Acro ID

[sassyonmane]

Does anyone know what acro this is? was sold as a walt disney but the worker was unable to confirm.

 

[sassyonmane]

the acro on the right in second photo, but also is the one on the left (left of the bonsai) a pc rainbow? the encrusting base has more greens and yellows and red stem with some yellow and purple

 

[bobnicaragua]

I’ve got the acros you’re asking about in my tank.

That could be a Walt Disney. They’re not the easiest coral to color up. You’ll have to wait and see what it does. I never pulled great colors out of mine. It’s been a finicky stick for me. It STN’d last year, but the base survived and it’s starting to branch again. Here’s an old pic. It’s the tall acro on the right



That does looks like a PC rainbow. Mine is all red in about 500 par. They color up under lower par. I find PC rainbow is pretty easy to keep and a fast grower.

PC rainbow in the center and bonsai on the right.



Here’s that bonsai at its peak, before I trimmed it.

 

[sassyonmane]

I’ve got the acros you’re asking about in my tank.

That could be a Walt Disney. They’re not the easiest coral to color up. You’ll have to wait and see what it does. I never pulled great colors out of mine. It’s been a finicky stick for me. It STN’d last year, but the base survived and it’s starting to branch again. Here’s an old pic. It’s the tall acro on the right



That does looks like a PC rainbow. Mine is all red in about 500 par. They color up under lower par. I find PC rainbow is pretty easy to keep and a fast grower.

PC rainbow in the center and bonsai on the right.



Here’s that bonsai at its peak, before I trimmed it.

I noticed recently the "potential walt" has lost almost all polyp extention, but again, all the acros in my tank have no PE and only at night, maybe im observing the walt at times where the others have polyps out and the walt isint out yet but every time i check the walt does not have polyps out (fully) at night too and only peeks a bit during daytime, Could this mean a water quality or light issue?

 

[sassyonmane]

also do you think the pc rainbow and the bonsai is too close together?

 

[bobnicaragua]

As far as polyp extension goes, I run high flow right above the colonies. It helps keep them clean and acros love flow. Your nutrients need to be reasonable or at least detectable. Make sure that none of your fish are picking at the acros.

Space is always a problem in a SPS tank. Spread them out if you have the room. They can usually grow into each other without bleaching, but one tends to overgrow the other.

 

[Troylee]

Looks like a pc rainbow, bonsai and green slimer

 

[The Ugly Phase]

Looks like a pc rainbow, bonsai and green slimer

outch walt disney price for a green slimer

 

[sassyonmane]

Looks like a pc rainbow, bonsai and green slimer

whats throwing me off is it has completely different polyps to australia's "green slimer" (we dont actually have green slimer here but we have a similar acro called the dallas)

 

[sassyonmane]

whats throwing me off is it has completely different polyps to australia's "green slimer" (we dont actually have green slimer here but we have a similar acro called the dallas)

and much more yellow

 

[sassyonmane]

As far as polyp extension goes, I run high flow right above the colonies. It helps keep them clean and acros love flow. Your nutrients need to be reasonable or at least detectable. Make sure that none of your fish are picking at the acros.

Space is always a problem in a SPS tank. Spread them out if you have the room. They can usually grow into each other without bleaching, but one tends to overgrow the other.

i have no angelfish in the tank, only damsels, clowns, a lawnmower blenny and a yellow ambasseder

 

[bobnicaragua]

i have no angelfish in the tank, only damsels, clowns, a lawnmower blenny and a yellow ambasseder

How’s your flow?

 

[slingfox]

The acro on the right does not look like Walt Disney whatsoever.

 

[Danjoethepirate]

Could be, I've had WD frags turn all green. Typically the coralites stand out more on Walt, but frags do funny things. I've had frags grow a huge base and turn into smoothish lumps and then grow branches, or never grow a big base and just start throwing branches up. Corals are weird.

 

[sassyonmane]

both return pump and gyre is set to random flow

 

[allof fish]

Unfortunately I believe that’s 100% a green slimer. The coralites are not as pronounced as a wd or any tenuis. You’ll have to see when it grows a bit but I wouldn’t be too optimistic. The red one appears to be a pc rainbow but hard to tell exactly

 

[slingfox]

Unfortunately I believe that’s 100% a green slimer. The coralites are not as pronounced as a wd or any tenuis. You’ll have to see when it grows a bit but I wouldn’t be too optimistic. The red one appears to be a pc rainbow but hard to tell exactly

Agreed, the coralite structure looks nothing like WD.

 

[bobnicaragua]

both return pump and gyre is set to random flow

I run four large power heads on high with no fluctuations. They’re throwing a constant strong flow right above the colonies. That creates a lot of polyp movement and extension.

 

[sassyonmane]

Bought a wild strawberry shortcake acro colony today, it has its feeders out 24/7 (even at the store) and as soon as it went into my tank it had them out, ill see if it keeps them out or retracts them like the other acros I have

 

[sassyonmane]

4th day and the colony is starting to color up already and also polyp extension and feeder extension is still very strong, also the slimer has started to extend its polyps again