Is this German blue polyp acro?

[zheka757]

Correction, I ment to say German blue polyp*

 

[jsker]

Very nice.

 

[jda]

It is close.

I have been looking for the real-deal ORA one for quite some time. Few are likely to give you any credit unless you can trace it back to ORA somehow. I have not had much luck... mostly rumors.

It is cool in any case.

 

[spsick]

Looks closer to anything I’ve seen in the last 10 years to it!

 

[Macdaddynick1]

Only if it speaks German. Awesome looking piece.

 

[DIYreefer]

I had one many years ago and I would say yours is very, very close. It may very well be but who knows...

 

[zheka757]

i picked it about a year ago from local store, but so far i haven't had much luck in polyp extension or growth, this stick is just getting thicker and incrusting so far. but not spreading any new branches, i just recently broke the encrusted base off and start over, see what happens.

 

[zheka757]

Very nice.

thank you for fixing my thread! and posting it where it belongs.

 

[zheka757]

It is close.

I have been looking for the real-deal ORA one for quite some time. Few are likely to give you any credit unless you can trace it back to ORA somehow. I have not had much luck... mostly rumors.

It is cool in any case.

what do you look for in "read deal" one?

 

[Perry]

Wow,
This is one of those rare gems, and has been on my list for 15+ years!
Yours is very close, I would get in touch with ORA, perhaps maybe they can confirm, and if so, it would be great to get a piece going in their farm. Otherwise, it's speculation.
Cheers

 

[Graffiti Spot]

I remember when I had a piece it was a lot more of a smooth skin acro than what this pic shows. Coralites were spaced out and polyps on them tucked in against the branch on a very unique round coralite with no lip.
That pic could be a divaricata that has grown a little funny trying to acclimate and grow. Or could be a nasuta which is the most common acro people try to sell as a ora gbp that I have seen. Still the polyps look amazing on it!

 

[zheka757]

I sent ORA email waiting for reply from them.

 

[zheka757]

This is what ORA had to say!

 

[zheka757]

Old thread by me, this is how this coral looks now, it took it for ever to grow, now it's doing fine under metal halides. Last picture is with orange filter,
Is this german blue polyp acro?

 

[DIYreefer]

It very well could be. I've come to realize that some of the old corals that were once prevalent in the hobby but seem to have faded away may actually still be alive and well, just under a different name, and different appearance due to generally drastically different lighting than what was the norm 10 years ago.

For instance, about a year ago I acquired a frag of "pearlberry" that once received, looked nothing like the ORA pearlberry that I had a decade ago. It just didn't have that pearlescence that the original had. Fast forward to a couple of months ago and I switched up my lighting to include metal halide like I've used in the past. Now it looks more like the original pearlyberry every day.

I plan to start a thread about it soon comparing what I have now vs. a definitive ORA pearlberry that I had a long time ago (I found an old picture in my photobucket account that I took when I first got the frag, still on the notorious ORA plug). My camera skills weren't all that great back then, unfortunately. But the similarity is definitely worth noting, and I'm starting to believe that the frag that I acquired a year ago is in fact, an ORA pearlberry after all.

 

[spsick]

Still looks like RRC pink caddy to me, which could very well be as it looks very similar to the German blue from my memory.