Vivid Aquarium Confetti Acro

steve o · Feb 18, 2018

JonJ said:
Under 20k

Under 10k

My nub has done nothing but encrust for the past few months. The color is getting really nice though. I have this at the top of rockwork getting 450 par from an Orphek Atlantik v4. As you can see, taking photos under 20k looks closer to their pics. Even under 10k it is a beautiful piece.

Sweet piece for sure! I’m looking to upgrade my lights and strongly considering the Atlantik v4. Are you happy with them?

JonJ · Feb 18, 2018

steve o said:
Sweet piece for sure! I’m looking to upgrade my lights and strongly considering the Atlantik v4. Are you happy with them?

Yes I am. The tank was set up in September of last year and I have slowly ramped them to where they are at now (running all channels at 100% for 6 hours a day) with a ramp on either side. Now we will see how much growth I get with them. I have nothing to compare them with other than 250 watt de hqi halides that I ran in the early 2000s. I get good coverage with 2 on a 2x6 foot tank-the main reason I went with them. They are huge.

gig 'em · Feb 19, 2018

As my colony grows larger it's starting to develop more green in the center. Not sure if it's a shading thing or just how it colors as the colony grows larger. I know Vivids mother colony was green towards the center and orange/red at the tips. I'm hoping to replicate that look one day with mine.

mpsteve · Feb 19, 2018

It’s looking very good. Lower light will bring the green out

larangcon · Feb 19, 2018

Very nice, you have done a great job of keeping your corals happy. Time to sit back and enjoy the show.

FarmerTy · Mar 6, 2018

Confetti update. Just a whole lot of encrusting and staying flatter. Not a ton of vertical growth yet but it looks primed, well, at least none that the naso didn't bowl over. Stupid fish.

gig 'em · Mar 6, 2018

Confetti update for the same coral, 4 blocks away from FarmerTy. We've ruled out that it's not the water! [emoji13]

FarmerTy · Mar 6, 2018

Oh man, that local water is something else! Both our sediment blocks were mostly brown in just 4-5 months.

FarmerTy · Mar 13, 2018

Here's a top-down that probably shows its colors much better than the front shot.

Anybody else getting a hint of aqua on the base on their confettis? I'm not getting the green polyps just yet but I think it needs to be more colony sized like Gigems before that shows.

mpsteve · Mar 22, 2018

So here’s mine after I fragged it three times. Fragged it once to have a piece in both my display and frag tank then fragged again to get a piece in my buddies tank. We coral bank with each other. It’s a just Incase something happens to ours we can get a new Frag for free. So this should be growing out now so I can contribute

gig 'em · Mar 22, 2018

Soon enough my colony will be bigger than Vivids

CoralWealth · Mar 22, 2018

gig 'em said:
Soon enough my colony will be bigger than Vivids

very nice

in person, does it look like it does in their pictures?

larangcon · Mar 22, 2018

gig 'em said:
Soon enough my colony will be bigger than Vivids

Great job gig'em

gig 'em · Mar 22, 2018

codydemmel4 said:
very nice

in person, does it look like it does in their pictures?

I was just there again last week on a visit. The one in their DT has lost some of its multi colors (at least viewing from the side and not above, so it's hard to say), but still an amazing gradient of colors from the center to the tips. Their fragging colony in the back that's getting blasted with light is more of a lighter red like mine. So I think if you want the deep green transitioning to reds, you should keep it at lower light. I'm incredibly happy with the growth where it is, so I won't be moving it lower for a while [emoji16]