Vivids rainbow delight acro

Crusader · Sep 22, 2013

I am trying to get this acro to color up. Does anyone have vivids rainbow delight acro under AI Vega? If so were in the tank and what settings on the leds?

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Touring · Sep 22, 2013

It might not color up at all.... If you just got it, give it time to settle in. What is your par reading at that spot?

watchguy123 · Sep 22, 2013

Vivids rainbow almost always browns upon fragging. And notoriously takes a while to color back up. Patience is the key

evolved · Sep 23, 2013

I've had a frag for a year now; picked it up from Jason Fox at MACNA 2012.

It browned out after being introduced to my system; it's still brownish. Although it has encrusted nicely, shows good polyp extension, and is also branching, it's still brown. And it's near the top of my tank.

One day it will have color again. When? No idea.

goody · Sep 26, 2013

Agree, this one takes time. After it encrust quite a bit, and the branches have grown to a mini colony, it will color up. How big is the actual frag/branches?

bct15 · Sep 26, 2013

I got one about a month ago that showed up brown and bleached. It also had two small pieces broke off. The big piece has purple tips and some yellow coming in behind the purple and pinkish polyps. The small broken pieces are turning neon green and blue with reddish polyps. So I'd say it takes about a month to two months to get its color back. It grows fast though.

lakeviewink · Sep 26, 2013

Mine has color on the new growth, neon green, the rest is light brown. Then again, I've only had it for a week. It's under Reefbreeders photon 24s about halfway up a 27" tank.

Badfish83 · Sep 26, 2013

Mine also browned out.

Dowtish · Sep 26, 2013

I think this one likes to be blasted with 250W-400W MH's to really color up. Thats the only one Ive seen that was spot with its coloration. It was under 400W radiums about 10" from the top

CoryC · Sep 27, 2013

mine kept its color, but has lightened in coloration. has some decent PE though. i also have another older frag that is still brown but still alive!

K_red_raider · Sep 27, 2013

I got one from Jason's website about four months ago and it came in brown but once I got it under my 250 halides it has started to grow and has a very bright green color to it. right now it is just encrusting but doing very well.

Sytfu_IS · Sep 29, 2013

Anyone here got the Ultimate's Rainbow? I can't get it to fully color up, I grew it from 1" and it's not 2-3" and largely encrusted.
Tips are colored, but the body is just brown?

kacrocorals581 · Sep 30, 2013

Jf unknown acro dose the same thing.

K_red_raider · Oct 3, 2013

kacrocorals581 said:
Jf unknown acro dose the same thing.

I have the JF unknown as well and it is brown with little polyp extension. I have been getting a lot of growth "encrusting" so I hope that it will color up as it grows.

Chameleon · Oct 3, 2013

Dowtish said:
I think this one likes to be blasted with 250W-400W MH's to really color up. Thats the only one Ive seen that was spot with its coloration. It was under 400W radiums about 10" from the top

+1 the best frags/colonies of this I have seen have been under high halide light. maybe its just one of those corals that does best under halides.

Arkayology · Oct 3, 2013

No pics? We need pics!!

watchguy123 · Oct 4, 2013

Let my phosphates creep up and body darkened, correction took place but I assume it will take a little while to lighten up ( referring to my ultimate rainbow)
This Is ultimates:

Was in vivid aquariums this week, they have 2 or 3 colonies encrusting in their large display tank and just starting to branch, probably not ready for fragging but perfect color examples