Coloring up Cherry bomb tenuis

[Necrodaemus]

Just got this piece of TGC Cherry bomb today and have it placed around 300 par. Pic taken under blues with orange filter. Looks like it has a ways to go with coloring up. Any tips?

 

[apb03]

It looks pretty good to me, what do you think is off about the colour? Your axial tips are blue and polyps are pink.

Nice piece Imo.

 

[Tuffloud1]

Here’s some chunks I had to cut off my mother colony. Definitely red and furry. New growth tips as of lately have been very white.

 

[Necrodaemus]

Here’s some chunks I had to cut off my mother colony. Definitely red and furry. New growth tips as of lately have been very white.

Very nice! Mine has since colored up tremendously since posting this.

 

[Tuffloud1]

Very nice! Mine has since colored up tremendously since posting this.

Looks great!

 

[aumwantanai]

What food do you feed?

 

[Necrodaemus]

What food do you feed?

Mainly just frozen mysis and Rod’s. Occasionally I’ll dose a little Red Sea AB+, Oyster Feast and just started feeding Benereef a few days ago.

 

[aumwantanai]

Mainly just frozen mysis and Rod’s. Occasionally I’ll dose a little Red Sea AB+, Oyster Feast and just started feeding Benereef a few days ago.

animo and reefroids do you wear them?

 

[Necrodaemus]

animo and reefroids do you wear them?

For aminos, I sometimes dose Red Sea AB+. I don’t use Roids as it spikes PO4 bad in my tank.

 

[MDAquatics]

looks really nice!

 

[Necrodaemus]

looks really nice!

It does! Really blew me away how quickly it took on the deeper red and pink.

 

[Necrodaemus]

A pic is worth a thousand words. Top down view.

 

[SeaDweller]

Just got this piece of TGC Cherry bomb today and have it placed around 300 par. Pic taken under blues with orange filter. Looks like it has a ways to go with coloring up. Any tips?

That looks pretty much like CB. The acro skin color itself isn’t really impressive. The name came about for the color of the deep red polyps, otherwise it has a mild pink tone to the flesh it self.

 

[Tuffloud1]

That looks pretty much like CB. The acro skin color itself isn’t really impressive. The name came about for the color of the deep red polyps, otherwise it has a mild pink tone to the flesh it self.

Agreed. I was honestly a little underwhelmed by the flesh color itself after growing out. Nice red polyps though.

 

[Necrodaemus]

That looks pretty much like CB. The acro skin color itself isn’t really impressive. The name came about for the color of the deep red polyps, otherwise it has a mild pink tone to the flesh it self.

Yes. It’s definitely a Cherrybomb

Agreed. I was honestly a little underwhelmed by the flesh color itself after growing out. Nice red polyps though.

it definitely has green in the lower areas of the branches but the polyps are so fuzzy that it hides it well. Even with the green showing behind the pink and red, it’s a stunner.

 

[lakai]

potassium

 

[Necrodaemus]

potassium

Right on. 2 weeks after adding it to my tank, it went boom red and pink. I keep potassium at 400-420.

 

[Reef Puncher]

was it just time? because it was a new frag? was that all you had to do to get color? im trying to color up my homewrecker or walt disney or bill murray

 

[Necrodaemus]

was it just time? because it was a new frag? was that all you had to do to get color? im trying to color up my homewrecker or walt disney or bill murray

Mainly time but could have been a difference in my water chemistry (traces, nutrients, etc) vs the system it came from. Here's an updated pic of it, my Bill Murray and WD.

 

[Reef Puncher]

dang nice. your polyp extension is alot better than mine. my bill murray is mostly green. but the frags are small and only about 7 months old. all they have done in the 7 months is encrust. encrusted whole entire frag plug plus onto the rocks, with ZERO branching. so annoying lol