....the frag slipped in my hand and thus was launched across the room...lol

only damage was to the thin base around the edges which all cracked. no big deal though, i laid the frag down on a piece of rock so it can encrust again and have a larger base hopefully.

mounting it straight up looks dangerous....just imagine if it was 3 inches taller.....its a prime target for getting broken while cleaning the tank or doing anything that requires putting hands in the tank with a thin single branch at the base.

143gadgets · Dec 11, 2007

My German Blue Polyped Acro came in Yellow w/ blue polyps. I like it though, but wouldn't mind the green color either.

143gadgets · Dec 11, 2007

surfn said:
one time i got lucky and cut the epoxy part with a pair of cutters, it lifted right off the plug (this was the ORA german blue polyp i believe).

i couldn't tell where the epoxy ended on the deepwater frag, and the plug began....so i got out the dremel and tried to cut it pretty close to the top.....the frag slipped in my hand and thus was launched across the room...lol

only damage was to the thin base around the edges which all cracked. no big deal though, i laid the frag down on a piece of rock so it can encrust again and have a larger base hopefully.

mounting it straight up looks dangerous....just imagine if it was 3 inches taller.....its a prime target for getting broken while cleaning the tank or doing anything that requires putting hands in the tank with a thin single branch at the base.

Glad it didn't get damaged. I've destroyed a few colonies this way.

gflat65 · Dec 11, 2007

Mine has gone beyond surfn's... It doesn't have the color I'd like it to have. The polyps have a purplish tinge if you think hard enough about it... I may try it in a few different places. I've got the one I got from surfn and one I got from a LFS.

I gotta get a deepwater. A LFS got two in. They look nice. He's running only VHO's, too. There is a lokani in there I'm spying, too. He said it had to encrust to his LR before he'd break the frag plug off to sell it to me... It's been a while since I got a $100 frag (well, got a 1/4" piece of a monti a few months back for about that, but it didn't make it through the night...). I may have to wait and see what Santa brings...