Zeus Rainbow Tenuis

[Evan West]

Mother colony has relatively advanced hyperplasia...

Dont mean to derail the for sale thread but is this bad?

 

[ChiCity]

Dont mean to derail the for sale thread but is this bad?

For humans?
Lol, no bueno.

For corals, I believe it's not a good thing either...

 

[Mattrg02]

Where do people find this stuff? Another planet? Someone's dream? These colors are unnatural.

Let me know when frags are going for $80

 

[larcat]

It's not awesome, certainly. If you google my user name and "hyperplasia" you will find a thread on another forum with pretty much all the internet info about it consolidated in one spot.

The short version is -- It (very very likely) is NOT dangerous for people to put frags with hyperplasia in their tanks, but it is a disease. The coral isn't healthy.

@Evan West @ChiCity

 

[NC_ocean18]

Hey everyone, this is the last frag from my for trade post and I would like to sell it outright. The only trade I would be tempted by would be JF Homewrecker or similar value acro.

Frag for sale-

Momma

Macro

600 shipped

Thank you for looking!

Hi, it has been 2 years since your initial post. I am curious as to how the mother colony is doing and if you still have this piece growing in your tank/ how it has responded to captivity over the years. As for the hyperplasia, we now know with the boom in bounce mushrooms, that this can be a response to light extremes. Which would make sense since you recieved the mother colony so bleached and with such dramatic coloration, you clearly acclimated her to high par. We also know that corals that develop hyperplasia due to light intensity may show regression of said hyperplasia in lowered light intensity, or by fragging the infected regions away. I would love an update for my scientific curiosity. And if it is still fairing well in captivity, I would love yo see an updated picture. Thank you.

 

[danreefman]

Hi, it has been 2 years since your initial post. I am curious as to how the mother colony is doing and if you still have this piece growing in your tank/ how it has responded to captivity over the years. As for the hyperplasia, we now know with the boom in bounce mushrooms, that this can be a response to light extremes. Which would make sense since you recieved the mother colony so bleached and with such dramatic coloration, you clearly acclimated her to high par. We also know that corals that develop hyperplasia due to light intensity may show regression of said hyperplasia in lowered light intensity, or by fragging the infected regions away. I would love an update for my scientific curiosity. And if it is still fairing well in captivity, I would love yo see an updated picture. Thank you.

Pretty sure they lost the piece. Only a couple people they sold it to kept it. At least that's what I read, somewhere on a forum