Got Rainbow *******?

SDguy · Jul 2, 2010

Nice coral. Does it get contrasting eyes? I can't really tell from the pics...

cjtabares · Jul 2, 2010

Wow amazing coral, hopefuly I will have this in my tank some day

soccerbag · Jul 2, 2010

SDguy said:
Nice coral. Does it get contrasting eyes? I can't really tell from the pics...

Hard to say Peter. My piece is about 1.75" around at this point and just has one pronounced eye. There are 6 more forming so it will be interesting to see what they look like as they form completely. I'll post a pic or two as we go.

Reefhabit · Jul 3, 2010

Well it is coloring up just like Tat's colony until they lost the whole thing. Luckily I bought half of the colony before it died. You really need to wait until you get mature growth for the rainbows to come out.

sexycorals said:
it still look like nothing special yet in my system.. ... but urs does look nice. wonder if others u sold to are colored up like urs.

sexycorals · Jul 3, 2010

Hahaha.. U know I'm an impatient guy.. Maybe il buy ur colored up colony. :-)

Reefhabit said:
Well it is coloring up just like Tat's colony until they lost the whole thing. Luckily I bought half of the colony before it died. You really need to wait until you get mature growth for the rainbows come out.

Reefhabit · Jul 3, 2010

It will get more contrasting eyes once it grows out some. When Tat first got this echino in their shop me and my buddies thought it was Pink ******* or Vivid echino or something similar. After a month or so the thing started to color morph into different color eyes and rainbow skin. Eyes started off green, then pink and green, and then the mature eyes started to take on more rainbow colors along with the skin around it. Skin starts to turn hot pink, red, orange, yellow, blue, and green. Their colony was pretty amaizing when it was fully colored up.

SDguy said:
Nice coral. Does it get contrasting eyes? I can't really tell from the pics...

Reefhabit · Jul 3, 2010

I don't even know what a Pinkalicious looks like. Photo please! I have another type of pink echino that I got that has different color eyes.

soccerbag said:
No, not at all. Pinkalicious is much more pink and each eye seems to have a different color (awesome piece that I dont haver yet). The eyes on the Rainbow ******* are just that. Multi colored and incredible looking. Fast grower IMO. But both are AWESOME!!!

SDguy · Jul 3, 2010

Reefhabit said:
It will get more contrasting eyes once it grows out some. When Tat first got this echino in their shop me and my buddies thought it was Pink ******* or Vivid echino or something similar. After a month or so the thing started to color morph into different color eyes and rainbow skin. Eyes started off green, then pink and green, and then the mature eyes started to take on more rainbow colors along with the skin around it. Skin starts to turn hot pink, red, orange, yellow, blue, and green. Their colony was pretty amaizing when it was fully colored up.

Sounds gorgeous!! Definitely keep a photo journal going of yours to show the progress!