Unique Corals Bali Shortcake

Zach18 · Dec 23, 2014

I wanted to share my Bali Shortcake Acro that I got from Unique a couple of months ago. It has had great growth so far and the colors get better everyday. I am running radion pros at 55%. This picture was taken with my iPhone and radions were set to 20k. So you can see this coral will not only live but thrive under the right LEDs. This has become my new favorite Acro. Thank you Scott Fellman and Unique Corals for sending me such a great coral. Zach

Legendary Corals · Dec 23, 2014

That's insane growth for a couple of months! I'm still on one branch.

ReeferBee · Dec 23, 2014

Haha, pretty sure he purchased a colony or mini colony. Birdsnest don't even grow that fast

NanoFever · Dec 23, 2014

Beatiful!!!! Let me know when you want to send me a frag!

unchin · Dec 23, 2014

Got one too a few months ago. Mine's still growing a good base.

Diesel · Dec 23, 2014

Need to get me a new one, this time I'll go for the colony too.

Zach18 · Dec 23, 2014

Yeah, I have two frags of this that look great and are turning into mini colonies themselves. However when I saw this one I had to have it... I guess I'm a little impatient.

sawdonkey · Oct 15, 2020

Let’s see some pics of this. After two years of dormancy, mine took off recently. I’ll post pics later. Let’s see yours!

lemonade · Oct 15, 2020

Sounds like mine. It was slow growing and brown for the longest time.

Hard to capture the blue tips but they really set this piece off

unchin · Oct 15, 2020

lemonade said:
Sounds like mine. It was slow growing and brown for the longest time.

Hard to capture the blue tips but they really set this piece off

Beautiful! One of my favorite acros. Been looking to get another one myself. Lost mine a while ago

sawdonkey · Oct 16, 2020

Here’s mine:

Graffiti Spot · Oct 17, 2020

Nice pieces lemonade and sawdonkey! The pics almost look like the acros were in the same tank, at a glance. Man this coral is so under rated. It never comes up on anyone’s favorite list which is amazing. This coral looks amazing in basically any tank and there are a number of variants that look really nice as well.
Bump for more pics, uc lineage or not.

sawdonkey · Oct 17, 2020

Pedoconfuego said:
Nice pieces lemonade and sawdonkey! The pics almost look like the acros were in the same tank, at a glance. Man this coral is so under rated. It never comes up on anyone’s favorite list which is amazing. This coral looks amazing in basically any tank and there are a number of variants that look really nice as well.
Bump for more pics, uc lineage or not.

Thanks, I thought the same thing. We’re both getting the same color and we shot under the same lighting. I’m really glad this thing is growing for me.

Have you seen the blue light orange filter shots of this? It looks like it should cost $1k per 1/2 inch. Note...not my photo!!! I don’t take shots like this.

lemonade · Oct 17, 2020

It's definitely an underrated coral. I think the tendency for this piece to be a bit finicky makes it less common than some of the other similar morphs like the firecracker for example. It's been my experience that if anything goes wrong it will brown out, and frags always seem to brown out until new growth begins.

I will try later to get a better pic of mine showing more of the blue tips it gets. You can see them best when lights are out and some sunlight is hitting them. All around just a really cool piece and grows pretty dang fast when it's happy.