Coral of the Week: Vivids Rainbow Delight Acropora

[mylittlejade]

^^ mine is up at the top with high flow and I have the coloring almost to where the picture in this thread is at. It's still a small frag that has encrusted on a 1" plug though.

Bryan

 

[All Delight]

Wow! Can this be kept in a high light t5 tank?

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I have mine under T5's. Growing well, colors ehh...but from talking to many people who have it, it's can be a tough one to color up.

 

[Aquaph8]

I agree, I've had mine for a while now and it's just starting to show some love.

 

[kuyatwo]

Here's a pic of mine from last summer

Be patient it looks brown till it becomes a mini colony.

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[Zack]

Mine started showing a little.color.once I blasted it with light, Its less than a foot away from a 250 radium, dead center

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[All Delight]

Here's mine.

 

[Aquaph8]

That's looking really good Darrell, looks like its working on some branches too.

 

[Zack]

Lookin sexy all delight

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[Nuocmam]

That's looking really good Darrell, looks like its working on some branches too.

+1 to that. Wait... It's missing a branch

 

[florida reef]

Agreed. Definitely a beautiful acro. Here is mine:


In my experience, this acro likes high light. I have mine in the middle of the tank and it is not as colorful as the frags I cut which are now in my frag rack a lot higher.

 

[jtomasi]

here is mine a day or two after I got from it JF at CT's Frag Farmers Market...has since browned a little but has been growing nicely.

 

[Zack]

I have heard a few people say that it's the same as avengers that vivid bought it from reef raft, any truth to this? Looking at the vivid colony on vivids site I can see how they kind resemble each other but not really. Looking at any other vivid colony I don't think they look alike and if anything vivids reminds me of ultimates rainbow. Actually they look a lot alike. Even both have the same issue with being tough to color up.

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[mylittlejade]

I have both the vivid and ultimates rainbow and my two mini colony's of ultimates don't look much like the vivid rainbow delight. They have some simulatlritys but nothing that will confuse someone on which is which. I think a lot of people have a hard time coloring them up because this coral demands very high light. considering vivid was blasting it with 1000whatt and 400 watt lighting back in the day to get the color they had us T5 guys need it to sit high up in the tank.

Bryan

I have heard a few people say that it's the same as avengers that vivid bought it from reef raft, any truth to this? Looking at the vivid colony on vivids site I can see how they kind resemble each other but not really. Looking at any other vivid colony I don't think they look alike and if anything vivids reminds me of ultimates rainbow. Actually they look a lot alike. Even both have the same issue with being tough to color up.

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[goody]

Here is my friend's colony. He has it on a rock placed on the sand bed of his 180g. He has it under t5 and LED supplemental lighting. When he cuts frags, the color is like the mother colony, but he has said that they all turn brown. He also says that this coral likes to encrust a large base before shooting up branches, eventually getting it's color back as it gets to a mini colony (like stated above). Mine frag is still pretty brown, and I have mine half way up my tank, also under t5 lighting, didn't think it was worth putting up a photo of mine.

 

[mylittlejade]

^^^nice!!! That is such a good looking colony and I can't wait for my small frag to turn into this.

Bryan

 

[Csreef]

The Rainbow also likes plenty of flow. Not direct, but offset. That has worked well for me. Also, a little extraa potassium .

 

[musiccitycoatcheck]

do you have any high end zoa's

 

[Zack]

That's a great pic goody. That is a nice sized colony.

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[All Delight]

That's looking really good Darrell, looks like its working on some branches too.

Thanks!

Lookin sexy all delight

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Thanks!

+1 to that. Wait... It's missing a branch

haha yeah I wonder why...

 

[All Delight]

I have heard a few people say that it's the same as avengers that vivid bought it from reef raft, any truth to this? Looking at the vivid colony on vivids site I can see how they kind resemble each other but not really. Looking at any other vivid colony I don't think they look alike and if anything vivids reminds me of ultimates rainbow. Actually they look a lot alike. Even both have the same issue with being tough to color up.

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I have the RR Avengers, I don't think they look alike.