Unique Acro

ReefHero · Feb 5, 2015

Aquanut
This WD Acro looks extremely similar to the RR Orange Passion.....perhaps a little more pink hues in your pics..... But other than that pretty much exact same colours and coral structure..... Even the polyps look identical.... Still very sweet looking dude but thought I'd mention the similarities.....

akma · Feb 5, 2015

Saw a frag of this last night in my friends tank. Such a sick piece.

snipertwobe · Feb 6, 2015

sick corals. i'm in connecticut how far are you from me yes i have led's and 250w halides in the basement. thinking about throwing them back on to try this coral.

angelsbeamer · Feb 9, 2015

Where can I get my hands on a frag? Thanks

snipertwobe · Feb 9, 2015

i am at the back of the line... so i guess behind me..lol .i think he has a list going

angelsbeamer · Feb 10, 2015

I'm on a list with a guy out of Florida and from the looks of it it will be two years. Lol

tonymission · Feb 10, 2015

ReefHero said:
Aquanut
This WD Acro looks extremely similar to the RR Orange Passion.....perhaps a little more pink hues in your pics..... But other than that pretty much exact same colours and coral structure..... Even the polyps look identical.... Still very sweet looking dude but thought I'd mention the similarities.....

They're both tenuis. Can't wait to get my WD frag tomorrow.

jackson6745 · Feb 10, 2015

Guys I started this thread to log the progress from a frag, not to make money selling a coral. This coral has grown quite large because I haven't fragged it much. I will sell frags of this coral and others in my tank like I normally would when my colonies grow too large, but keep in mind this isn't a f/s thread. I will respond to pm's and try my best to accommodate

Keep in mind that no one has been able to keep color under any lighting other than 250w and 400w radium as of yet. Hopefully that changes.

Anyway

After seeing that WD tenuis it motivated me to try a blue LED pic. I have no idea how he gets the images to come out so awesome. Here's the best I could get under a blue reefbrite. I kind of believe that these corals may be the same, just images captured differently. I eventually have to trade frag with Aquanut to see the difference

led pic by rich.colombo, on Flickr

jackson6745 · Feb 10, 2015

I prefer it under a 400w radium

under radium by rich.colombo, on Flickr

declanisadog · Feb 10, 2015

jackson6745 said:
I prefer it under a 400w radium
under radium by rich.colombo, on Flickr

+1, however, the orange really comes out in the blue pic

kingator · Feb 10, 2015

sick man ...... love it

BetURWrasse · Feb 10, 2015

Great looking stuff guys, I too would love to be added to this long list. There has to be a few people out there growing this out now. Judging from a certain auction I am watching this thing is in very high demand.

tonymission · Feb 10, 2015

Rsaalman said:
Great looking stuff guys, I too would love to be added to this long list. There has to be a few people out there growing this out now. Judging from a certain auction I am watching this thing is in very high demand.

What auction is that?

cee · Feb 10, 2015

Wow, seen a lot of across and that's pretty special, esp. since it has no name!

jackson6745 · Feb 10, 2015

There is no action for this piece. Maybe for aquanauts piece.

BetURWrasse · Feb 10, 2015

jackson6745 said:
There is no action for this piece. Maybe for aquanauts piece.

Sorry got confused on the two pieces on the last couple of pages and just made a general coment. Needless to say yours is a very cool coral, I would love to have a small piece in my DT.

BetURWrasse · Feb 10, 2015

tonymission said:
What auction is that?

The one at a crazy high price on FB!!! Maybe you can put me on a list for later down the road on your grow out of WD.

Aquanaut · Feb 11, 2015

Rasengan said:
wow that's beautiful aquanaut!

Thank you! Took two years to get this color. Good things dont happen over night in this hobby.

jackson6745 said:
Aquanaut what light are you growing yours under? Do you have a pic with T5 or halide over it? Those pics with the but LED look insane man!

Jackson, I have a 265 display which holds the WD mother colony. Running 100% LEDs. In addition, I have a 80g deep blue frag tank with an ATI 6 bulb and 24 Cree Royal Blue Leds running on two 1050ma drivers plummed into the same system. The recent pics are Wds grown under mainly T-5 with the Cree RB leds as supplement. I can tell you the lighting does change the color a bit. The T-5 adds a more distinct pink hue.

ReefHero said:
@Aquanut
This WD Acro looks extremely similar to the RR Orange Passion.....perhaps a little more pink hues in your pics..... But other than that pretty much exact same colours and coral structure..... Even the polyps look identical.... Still very sweet looking dude but thought I'd mention the similarities.....

This coral generates green PE out the tips and yellow out of the coralites. Not the same. I have SC Orange Passion and they are different.

akma said:
Saw a frag of this last night in my friends tank. Such a sick piece.

Nice!

angelsbeamer said:
Where can I get my hands on a frag? Thanks

The demand is overwhelming

tonymission said:
They're both tenuis. Can't wait to get my WD frag tomorrow.

Enjoy.

jackson6745 said:
Guys I started this thread to log the progress from a frag, not to make money selling a coral. This coral has grown quite large because I haven't fragged it much. I will sell frags of this coral and others in my tank like I normally would when my colonies grow too large, but keep in mind this isn't a f/s thread. I will respond to pm's and try my best to accommodate Keep in mind that no one has been able to keep color under any lighting other than 250w and 400w radium as of yet. Hopefully that changes.

Anyway After seeing that WD tenuis it motivated me to try a blue LED pic. I have no idea how he gets the images to come out so awesome. Here's the best I could get under a blue reefbrite. I kind of believe that these corals may be the same, just images captured differently. I eventually have to trade frag with Aquanut to see the difference

led pic by rich.colombo, on Flickr

+1 This is not a FS thread.

Nice pic Jackson. I use a T2i DSLR mainly with porthole and also have a canon underwater camera.

I still want a frag of yours jackson. Great job coloring it up.

Rsaalman said:
Great looking stuff guys, I too would love to be added to this long list. There has to be a few people out there growing this out now. Judging from a certain auction I am watching this thing is in very high demand.

No more lists. Too much demand at the moment. Thx

Jay6363 · May 2, 2015

Jackson it continues to blow me away!!! What's ur photoperiod? And you keep it in the top third of the aquarium? Thanks!

jackson6745 · May 2, 2015

Jay6363 said:
Jackson it continues to blow me away!!! What's ur photoperiod? And you keep it in the top third of the aquarium? Thanks!

Thanks. Photoperiod is 7 hrs MH, and 10hrs T5, Blue LED 12hrs. I lowered this colony down to give it more growth room. It's currently getting 500 PAR directly under the halide.