Finally got a Oregon tort!

[Tacostandguy]

I can cross this one of the list! Now I need to find a Cali tort haha

 

[Tacostandguy]

Any keeping tips? Can’t wait for it to grow out!

 

[adtravels]

Easy coral, fastest grower for me, likes led and T5. Par in the 350 range high flow.

 

[Mattrg02]

I’ve got one. Grows slowly but keeps an insanely blue blue, looks like a fake coral sometimes. Polyps out all of the time which are also brilliant blue.

I have it in high flow and right under a hydra26hd.

 

[Oshengems]

Top 3 sps for me, I have the same In several locations on my tank i would say the one mid-top looks better than the top or low, the blue is deeper than the top one it is more purple with green polyps but it was getting blasted with light then the bottom one is blue but not as bright. Also the mid-top one is in a are where it’s getting hit with a lot of random mid-heavy flow its a swirl in that area

 

[Oshengems]

Here’s a pic of the mid one

 

[FarmerTy]

High flow, high light (400 par). It's slow at first to grow but once it hits the size of a fist, can grow super quick.

I frag mine constantly.

Congrats on the beautiful frag!

It's top 5 for me, and I have over 130 different types of acros. Everybody needs a piece of this in their tank. Straight classic!

 

[jda]

High light and flow for me too. Once it gets going, I find it to be a really good grower if you can keep from fragging it all of the time.

There is a reason that after two decades it is still expensive (somewhat) and in high demand... awesome coral.

 

[TMB]

I too had been looking for this coral for some time, and was holding out for the real deal. I think I finally found one a few weeks ago!
Awesome piece!

Congrats on your score @Tacostandguy !

 

[TMB]

Wow, the picture I inserted wasn't that big before I posted it!?!? Sorry for the now crappy pic.

 

[Tacostandguy]

High flow, high light (400 par). It's slow at first to grow but once it hits the size of a fist, can grow super quick.

I frag mine constantly.

Congrats on the beautiful frag!

It's top 5 for me, and I have over 130 different types of acros. Everybody needs a piece of this in their tank. Straight classic!

Beautiful colony! And agreed, I know it’s just a 3/4”-1” frag but I can’t stop staring at how deep blue it is.

 

[FarmerTy]

Beautiful colony! And agreed, I know it’s just a 3/4”-1” frag but I can’t stop staring at how deep blue it is.

Thanks! That's a 7 year old colony that gets fragged monthly almost.

The OBT and the green slimer you can see across the house. Pictures will never capture it but its a super bold blue. The rest of my corals I have to walk up close to see their beauty. Makes me appreciate the across the room good looks of the OBT.

 

[Tacostandguy]

Top 3 sps for me, I have the same In several locations on my tank i would say the one mid-top looks better than the top or low, the blue is deeper than the top one it is more purple with green polyps but it was getting blasted with light then the bottom one is blue but not as bright. Also the mid-top one is in a are where it’s getting hit with a lot of random mid-heavy flow its a swirl in that area

Thank you for this tip! I want to retain the most blue possible, and was wondering what the best placement was.

 

[Tacostandguy]

Wow, the picture I inserted wasn't that big before I posted it!?!? Sorry for the now crappy pic.

No problem, I was having the same issue when posting pictures on the app, either that or they wouldn’t get posted at all [emoji53]

 

[Oshengems]

High flow, high light (400 par). It's slow at first to grow but once it hits the size of a fist, can grow super quick.

I frag mine constantly.

Congrats on the beautiful frag!

It's top 5 for me, and I have over 130 different types of acros. Everybody needs a piece of this in their tank. Straight classic!

This is a nice colony!!!

Like a few suggested here it is a fairly slow grower until it reaches a certain thickness I’ve noticed in the ones I have. My first frag was a slim branch which did not grow but it encrusted just a bit but was clearly getting thick but took a long time, I got a bigger piece from the same person multi branch and thick trunk once it settled it just took off that’s the pic I posted earlier it started creating new branches fast. The top one was doing well until about a month ago I bleached it with too much light and a few parameters swings but the mid-top Remained intack maybe because it was was bigger/healthier better flow than the other 2.

Oregon is a must have in anyone’s sps tank pictures dull these out that blue is eye catching when I’m the middle of oranges and greens

 

[pdxmonkeyboy]

they grow soooooo slow.

there was a good size size colony on my lfs last week. maybe fist sized.. they wanted $400 (which was a good price for sure) it was gone the next day.