The devil of all acro?

[Bacon505]

Any reef master who own this devil in their tank successfully? I search the web with so little information about this acro, abrotanoides same family tree with robusta. If you an owner of one, share your success with photo, placement pix of the acro. This guys is notoriously tricket to keep and impossible to color. i owned 3 colony of this specie for almost two years that barely show a hint of green. Mine sit under 700 par with medium flow and still couldnt get it to color

 

[tunedtank]

I have a colony but I must admit I have only had it for about 6 weeks...the color isn't the best with this one but is living and getting more and more colored up as it goes...polyps are out and is seemingly healthy....I think form follows function with this guy and with him being such a stocky well built acro I imagine he loves flow. My colony is about 8 inches away and 4 inches down from a jebao rw20 on full power so he gets tons of flow and I really think thats the trick. And I mean more flow than most reefers would even consider in there tanks...in this pic it is to the top left of the furthest right colony...hope this helps

 

[Bacon505]

Are you running metal helide?

 

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One of my all time favorites. took about 5 years before i really saw proper coloration

heres a thread about it as well
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bleeding-tree-bleeding-tree-please-take-me-away.301774/

 

[luke33]

One of my all time favorites. took about 5 years before i really saw proper coloration

heres a thread about it as well
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bleeding-tree-bleeding-tree-please-take-me-away.301774/

Thats what I really like about sps, if you put in the time you'll reap the rewards! I love it when I don't give up on a sps and a year or two later it turns into a swan. Nice job, 5yrs is an investment.

 

[tunedtank]

Yes on that system there is about 100w of blue led and a 400w radium on pfo ballast

 

[agent462]

I had a fairly large colony that I had for about 6 years. I lost it earlier this year actually. In general it loved light just like other SPS and always held color solid for me. I'd recommend getting a piece from Adam@BattleCorals because his is proven to be acclimated to tank life. My original one came from Ian Borchert. I have a colony in a friends tank of mine that I'll eventually get a frag back.

They are beautiful corals.

I do not like this picture but it's from Jan 2014

Older Pictures

 

[kennedpa]

I have a frag from @FraghouseCorals growing out. I'll get a pic tomorrow. It's laying down base now and doing well. It's a new grow out system and this piece made it through hell while most of my high end stuff threw in the towel.

 

[kennedpa]

Here's my baby piece. Laying down a nice base quick. Had it for a month, minimal encrusting to start.

 

[Bacon505]

I had a fairly large colony that I had for about 6 years. I lost it earlier this year actually. In general it loved light just like other SPS and always held color solid for me. I'd recommend getting a piece from Adam@BattleCorals because his is proven to be acclimated to tank life. My original one came from Ian Borchert. I have a colony in a friends tank of mine that I'll eventually get a frag back.

They are beautiful corals.

I do not like this picture but it's from Jan 2014

Older Pictures

Very nice piece, look like a robusta than an abrotanoides. The. Branch looks thin

 

[Bacon505]

One of my colony that i had as a small eild piece. Never color up no matter now much light i blast at it.

 

[kennedpa]

Very nice piece, look like a robusta than an abrotanoides. The. Branch looks thin

Time will tell, thanks for the input.

 

[spsfrag]

I had a fairly large colony that I had for about 6 years. I lost it earlier this year actually. In general it loved light just like other SPS and always held color solid for me. I'd recommend getting a piece from Adam@BattleCorals because his is proven to be acclimated to tank life. My original one came from Ian Borchert. I have a colony in a friends tank of mine that I'll eventually get a frag back.

They are beautiful corals.

I do not like this picture but it's from Jan 2014

Older Pictures

 

[spsfrag]

I have a large colony have had it for a few years. Grows pretty well. Probably 20" acr

 

[spsfrag]

This is it about 3 years ago it has more than doubled in size

 

[evolved]

It's as simple as FLOW, FLOW, and FLOW. Oh, and BLASTED with light.

There's a great colony in the Long Island tank. It sits directly and unobstructed in the path of a surge tank dump, and is right under a 1000W MH.

 

[evolved]

Here's a not-so-great view of that colony; It's near the top center of the photo with an anthias in front of it.