Unique Acro

Lazys Coral House · Mar 17, 2014

You got something really special there!

Tankster101 · Mar 17, 2014

Very nice!!! Have you gotten a positive ID or name for It yet?

jackson6745 · Mar 17, 2014

Thanks lazylivin

Tankster no positive ID and no name. No one online or local to me has told me that they have seen this before. I will eventually call it some made up name I guess

larangcon · Mar 17, 2014

Wow!!! What a find, a diamond in the rough, definitely a beauty.

Tankster101 · Mar 17, 2014

Nice!!! You could make some $$$$ off that piece for sure being it's a one off, or at least very rare. Definitely keep up with you water changes LOL! Don't want to loose that bad boy!

Dowtish · Mar 18, 2014

Stunner!

Another reason why I love acros so much, sometimes they look good, and then they all of the sudden are show stoppers! Congratz!

shlap · Mar 24, 2014

Wow, never seen another like it Jackson, congrats! I'd call it Rainbow Dash :-D

alan.reef · Mar 24, 2014

can we see the latest shot?

NeverlosT · Mar 24, 2014

wow, it is every reefers dream to buy and average frag and have it turn into an acro that is so stunning!

Awesome man, Great job and good luck!

jackson6745 · Mar 25, 2014

shlap, it does look like the Rainbow Dash My little pony

Alan, the last pic posted was on March 12th (first page progression). I was going to post a new pic each month to see progression. It's only 13 days since the last shot

Since you requested a pic, I'll post one later when all the lights come on

NeverlosT, Thanks. I was pretty amazed when I saw this coral getting red polyps/coralites, especially since I had it for several months in a different reef with ordinary color.

jackson6745 · Mar 25, 2014

Alan here's a pic from today

and a pic from March 12th for comparison. This coral is growing well.

rideit6578 · Mar 25, 2014

Awesome Rich! It looks great

shlap · Apr 3, 2014

Definitely a hot piece, man. I'd be very curious to know how it does under some full spectrum LEDs. Sounds like you have some local buds who can test this.

jackson6745 · Apr 4, 2014

Thanks Dan

shlap, thanks man. I do have one buddy in particular that gets great color under a mix of sol blues and vegas. He runs 8 of them over a 200DD with T5's. I'm sure he will get even better color than I do (which he normally does). IMO it's way more than lighting. This coral did not show the red color in my old tank. Until I started this new system it looked like a normal blue tenuis. I think the mix of high light and lots of feedings had something to do with this. This is the highest nitrate level that I have ever maintained (10ppm-25ppm) and I must say that my color look more healthy than ever. Po4 is maintained very low .00- .02

ethridge78 · Apr 4, 2014

Thats awesome I want a frag of that.

shlap · Apr 12, 2014

jackson6745 said:
Thanks Dan

shlap, thanks man. I do have one buddy in particular that gets great color under a mix of sol blues and vegas. He runs 8 of them over a 200DD with T5's. I'm sure he will get even better color than I do (which he normally does). IMO it's way more than lighting. This coral did not show the red color in my old tank. Until I started this new system it looked like a normal blue tenuis. I think the mix of high light and lots of feedings had something to do with this. This is the highest nitrate level that I have ever maintained (10ppm-25ppm) and I must say that my color look more healthy than ever. Po4 is maintained very low .00- .02

Yep totally agree. I can't quite understand the strip-everything-out-and-put-it-back-in-with-expensive-additives methods out there. I keep the nitrates at around 20ppm too and get great color.