Strawberry Shortcake Acropora

Troylee · Jul 15, 2011

Got me a extreme shortcake the other day I will get a picture soon.... First shot with this one and I have a mini colony of the og coming next week... That will be fourth shot at it....:sad:

FaviaFreak · Jul 15, 2011

they can be tricky I think the best approach is to fast drip them for a bit and than add them to QT or the display, our store had a lot of success with the SS doing it this way, prior to this method we had a lot of them RTN/STN on us

Troylee · Jul 15, 2011

Never had a problem until 3months to a year later.... :cry:

SteezySPS · Jul 15, 2011

tl, looking forward to seeing an "extreme" shortcake. Most of the ones i have seen look like microlados with the flat yellow and pink/red color

Troylee · Jul 15, 2011

Nah this has actually the deep rich color.... It's not fully colored up yet it's the way I got it but given time I can tell it's gonna shine for sure...

SteezySPS · Jul 15, 2011

did you get it online? If so where?

Redstag · Jul 16, 2011

My short case.

Redstag · Jul 16, 2011

My ShAdE Of Fall.

Troylee · Jul 16, 2011

Man your sof almost looks like tubbs pink jade... Nice pieces tony..

Stpatrick · Jul 16, 2011

Srawberry Shortcake

This was sold to me as a Strawberry Shortcake. What do you all think it is?

Troylee · Jul 16, 2011

It's real and how they normally look when they come in.... That's one reason why this particular acro is such a hot ticket item... In captivity they color up extremely well and look ridiclious...1smile1

Henry C · Jul 16, 2011

I've had a frag for about 3 mos. now and it's just a cream color with pink polyps. It's at the top of my rock stack and has been a steady grower but no green at all. Do you guys think I should try moving it or let it go to see what happens? I'm running leds...Thanks..

FaviaFreak · Jul 16, 2011

This is a true Strawberry Shortcake, these pictures are from Unique Corals original mother colony, they named it and were the first to distribute the SS at MACNA 09', this is a good representation of how it should look

gar732 · Jul 16, 2011

Henry C said:
I've had a frag for about 3 mos. now and it's just a cream color with pink polyps. It's at the top of my rock stack and has been a steady grower but no green at all. Do you guys think I should try moving it or let it go to see what happens? I'm running leds...Thanks..

I'd think it's getting too much light. Try moving it down and see what happens. I have mine in my frag tank under LEDs but they are turned down quite a bit and the green is starting to come out nicely now.

Henry C · Jul 16, 2011

gar732 said:
I'd think it's getting too much light. Try moving it down and see what happens. I have mine in my frag tank under LEDs but they are turned down quite a bit and the green is starting to come out nicely now.

Thanks man....i'll try that and see what happens..

Troylee · Jul 16, 2011

Yeah I never had luck up high... Mine was always happiest in the bottom half of the tank...

FaviaFreak · Jul 16, 2011

gar732 said:
I'd think it's getting too much light. Try moving it down and see what happens. I have mine in my frag tank under LEDs but they are turned down quite a bit and the green is starting to come out nicely now.

Troylee said:
Yeah I never had luck up high... Mine was always happiest in the bottom half of the tank...

I agree, this also happens wit the ORA Red Planet, too much light and it losses the green coloration

Henry C · Jul 16, 2011

moved it (ended up with 2 pieces) to about 8 in from the bottom of the tank..Keeping my fingers crossed..lol

Troylee · Jul 16, 2011

Should do great around there with med to high flow...

SteezySPS · Jul 16, 2011

FaviaFreak said:
This is a true Strawberry Shortcake, these pictures are from Unique Corals original mother colony, they named it and were the first to distribute the SS at MACNA 09', this is a good representation of how it should look

Thanks for the pic. I definitely have the same one as this and the red is super bright under daylights.