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Here's the "golden" coral in my tank. I like to peruse my local LFS for any cool new corals and one day I was there one of the workers saw me looking and offered "We have a brain coral that was burned during shipment, would give you a discount on it." I couldn't resist a deal, and thinking I could nurse it back to health, I took the deal and the brain coral. It had bleach marks and looked in pretty bad shape when I got it home. Well, several months later, it is as happy as can be in my tank: regularly puffs up, comes out, bleach marks are gone, everything is great. Except the color. No matter what I do, it refuses to be anything other then a "Golden" brain coral. I'm still holding out for a designer color pattern
Bought:
Received:
In fairness to the vendor, their photo is top down and it does look a lot better top down...But definitely not like their photo
That's what I call a steal! Can't believe they sold you that gem! Wow..gutsy to even post that; they might ask you to pay more! LOL!
You want ugly? I got ugly for you Here is an acropora abrotanoides that I had for over a year. I called it the "Hulks Junk". I generally stay away from thick corals, especially corals with a reputation for being as difficult as an abrotanoides. It was on sale at a LFS for $20 so I gave it a shot. I actually kept good color for around 6 months, but after a cyano remover dose, it lost all the green and went tan on me. For the last 8 month I have kept this coral and it has been dormant, until recently. I transferred my previous 60 gallon into a new 115g custom cube 10 weeks ago. The abrotanoides liked the new tank and showed some better pe and more of a turd brown instead of a tan brown. It looked healthier and actually started showing small growth nubs. Ironically I just got rid of it today. I couldn't stand looking at it anymore, and I need the real estate for a shortcake
Recent Pic (Don't stare too long)
IMG_7355 by rich.colombo, on Flickr
Early pic shortly after purchase
IMG_3676 by rich.colombo, on Flickr
Several months down the road
IMG_4908 by rich.colombo, on Flickr
I guess these would be my "uglies". I've had them all since frags over the last couple years, tried high/med/low lighting, and they show hints of color now and then, so in keep them in hopes that they will completely color up one day
Unknown acropora (Been this color since the day I got the frag)
Pink Millipora
ORA Rose Millipora
Scripps Acro
Here is my entry. A fellow reefer in our area was breaking down his tank. After talking to him and finding out he had a pearl berry I was stoked to go over and buy at least that and possibly some others. I did get a couple nice corals but the pearl berry I really wanted was not one of them, even though I did buy it. The pearl berry was very brown but I went ahead and got it in the hopes that it would color up. Plus I got it cheap since it was brown. Here it is a couple months later with hardly any change. Pic is taken with a top down box under 20k Radiums with an iphone and is unedited. Enjoy!
my once purple acro is now baby poop brown, hoping to be purple again one day!