Top 10 SPS?

[mojo]

yea I agree, I have read some issues with many corals not keeping the same color as the original. But I agree. Nice suggestion.

Mojo~

 

[myzislow]

In order for an acro to be on the top 10 for me, the color has to be consistent or proven in other reef hobbyists tanks and it would be the only ten acros I would keep in my tank. I saw sotr mille mentioned a couple of times. anybody has photos besides the vendor's?
here's an ice fire pic.

yeah, pretty much this^^^^ I see a lot of corals mentioned that haven't even been around enough to be considered IMO. Sure they look good in vendor pics, but the proof is the pudding once you grow it out in your own tank.

 

[Murfman]

In no particular order;
Red Planet
Blue Serpent
Tweety
ORA Crayola Plana
Cali Tort
Garf Bonzai
Stinger Lokani
Tierra Del Fuego
Pearlberry
Atlantis Bonzai

 

[brahm]

This is now #1 on my list. Truly, one of a kind acro.

I got something very similar.. maybe a little more interesting imop From Atlantis. (note the purple tint to the polyps)

List of 10 acros that I dig, maybe not my top 10, but the first 10 that come to mind.

Leprechaun Beard (especially when it displays the red rings old one did.. current one does yet.)
Copps Bonasi

Copps on the bottom Lep on the top.


Red Dragon - lost it getting another (sigh)

Scripps Milli (or a bubble gum milli)

(pink and green blob with the hint of blue in the bottom right of the photo.. I recently fragged off the branches and attached them to a new plug.

Tongs Sapphire Milli (bummed I lost mine, need to get another frag)

When it's really happy it gets very hairy and the slight silver on the tips gives it this amazing silver on blue look.. (I don't have photos with full pe though :( )


This thing (Got it wild, fragged it, sold it.. lost what I had left, don't remember who I sold it to. :( )

Garf Bonsai
I can't get this thing to hold it's colour for long, but man it looks good in other peoples tanks.. at least it's growing for now.

Copps neon green efflo

My Blue Rim & My Purple Rim efflos

(one on the left is bleached and coming back from aefw, but it had a blue rim, as apposed to the normal purple

ORA Bellina or better yet "my green polyp, purple acro"

- Not the best pic, lost the main colony this is all that's left and is growing back slowly.

My old belnia for reference (made the mistake of dipping it, and lost it)

 

[JimC]

1. Tyree Icefire
2. FF Snowcone Prostrata
3. Pink Lemonade
4. Purple Monster
5. Rommels Watermelon
6. Pink Lemonade
7. Oregon Tort
8. PC Rainbow
9. Paletta's Pink Tip
10. 30k Lokani
11. Upscales Microlados...haha, couldn't resist.

In no particular order, except Oregon Tort being my fav...

 

[myzislow]

My list of favorites I have

ORA dustins deepwater
30k lokani
ATL christmas mirabilis
DFS pink panther
Paletta's pink tip
Bubblegum Millepora
Rouge Millepora
Oregon Tort
Ponape Rainbow Acro
Crazy Blue Lokani I got at baymac:

 

[brahm]

Really dig that Lokani, white polyps in the blue tips make it.

 

[Graham's Aquaculture]

I bought this coral years ago. It gets slightly pink tips in my tank, but is no where as stunning as the original pic. I tried putting it in various lighting conditions, but I do not think it is possible to achieve those colors in captivity, or it is very difficult.

When I frag it I do not sell it under the original name because the colors do not compare. I think to do so would be misleading on my part. I do have a few other corals from that vendor purchased years ago that have some very nice colors, so I am not indicating that the pic is altered, but perhaps that is what it looked like when it came from the ocean, which is a set of conditions near impossible to achieve in our tanks at home.

Here are some Pics of the Tommny Knockers . you dont see it much so some might not know what it is. I have a small maybe 2 inch frag of this.

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these are not my pictures of course. They were taken from aquaholicswebsite. Where my frag came from.

 

[SteezySPS]

looks like a zeovit coral with the dark tips

 

[Graham's Aquaculture]

Agreed... especially with the pale, light colored polyps. it seems like such methods are the most successful at simulating the ULNS comparable to the ocean, however, perhaps with byproducts that are not so similar.

I do recall asking the vendor about their tank husbandry at the time, thinking zeovit or a similar method was used, and I am fairly confident they stated they did not use any such methods.

This is why I think it was a recently acquire wild colony when photographed... if not ULNS system to achieve such colors... then from the real ULNS system.

looks like a zeovit coral with the dark tips

 

[therman]

Original looks like a stressed bleached wild colony. Lost all of the "background color" from the zoox, and only the pigments remain. Same principle as zeovit (starve out the zooxanthellae), not my cup of tea.

 

[xcorallusx]

Ive got some tommy knockers, just now starting to take off, its still a yellow/green color but I think its about to get some crazy colors.

My top 10 that I have are

Pink Jade
HockeyPuck Acro
Green Hyancinth Acro
Ora Plum Crazy
Ultimates rainbow Stag
Pink Lemonade
Baby Blue Efflo
Pearlberry
Ora Purple Stylo
Jedi Mind Trick Monti

 

[SDguy]

I gotta say AquaSD's rainbow mille needs to be on an SPS top 10 list. It holds its amazing colors, even in my craptastic tank LOL

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[swannyson7]

Well aren't you humble? :tongue: Your tank is amazing Peter!

 

[SDguy]

Well aren't you humble? :tongue: Your tank is amazing Peter!

Thanks, but it's been pretty hard on SPS lately... overfeeding all sorts of fish :o

But hey, even in the nutrient soup that is currently my reef tank water, here is the mille frag... not bad, huh?

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[swannyson7]

Not too shabby at all! Is that a blueish rim on the new encrusting growth?

 

[SDguy]

I think it's just really light green, with blue LED mixed in. I'm just surprised that even at such a small size, you see the orange/peach tops, and green lower portion of the branches, yet orange/peach encrusting portion.

 

[brahm]

now on my ever growing list of corals I need to one day get from Peter. Added to the list of any coral that I may have owned at some point passed threw our mutual friends hands to you and while the rest of us killed it you some how kept it alive.

 

[SDguy]

now on my ever growing list of corals I need to one day get from Peter. Added to the list of any coral that I may have owned at some point passed threw our mutual friends hands to you and while the rest of us killed it you some how kept it alive.

Usually just barely by the skin of its teeth.. err, polyp LOL.