tdf the real McCoy

whixley101 · Oct 21, 2013

Nuocmam said:
Sold to me as TDF by a local reefer. Whatcha think? I have this in high light and it maintains the green. I've been hesitant about calling it a TDF cuz there's been so many different pics.

I looks like the Original ORA Red Planet and a really nice piece at that.

Nuocmam · Oct 21, 2013

buddythelion said:
If you didn't tell me it was a TDF I would have thought it was a Red Planet.

And this is why there's so many TDF out there. No doubt branch/coralite structure is different from Red Planet but you can't tell unless its a colony. Here's my Red Planet.

Reefltx · Oct 21, 2013

Looks like a red planet to me too. I couldn't tell the difference beside the color, possible they are the same sp.

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Nuocmam · Oct 21, 2013

Figured as much.

kacrocorals581 · Oct 21, 2013

Nuocmam said:
Sold to me as TDF by a local reefer. Whatcha think? I have this in high light and it maintains the green. I've been hesitant about calling it a TDF cuz there's been so many different pics.

that looks like a red planet to me bud

Lacktaters · Oct 21, 2013

I picked up mine from roktsintst. If he's reading (doubt it he's out of the hobby) maybe he can chime in as to the origin of the colony. By the time I heard he was breaking down, he had already fragged up and sold the entire colony. I bought the remaining encrustment. Until very recently it's pretty much just continued to encrust. Mine has a lot of the green color in the base like nuocmam's...maybe slightly more of a yellowish green though.

Nuocmam · Oct 21, 2013

kacrocorals581 said:
that looks like a red planet to me bud

I'm positive it's not a Red Planet. I have Red Planet. It's also keeping the deep green under intense light. Prolly not a TDF though.

Lacktaters · Oct 21, 2013

Forgot to add that mine is getting absolutely pounded with light. It's less than six inches under the surface of the water.

kacrocorals581 · Oct 21, 2013

Lacktaters said:
I picked up mine from roktsintst. If he's reading (doubt it he's out of the hobby) maybe he can chime in as to the origin of the colony. By the time I heard he was breaking down, he had already fragged up and sold the entire colony. I bought the remaining encrustment. Until very recently it's pretty much just continued to encrust. Mine has a lot of the green color in the base like nuocmam's...maybe slightly more of a yellowish green though.

http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb437/Lacktaters/
TierraDelFuegoEncrustment_zpsd9d52bbe.jpg[/
IMG][/QUOTE] looks like a pink tenius I had the coralite structure looks like a tenius also. But what ever that's is its beautiful!

bct15 · Oct 21, 2013

Lacktaters said:
I picked up mine from roktsintst. If he's reading (doubt it he's out of the hobby) maybe he can chime in as to the origin of the colony. By the time I heard he was breaking down, he had already fragged up and sold the entire colony. I bought the remaining encrustment. Until very recently it's pretty much just continued to encrust. Mine has a lot of the green color in the base like nuocmam's...maybe slightly more of a yellowish green though.

That looks like tdf to me, the tdf bases a lot like that. Its not a tenuis.

kacrocorals581 · Oct 22, 2013

Wet thumbs Tdf doesn't have long dished out corillite structure like that it looks like the Angeline acropora witch also came from wet thumbs

kacrocorals581 · Oct 22, 2013

1st wet thumbs Angeline acro
2nd wet thumbs terrea del fuego

kacrocorals581 · Oct 22, 2013

kacrocorals581 said:
1st wet thumbs Angeline acro
2nd wet thumbs terrea del fuego

sry first is tdf second Angeline acropora

bct15 · Oct 22, 2013

kacrocorals581 said:
Wet thumbs Tdf doesn't have long dished out corillite structure like that it looks like the Angeline acropora witch also came from wet thumbs

I know what the what the heck TDF looks like but thanks for posting the pic again, I bought a frag a couple years ago from them and lost it last fall or maybe the fall before that when my tank crashed (memory isn't what it used to be and can't remember which year my tank crashed). Your looking at basically quarter inch branches coming off of a base in that picture, it is impossible to say what it is or isnt...but the several pieces I had cut all grew out like that from the base.

K_red_raider · Oct 22, 2013

I have one from JF and will try to get a good pic of it when the lights come on tomorrow

kacrocorals581 · Oct 22, 2013

Well tdf or tenius is beautiful and I agree with you tdf bases like that's but so did the angeline and its hard to tell with branches so small but all the times I've fraged mine its never had a a dished out coralite structure like that

Big E · Oct 22, 2013

This has been debated before.............I love the pics from Windy City---post 53. That piece and Alicia's look like the same coral.

The radial coralites are rounded and it has that beautiful color pattern.

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/general-sps-discussion/98451-tierra-del-fuego-3.html

FaviaFreak · Oct 22, 2013

Manhattan Aquariums use to sell the mini colonies of these by the droves before the name got placed on them and everybody had to have it lol..

Lacktaters · Oct 22, 2013

Many of these differences can be a result of tank conditions...no? The coralites were not so "cupped" on the piece when I bought it. Again it was had to tell because it was basically the encrustment.

Here's a link to the exact piece I got minus the 1/2" branches that were already gone. Not the best picture...

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/selling-forum-livestock/91421-lots-sick-sps.html

Lacktaters · Oct 22, 2013

Here's a frag that I cut off mine for a friend. His picture (not mine) after he had it for a while. Again, this looks different than it does in my tank. He's getting more of the green in the base and his coralites don't look so cupped out.