Show me no name Tenuis

[Faurek]

Hi, the tenuis bug is biting me now. I normally like old school corals but I'm really liking Tenuis. I find homewrecker and WD kinda overrated reef bums jacks rainbow is pretty cool and I find that I like no named tenuis more.
Show me your no name and possibly their progression.

 

[Om84]

I also love old school SPS. I wasn’t a big fan of tenuis before but there’s definitely something there. I wish we didn’t have designer names but that is another topic. Tenuis in general are beautiful!

 

[Faurek]

That baby blue is amazing, kinda like deep water acro type of blue, what lights are you running and do you find the need for high nutrients?
Regarding names, I hate it as well, specially since if you don't buy from the source it might be an expensive fake of a stupidly expensive coral.

 

[Om84]

This was a piece I acquired from Adam @Battlecorals as part of his blue light specials. It’s interesting, for me tenuis have done better with slightly higher nitrates and phosphates. My nitrates are typically 10 - 20 ppm. My phosphates are 0.15 - 0.20. I have ATI Stratons and Reefi Unos.

 

[Faurek]

This was a piece I acquired from Adam @Battlecorals as part of his blue light specials. It’s interesting, for me tenuis have done better with slightly higher nitrates and phosphates. My nitrates are typically 10 - 20 ppm. My phosphates are 0.15 - 0.20. I have ATI Stratons and Reefi Unos.

Thanks

 

[billyocean]

Heres a few...Most started off with little to no color.

 

[REEFRIED!]

Just a baby.

 

[SeaDweller]

Hi, the tenuis bug is biting me now. I normally like old school corals but I'm really liking Tenuis. I find homewrecker and WD kinda overrated reef bums jacks rainbow is pretty cool and I find that I like no named tenuis more.
Show me your no name and possibly their progression.

a fully colored up WD is NOT overrated, have you seen one in real life that's at its best?

 

[Faurek]

dang you people are coloring up those tenuis really good

 

[Faurek]

a fully colored up WD is NOT overrated, have you seen one in real life that's at its best?

I do understand that people want to hype those corals and I haven't seen in person a WD, my LFS actually has one for 45 euros for sale that apparently is a steal, and the best WD I ever seen on the internet was here from a user with halides, yes it's amazing. But you pay a lot of money for a coral that might not color up the way you want considering how much variation there seem to be. I have seen some beautiful no named tenuis from users and I find them really good and as good as the named ones, plus what I want is the journey of getting the coral and see what happens with the color.
Look at the ones already posted here, I would take any of these before a named one, I dont need to brag a name, I want beautiful corals.

 

[SeaDweller]

I do understand that people want to hype those corals and I haven't seen in person a WD, my LFS actually has one for 45 euros for sale that apparently is a steal, and the best WD I ever seen on the internet was here from a user with halides, yes it's amazing. But you pay a lot of money for a coral that might not color up the way you want considering how much variation there seem to be. I have seen some beautiful no named tenuis from users and I find them really good and as good as the named ones, plus what I want is the journey of getting the coral and see what happens with the color.
Look at the ones already posted here, I would take any of these before a named one, I dont need to brag a name, I want beautiful corals.

I do agree with you there are non-named tenuis that look great, and some better than "named" acros/tenuis. However, you made a statement that WD is overrated, when in fact it's one of the prettiest tenuis, let alone acros, that we have in the hobby. Big R WD is hands down one of the classics, if one is diligent and lucky enough to pull the colors out of it. It's one of my absolute favorites in my tank.

I agree that a name doesn't do much more, especially in adding a "value" but it is what it is.

 

[robanister]

 

[spsick]

The OG plain blue tip Tenuis that was everywhere 8-10 years ago. So electric!

 

[ryshark]

The best PE I’ve gotten out of a no name Tenuis. This was many years ago under halides before Tenuis were popular. They were cheap back then, I think because it’s the LEDs nowadays that really show the colors.

 

[spsick]

The best PE I’ve gotten out of a no name Tenuis. This was many years ago under halides before Tenuis were popular. They were cheap back then, I think because it’s the LEDs nowadays that really show the colors.

That looks like the old ORA Chips acro! Not sure if it was a tenuis but that sure looks identical.

 

[ryshark]

That looks like the old ORA Chips acro! Not sure if it was a tenuis but that sure looks identical.

I remember Chips. This one was definitely not ORA, it was sold as a Tenuis, but I guess who knows for certain

 

[billyocean]

a fully colored up WD is NOT overrated, have you seen one in real life that's at its best?

I've seen a few better colored but this one is good.

 

[SeaDweller]

I've seen a few better colored but this one is good.

see what I mean? I mean it's a bit hard to tell from this pic (may be my monitor) but yellow polyps, green skin and pink/purple radial corallites... not overrated. Takes skill to get those BigR colors out of them.

 

[Kasrift]

I love "no namers". I live near AquaSD and love grabbing things there. Since you want to see progression and tenuis, here is a tenuis I bought as a "Blue Mammoth" from them for $20 or so.

Also have some other non tenuis that are from them that have a sweet progression.

I bought it as plain blue. It quickly developed purples and teal colors.

 

[Faurek]

The best PE I’ve gotten out of a no name Tenuis. This was many years ago under halides before Tenuis were popular. They were cheap back then, I think because it’s the LEDs nowadays that really show the colors.

Fuzziest thing I've seen wow.