Is this Acropora as unusual as it seems to me?

[MitchReef]

This was October 11, 2010.

The frag was broken from the mother on Oct 10. That's about the most PE I've gotten in a pic yet.

 

[MitchReef]

Here is a quick shot that I just took through the glass. Not the greatest picture, but it shows the orange color.

 

[Dave3112]

Thats not a slimer for sure. The coralite as well as the polyp structure is wrong for a slimer. It's a great looking piece though!

 

[MitchReef]

Thanks Dave. It was a real find methinks!

 

[MitchReef]

I moved it up to brighter lighting today and snapped a pic just for update.

It is losing the green, except for a VERY faint green sheen

 

[MitchReef]

I really wish this one photographed better. It's one of those that is really tough to get a good shot of, but here's today.

It's been in my tank for 5 months now and is just getting more Orange as it goes on!

 

[Troylee]

My guess is that when happy and healthy it will be green and pink... My shortcake looked just like that when it came in and took about a month to color up but it did... We obviously know what the shortcake looks like... Keep us updated with pics I would love to see how it turns out...

 

[MitchReef]

Well, it's been FIVE MONTHS now......It came from a nice orange mini-colony...

 

[Troylee]

Got a pic of the original colony???? Maybe it's from figi and never will color up... Some just stay like that... It's cool looking right now but I think it has more potential for color myself...

 

[MitchReef]

I don't have a colony picture unfortunately and I wish you could see it in person....ask Akabryanhall or any of the others around here. Most everybody around here knows my SPS's. It's ORANGE!!!!

 

[akabryanhall]

I'll vouch for it. That thing looks much brighter than the pictures show!

 

[MitchReef]

Like I said, it really doesn't photo well.....

 

[akabryanhall]

Lol I don't think there are many reefers that can get sps colors like senor meetch

 

[Troylee]

It lOoks orange in the pic I'm not doubting that I just think it has way more potential... I don't own the piece what's your thoughts is that the best it's gonna get or you thinking it's gonna get more color???

 

[LILBUDDHA]

I wonder if it is the same as my Orange Sherbert table ? I didn't think a sublatata was a table coral . I guess names can be the same but my frag came from Oculus? via a local AC store . It is indeed orange and has as shade of light green on the bottom . It fell into another coral so I mounted it hence the burnt tips . Now i see green all over it . HMMM

 

[MitchReef]

Yeah, it really did green out on you.....Sux big time....It should heal, but it may take a long time. I had a rouge mille that was brown when I got it, and it took nearly a year to get it colored up....then it colored with a vengence.....

 

[Reef UP]

It's nice whatever it is I'd take a frag for sure as for the red turf algae my yellow tangs and my scopus tang loves it when I get a little on a frag plug fwiw

 

[VegasRick]

Have you tried urchins or the mexican turbos? I had some start in and added a couple of ea in short time it was gone. Not sure which did it

 

[LILBUDDHA]

Yeah, it really did green out on you.....Sux big time....It should heal, but it may take a long time. I had a rouge mille that was brown when I got it, and it took nearly a year to get it colored up....then it colored with a vengence.....

Funny thing thing is when I look at it with my eyes it's orange as can be . My led's are set to 19.5 k . I have a small milli or protsrata nub that beats this one by a mile with yellow tips and a lemon lime ring on the base. So I stand corrected . Sublata's do table but in a circular pattern. So they may be the same.
Gotta love sdmas .. A Veron's online .

Acropora subulata

 

[wakeboardgeek]

Yup, my entire display tank is overrun. It is in a very sparce point right now. It seems to almost go away about every year or so, then it will come back and completely carpet every rock. VERY aggravating. I would take every rock out and blowtorch them all if it weren't for the colonies so very encrusted to many of my rocks. This stuff really is a plague.

I usually either affix frags to brand new tiles / plugs or scrape and scrub the plugs before anybody gets a frag from me. I also alert them to scrape ANY of it that they see on the plugs. It's like my tank has herpes, and I want to be responsible about it.

I was plagued with the turf algae. Read and had good luck with Mexican Turbo Snails. They seemed to cure the turf algae. I still have a couple if you need to borrow them Mitch.