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Whoa... what is that?
 

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Whoa... what is that?

It's an all blue echinata with fluoro polyps. It was collected at 25mtrs with standard icefire pigmentation, blue/white with white polyps. Thought it would interest you guys to see how one off color variants come into existence most of the time - luck. I need to start giving bits to my mates to back it up in case my tank explodes or something lol.

Taken outside standing in the rain.....

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It's an all blue echinata with fluoro polyps. It was collected at 25mtrs with standard icefire pigmentation, blue/white with white polyps. Thought it would interest you guys to see how one off color variants come into existence most of the time - luck. I need to start giving bits to my mates to back it up in case my tank explodes or something lol.

Taken outside standing in the rain.....

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Yeah I was going to ask if your icefire just turned that color.
 

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Sweet random find. I believe its a tenuis? Correct me if I'm wrong please.
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PC Superman
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Another random tenuis find
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Millepora showing some potential
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Reef Pets "fire polyp" starting to color, above Vivid's Rainbow Delight
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Reef Pets "Ultra Violet" above Red Planet
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Fresh frag of ASD Rainbow Millepora (Colony is too large and close to the surface to get a good top down but is in the full tank top down shot - to the left side)
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what combo of t5s do you use?
Not sure on everyone else,

I'm currently running 6 blue+ with 2 purple+ on the 2 bulb channel of my ATI 8x54, supplemented by a 4' reefbrite tech strip. The tech strip is on 11 hours a day, blue + for 8.5 and purple plus 7.5 hours. This combo gives me great growth and color @ about 10-11" off the water surface. I've swapped out a p+ with coral+ and it worked well. Looks slightly better but a little more white. Seemed like i sacrificed overall color.

At one point i swapped a p+ for a Giesemann AquaBlue Plus and the color was outstanding and natural looking. Overtime it seemed like the color of my sticks slowly washed out, so i swapped back. A few weeks later all was back to normal. I may play around with some actinics when the time comes for new bulbs. Still going back and forth.
 

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