WWC After Party vs. RR Pink Floyd

[Sabellafella]

Thats the same thing I’ve noticed. After party has lots of purple in it.

Next time I'm at my buddys I'll have to get a photo of it. Piece was almost completely purple with just hints of yellow/green with reflecting blue tips.

 

[Sabellafella]

Thats the same thing I’ve noticed. After party has lots of purple in it.

Bubba found a real photo of it. Absolutely gorgeous piece

 

[bubbaque]

Bubba found a real photo of it. Absolutely gorgeous piece

Beautiful. This is a pic WWC posted a while ago and you can see how much purple theirs has also.

 

[29bonsaireef]

There was so much of this coral coming in at one point. Seems like all the mainstream vendors got one and named it something different. With variations so minor, it'd be hard to tell if it was the actual coral or just varying tank conditions causing them.

The earlier pieces of the "Wolverine type" acro always looked similar to the floyd, but had more purple skin like the images above, from what I recall.

 

[Guttersnipe]

There was so much of this coral coming in at one point. Seems like all the mainstream vendors got one and named it something different. With variations so minor, it'd be hard to tell if it was the actual coral or just varying tank conditions causing them.

The earlier pieces of the "Wolverine type" acro always looked similar to the floyd, but had more purple skin like the images above, from what I recall.

Whatever happened to all those “wolverine” acros?

 

[hyprc]

Whatever happened to all those “wolverine” acros?

ASD moves MANY frags of it. Pretty sure Boom picked up a frag and got an active mother colony going over a year ago and always had frags on the site last time I checked (before it changed ownership, it's been a while since I've shopped for coral).

 

[BantyRooster97]

update on these 2?

 

[BoomCorals]

ASD moves MANY frags of it. Pretty sure Boom picked up a frag and got an active mother colony going over a year ago and always had frags on the site last time I checked (before it changed ownership, it's been a while since I've shopped for coral).

I have a small colony growing, but haven't been willing to cut frags yet!

 

[njreefkeeper]

Wanted to resurrect this thread. I have both the RR Pink Floyd and the WWC Afterparty. Many people have mentioned they believe it’s the same coral. At first I was in agreement but after watching them both grow out I’m not so sure.

The Afterparty appears to have longer polyps when it’s happy (much more like a Tyree Pink Lemonade). When an ICP test came back with many of my trace elements being stripped (algae scrubber woes), I started dosing Brightwell’s Restore trace element supplement. Within a few weeks I started to see the blue tips on the Afterparty that are in the picsthat I’d never seen in my piece before. The Pink Floyd never got those colors and seems to be a thicker growth form (at least for me).

I know this is hardly scientific but most of what we do is observational in the hobby anyway. IMHO I feel there’s a trace element missing that may be quickly depleted even with regular water changes. WWC may be able to pull those colors simply because they’re constantly bagging corals out of tanks and refilling with freshly mixed seawater; always replenishing whatever trace element may be involved.