Zoa Spotlight: Cherry Charms

revhtree · May 23, 2013

This week's zoa spotlight belongs to the morph most popularly called Cherry Charms! And the words cherry and charms are so fitting for this beauty!

Please share your cherry charm photos and experience for others to learn from and drool over.

image via mallorieGgator

revsgirl · May 23, 2013

Pretty!!

Chasing the Dream Giver, not the dream! Tonya

revhtree · May 23, 2013

Bump!

ReeferBean · May 23, 2013

IME unless you have MH and them up high... they will never look like that. They always revert to brownish mohawks... while the babies soemtimes hold that color.

ladyreefer1983 · May 23, 2013

chadfarmer · May 23, 2013

Mine never look as nice under led or t5

Chrissy · May 23, 2013

slojmn · May 23, 2013

I have no photo...I know, "useless", but I have my Cherry Charms high up under my MH and I cannot get a bright pink skirt or the nice inner color. The colony has definitely improved in color up high but no where near what I am looking for.

Nice pics Chrissy and ladyreefer1983

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RareReef · May 23, 2013

Mine always turn into Pink and Golds

Chrissy · May 23, 2013

Chrissy said:

This is what they look like a month later under T5 ATI bulbs...

g-forced · May 23, 2013

These are mine now, still coloring up from the usual brown and gold that they turned into from low light. IME they like HIGH light.

skinz78 · May 23, 2013

Here's mine.

kfd · May 23, 2013

I believe it depends on whether you have the true cherry charm. I have cherry charm and pink+gold. Cherry charm color do not shift much around my tank. I'm using diy led. Pink+gold darken alot in lower light. Cherry grows slow on me too(that's probably my problem thou)

ladyreefer1983 · May 24, 2013

kfd said:
I believe it depends on whether you have the true cherry charm. I have cherry charm and pink+gold. Cherry charm color do not shift much around my tank. I'm using diy led. Pink+gold darken alot in lower light. Cherry grows slow on me too(that's probably my problem thou)

yes my cherry charms grows slow too...i got a cherry charm before and it turned out to be a nicely colored pink and golds very fast grower, i really thought it was a cherry charm...the pic i posted here is cherry charms and it grows very slow...got 2p with a baby last february and thats the growth i got so far....i notice too that it doesnt change color even if i put it low or high...on the pic i posted the palys on the background are pink and golds

kfd · May 24, 2013

ladyreefer1983 said:
yes my cherry charms grows slow too...i got a cherry charm before and it turned out to be a nicely colored pink and golds very fast grower, i really thought it was a cherry charm...the pic i posted here is cherry charms and it grows very slow...got 2p with a baby last february and thats the growth i got so far....i notice too that it doesnt change color even if i put it low or high...on the pic i posted the palys on the background are pink and golds

You are right. That's probably how we can tell which is the real Charm. Cherry Charm is one of my brightest in tank. Just super slow on me....