Anyone care to share their anacropora?

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Just a word of warning to the wise, I have the RR tropicana Anacropora and have seen the RR Goldenrod in person. The former does have very nice jawbreaker-gold color under blue light, but grows EXCEEDINGLY slow, the latter you could not pay me to put in my tank.
 

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Not sure how fast it grows, but the coral I saw looked absolutely nothing like ReefRaft's pic (surprise surprise).
 

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Here's my red anacropora before I fragged it. It grows pretty fast imo. But not as fast as the green one. I love these corals... very forgiving!
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Here’s mine. Got the red one maybe 6-8 months ago as a small 1/2” piece, probably 4” now. The green is older and getting huge, easily 6-8” tall. I know they don’t appear to be that big, it’s just that all the surrounding corals are that much bigger.

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Nice! Mine has been bumped around the tank this whole time and is clustering very tightly. I need to find a good spot to try and mount it where the Mexican turbos won’t knock it loose.
 

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I had to cull my snails, some are just ridiculously huge and do all my fragging for me. Into the sump went anything bigger than a golf ball.
 
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Yea I would but they are the only ones that keep my rocks clean. Also urchins don’t seem to live long for me for some reason. Also I have those darn pest white cone snails that eat other snails from the soft spots under the shell. So I gotta replenish them a lot. And I see the big flat worms that eat snails sometimes. I am wondering if one of those pests eat urchins because I wanted to try just urchins for the clean up crew but the tuxedos I got didn’t last long. They were added just before my last little Dino breakout that lasted a few weeks so that could have done them in maybe as well? Eh reefing...
 
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Updates on the anacropora and the deepwater I got at the same store. The anacropora is defiantly growing denser than most of the Jason fox pics I see. Tnyr5 you think it’s the same type of anacropora and it’s just the higher light making it dense? I wonder what sets the different anacropora apart.
The smooth skinned piece I am really loving with the nice blue in it. Here are some quick camera filter pics, I will post the halide pics when the lights come on.

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Here is an update on mine. The darn thing loves to get blown into rock crevices so it’s been through some neglect. It’s clustering really tight which I do like. Pic is under blues with my camera flash. It’s showing some odd bumpiness to the flesh recently too. Hopefully it kicks back into growth mode now that it’s in a decent spot. Honestly I am amazed I have not broken it yet, what a fragile piece.

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That looks great, I’m going to have to cut mine in half and move it lower too. Like that coloration better.
 
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The change in color is dramatic for sure. Mines just a nice orange in daylight under good light. Some of them even look almost pink in lower light.
Thanks to everyone who has shared in this thread. I am still waiting for the Tropicana and goldenrod to get posted some more though.
 

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Here’s my goldenrod amongst a bunch of my other sps. You can see the Tropicana also behind it.

I find both are quite interesting. The goldenrod is the yellowest sps in my tank. The Tropicana is orange with green polyps

picture taken w iPhone11

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Here’s mine, I picked it up about a year ago at a local swap. Same as everyone else, it was just a single stalk with a few tiny fingers and has grown fast since. It wasnt labeled as a yellow, but when it was next to a “green goblin” it was definitely more of a yellow.

I now have to small colonies, feeding wand accident haha.

Pics are taken with an IPhone 7(yes it’s old haha), no fancy settings. Pics were then taken with a clip on orange lense. Flow was stopped for pics.

You can compare a darker green slimmer, a brighter green psammocora, and then the even more bright almost yellow anacropora.

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here’s my main colony before I had to remove it and some other colonies that had taken over half of my tank. I could no longer access the bottom or clean the side glass because of it) It became HUGE and took over. It’s really a cool coral and I loved mine. (I still have a secondary colony, and the larger one is already growing back LOL).
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here’s my main colony before I had to remove it and some other colonies that had taken over half of my tank. I could no longer access the bottom or clean the side glass because of it) It became HUGE and took over. It’s really a cool coral and I loved mine. (I still have a secondary colony, and the larger one is already growing back LOL).
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