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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graffiti Spot" data-source="post: 10634552" data-attributes="member: 24520">I love mariculture acropora and they just need a stable tank to adjust to an aquarium. (They are normally very nice looking too) Best to pick them up as soon as they come in before they are put into the stores tanks and start acclimating.  Or let them sit at the store until they have adjusted and changed to normal aquarium colorations, but honestly I wouldn’t trust many stores to be able to keep them long term unless they order these Mari pieces monthly on routine. Also they do best in really good white light with good flow. People with their led on all blue and hung right above the water might have some trouble keeping them alive/colored. Also lots of live rock is always a plus like mentioned above and don’t move it until it’s growing.  The bases grow algae you don’t want to bring into your tank if it’s already clean. I never cared until I got codium that was crazy aggressive.  I would imagine more aefw or pest bugs are found in hobbiests tanks than from ocean grown corals. I rarely found any aefw when getting wild and mariculture acropora.  But I often found them on corals from others tanks.I can not believe 150 bucks is all of a sudden a deal now. People used to complain so bad about 100 dollar colonies. You used to be able to get each colony for about 35 bucks  if you ordered them yourself but I guess that’s probably doubled now. You will hear comments about them being hard to keep because most people don’t understand the signs of stressed acropora that have been grown in the ocean.  It takes a good eye to spot warning signs of a stressed acro, thin flesh, sucked in polyps, bright neon colors  and also knowing what crabs to keep and not to keep.  A lot of the time one small fuzzy crab can end up killing a coral and you wouldn’t even know it was in there.</blockquote>

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