SPS I picked up from petco. id

Mstanker · Jan 20, 2015

One I just picked up last night. Will those polyps get bigger

joekool · Jan 20, 2015

No the polyps won't get any bigger they may extend a little more. Looks like wrath of grapes but it is missing base color of purple. It will take some good fish poo before the color comes back. Red Sea reef colors will help or phoyls extra will help color. But the easiest is to feed your fish a good food and let them poop. Basically SPS need a little nitrate but not to much. I haven't checked out your tank so I don't now how many fish you have.

So anyways looks like the wrath of grapes SPS I got from your reef.
Just name it what you want.

Mstanker · Jan 21, 2015

i have like 7 or 8 fish in a 40gb. i just got it so maybe it will turn around since my other sps blue acro has great extended polyps

Frick · Jan 21, 2015

Is that an ORA frag plug it's on? If it is that should narrow your search.

Rob Top1 · Jan 21, 2015

Frick said:
Is that an ORA frag plug it's on? If it is that should narrow your search.

It sure does look like an ORA plug, but ORA in a PetCo? I must have missed the cross breeding of pigs and crows.
Or did the pig just drink a Redbull.
Sweet score though

revhtree · Jan 21, 2015

Very cool. How much did it cost?

VelasCorals · Jan 21, 2015

Looks like ORA "Joe the coral"

Mstanker · Jan 21, 2015

I got it for around 25$. i just hope that i makes it!!!

Mstanker · Jan 21, 2015

So are you all saying that this coral is a good type of coral?

ermartin · Jan 21, 2015

looks like a good find. I have seen ORA frags at 1 of my local petco's but they all looked like crap as the lighting is just standard fish lighting ... this one looks good and cant wait to see pictures when it color's up

Mstanker · Jan 21, 2015

ya my REDSEA a & b and reef chilii should come in tomorrow so maybe that will help all my corals

hart24601 · Jan 21, 2015

The petco here gets in ORA stuff quite a bit along with other nice aquaculture companies. You just have to get them quick before the petco system kills them.

Mstanker · Jan 22, 2015

ya, i think the coral was there for only a few days. Last night it had good polyps ext.

jedimasterben · Jan 22, 2015

Rob Top1 said:
It sure does look like an ORA plug, but ORA in a PetCo? I must have missed the cross breeding of pigs and crows.

ORA is one of the largest suppliers to Petco for corals and fish. Petco is shifting towards purchasing aquacultured livestock as much as they are able to.

declanisadog · Jan 22, 2015

jedimasterben said:
ORA is one of the largest suppliers to Petco for corals and fish. Petco is shifting towards purchasing aquacultured livestock as much as they are able to.

That'a good on them. Now if only they can figure out how to keep them alive...

discoreefer · Jan 22, 2015

All my petco has is upside down floating fish. At least they have a large variety of them.

declanisadog · Jan 22, 2015

discoreefer said:
All my petco has is upside down floating fish. At least they have a large variety of them.

Pretty typical. There is one by my house that has some pretty decent frags on occasion, and they actually keep them in a separate system under T5's. They still don't last very long though because the staff is clueless.