Walt Disney Tenuis Grow-Out Thread

ReefMadScientist · Aug 11, 2015

Hey R2R,

Thought I would break out of my shell and do a "grow out" style thread. I have a few nice frags that I wish I would had tracked a few years earlier but they are mini-colonies now so too late.

Just a FYI - I have a Reef Raft Orange Passion (Asia), ORA Joe the Coral, ORA Tri-Color, Blue Bonsai, Miyagi Tort, WWC Bizarro cyphastrea, etc. etc. but this frag steals the "stunning" show. Just nothing compared to the colors and "POP".

Parameters:
pH: 7.8-8.0
Temp: 77-79f
Salinity: 1.026
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 3ppm
po4: 0
Calcium: 440
dKH: 8.5
Magnesium: 1500

Supplements:
Reef Roids
BRS Reef Chili
Pohl's B-Balance
Pohl's Potassium Iodide Fluoride
Selcon
Vita-Chem Marine Formula
Radiant Reef Feeder Feast

Without further due.

Here is the first picture of, hopefully, a long life for this baby.

Photo taken from a Samsung Note 4

D maul · Aug 11, 2015

Nice, don't let the neighbors see it.

ReefMadScientist · Aug 11, 2015

D maul said:
Nice, don't let the neighbors see it.

Hahaha!!! I won't.

Russ265 · Aug 11, 2015

ReefMadScientist said:
Hahaha!!! I won't.

no.

you lift up those blinds and say

"take a look at my walt disney *BEEP*!!!"

mine is coming at the end of the month

although. my supplier wants $600 for a 1" frag. if you got a better supplier, send him my way? lol

slojmn · Aug 11, 2015

Russ265 said:
mine is coming at the end of the month

although. my supplier wants $600 for a 1" frag. if you got a better supplier, send him my way? lol

$600?? Ouch

. I managed to get a nice frag from Mike B. in a trade. Its growing but not fast enough to spread around yet, sorry.

Looking forward to seeing the growth and colors as this nice frag grows out in this thread.

Cleo642 · Aug 11, 2015

I was wondering where you would buy a $600 frag. I never see anything like it when I browse around online.
It's very pretty, as it should be.

Russ265 · Aug 11, 2015

slojmn said:
$600?? Ouch . I managed to get a nice frag from Mike B. in a trade. Its growing but not fast enough to spread around yet, sorry.

Looking forward to seeing the growth and colors as this nice frag grows out in this thread.

yeah im gonna have to bite the bullet. this is a real choice piece.

Cleo642 · Aug 11, 2015

Russ265 said:
yeah im gonna have to bite the bullet. this is a real choice piece.

I just Googled that specific coral, and found these in two different sites. $2000 for the whole thing. That's amazing.

hybridazn · Aug 11, 2015

This piece has taken almost as much heat as the RR avengers lol.

But its a nice piece and I too will get a frag eventually *cough* @slojmn *cough*

Lol

ReefMadScientist · Aug 11, 2015

chopsie said:
Has anybody actually got a picture of this coral under 14k lighting.
Every picture of it I have seen is under lots of blue

The picture had some white in it. I can get a white picture under LED if you'd like. I can tell you it still stands out compared to the other acros I have seen.

Reefnjunkie · Aug 11, 2015

A friend and I went in on one from Cornbred, mine has no blue yet it looks like the Orange Passion but time will tell

ReefMadScientist · Aug 11, 2015

Reefnjunkie said:
A friend and I went in on one from Cornbred, mine has no blue yet it looks like the Orange Passion but time will tell

Yeah the scary part I read from Mike Paletta is sometimes an acro frag can change color from its mother colony. I doubt that is the case with yours. When it gets bigger you will see the colors. I know Cornbred was selling his Rainbow Passion frags VERY SMALL.

Diesel · Aug 11, 2015

Let me jump in as I have one of the first frags Mike released about year or so ago, it might be a bit longer than that.
Since than the price jumped a little higher than I got it for............. $225........... sorry don't blame me, I just paid the bill, LOL!
Now I have to put up some pics of what I have and if I have time (not Paul B time

) and it will be this weekend to shoot some.

tonyespinoza1 · Aug 11, 2015

Definitely looking into buying a frag of this if I could get a good deal. I am interested to see it under whites

kacrocorals581 · Aug 12, 2015

mine shortly after getting it glued to a rock now but it just keeps getting better

hybridazn · Aug 12, 2015

There is a vendor who isnt a sponsor on here that has a piece and keeps it under 20k radiums. Its still a stunning piece.

Cassklar · Aug 12, 2015

I too have this piece it's blue at the moment just wondering what kind of lighting you have it under as in low light. Med or high I have a 6 bulb ati
Thanks

ReefMadScientist · Aug 12, 2015

Cassklar said:
I too have this piece it's blue at the moment just wondering what kind of lighting you have it under as in low light. Med or high I have a 6 bulb ati
Thanks

Right now I have it in low light. It seems to be happy there at the moment. I will move it up slowly and see how it does. My plan is to get it near my other SPS colonies but on its own rock of course.

Diesel · Aug 12, 2015

It's a slow grower for sure, Mike warned me for this.
Same issue I had with my Jawdropper............. very slow.
I had it high and it didn't like it.
Had it for a while in my frag tank as I still run LED's on there and it seems to like LED's better, as it is the only SPS in my DT under T5's that ain't happy right now.
With dimmed Blue lights from my LED's only after all T5's bulbs are off as I run the ATI powermodule 8 bulb with 4 LED's clusters you can see the true colors as in many pics from Mike Biggar.

slojmn · Aug 12, 2015

hybridazn said:
This piece has taken almost as much heat as the RR avengers lol.

But its a nice piece and I too will get a frag eventually *cough* @slojmn *cough*

Lol

Hehehehehe, of course!!!

Mine has a little color, it got pretty bleached out in my tank woes but thrived through it all. Seems like a hardy sucker. If I hadn't gotten the exact piece from Mike that I saw a picture of under his lighting in his tank I would never believe mine was the original Walt Disney!! Now it is starting to color up, finally, still pretty tannish though. In another few months it should start to get some nice colors going on. He told me it does best under the blues. I run a pretty white LED light setup in the tank I have it in so it will be interesting to see in time how it adapts. I plan to throw a frag in my main display when it gets a bit bigger and I can get a branch and see how it does under MH/T5/LED. Mike says it will look better with the LED's in more blue range. I got no pictures, I know......I suck.