Pectinia Show Off Thread

[nly04]

rainbow and space invader.

 

[Pico bam]

Here's mine, anybody know what the third one is called? Its like a rainbow w/o the red/orange

 

[littlebigreef]

Glad this thread got revived! I moved this past spring so the aquarium is a bit different but here’s the same colonies from post #13.

The tri color blue/blue/green is lower left. Tri color red/blue/green is to the right below the orange hammer. Quad color, red/green/blue/light blue, sorta blends in just in front of the watermelon chalice. I still have my space invader else where in thr

Quad color- this one I mentioned I had to triage because of RTN from a shipping injury. Fortunately the frags stabilized last year and are putting down a good amount of new tissue.

I’ll add the growth on these guys is different from that of space invader. Taking light, flow, etc into account these colonies seem to put down a more robust skeleton that cups vs the space invader which, in the same aquarium, seems to whirl with fan like projections.

@Pico bam pectinia, outside space invaders, haven’t been named from what I’ve seen. Generally when I hear people discuss them it’s always the number of colors.

 

[littlebigreef]

And some detailed pics of the tricolor pectinia. It’s def interesting to watch them grow as a colony as opposed to starting off with frags.

 

[ID-Reefer]

First Pectinia I’ve had. Found a nice sized one for what seemed like a good price. Placed in fairly low light and low flow on sand bed. No idea what version this is or if it has a name but seems like a nice specimen.

 

[DeniseAndy]

Nice size piece there.

 

[PeterC99]

Grown from a small frag

 

[littlebigreef]

Here’s an updated pic. Still have the same 4 from before and added another tri color with yellowish tissue. I’ve seen some other neat ones here and there over the last year but haven’t added any more. I’ve also trimmed these down a few times and now have multiple colonies going.

 

[juarec0201]

Here’s an updated pic. Still have the same 4 from before and added another tri color with yellowish tissue. I’ve seen some other neat ones here and there over the last year but haven’t added any more. I’ve also trimmed these down a few times and now have multiple colonies going.

Will they fight? I’ve seen some say yes and no. Haven’t found a whole lot of info about that.

 

[Pico bam]

Forgot I had this one

 

[littlebigreef]

Will they fight? I’ve seen some say yes and no. Haven’t found a whole lot of info about that.

Yeah I didn’t really know what to expect either. Not a whole lot of people keeping pectinia gardens. That being said I haven’t had issues with them stinging each other.

 

[Pico bam]

Will they fight? I’ve seen some say yes and no. Haven’t found a whole lot of info about that.

I've had multiple types touching at one point and they don't kill each other

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Got this guy ~2 weeks ago, wild caught so no special color morphs, though definitely doing great in my system!