What Are Your Favorite Tabling Acros?

[Daved4]

My favorite one that I have would be this Tsa Bill Murray that I got as a small 1inch frag from Tck back in 2021. Man has it grown so amazingly. I'm currently hunting another talking acro.

 

[Joe462]

Thanks! I’ve researched which species table thinking it would help me when looking at online vendors. The issue is knowing what specific “designer acro” these vendors are selling when all they show is a small 3/4” - 1” frag along with the description of “acro” followed by “random dumb designer name” . So it can be hard to tell exactly based off of an image of a tiny frag. Unless finding online someone else with a fully grown out colony that’s posted pics of it online elsewhere of that specific one I can then cross reference it to for comparison, which is just more work on my end lol.

I wish vendors would be more descriptive when selling these things instead of just being so focused on actinic photos of 1” frags with the goofy designer names to sell them.

Easiest way is to just ask the vendor. What do you have as far as tabling acros?

 

[Joe462]

PC superman table

and if efflos count then BC efflo 2.0 was pretty cool in my tank

 

[happyhourhero]

Fwiw, on battlecorals site, you can toggle to just include species names or growth patterns. Click “enable no glitz”.

 

[McPuff]

I've got a few that are all pretty cool. PC Superman, $500 efflo, red planet, Quad color table, heartbreaker. Gonna be in trouble pretty soon as they are getting big.

 

[stephj03]

I did but I don't have a picture to share. It may be the ultimate table though, not sure why it's not more popular now? Good under blues and daylight and an awesome grower.

Sorry I didn't see that at the end of your post.

I feel less old now.

 

[Tamale]

Wouldn't it be nice if the photo posters responding to threads like this also noted the origin (seller) of the frags they're posting photos of? I only noted one such credit in this thread.

The issue is often these vendors don’t have them in stock/or from mother colonies. TSA is good about it (they do fresh cut frags). Best practice is to google the name! I generally find success doing that.

 

[Tamale]

My favorite one that I have would be this Tsa Bill Murray that I got as a small 1inch frag from Tck back in 2021. Man has it grown so amazingly. I'm currently hunting another talking acro.

This is the first time I’ve seen it grown out! Gorgeous! Can see why it’s usually priced so high haha

 

[Tamale]

PC superman table

and if efflos count then BC efflo 2.0 was pretty cool in my tank

Love that Superman! It’s on my list for sure!

 

[Tamale]

Fwiw, on battlecorals site, you can toggle to just include species names or growth patterns. Click “enable no glitz”.

I haven’t bought from BC before since they focus on acros but I’m getting sold on how awesome their store is. The fact you can pick between halide/LED/T5 grown corals is neat too.

 

[SPS2020]

BC A Fire Engine is a very fast growing red\pink table acro in my tank. I'll post a pic later.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

POTO boomerang is my favorite for sure.

 

[PeterC99]

 

[xiongsy]

Sounds like "tabling acros" is another term for milles?

 

[rossco]

Sounds like "tabling acros" is another term for milles?

Sometimes, but not always. Many other acros table too. Just for fun, ASD Rainbow Milli pictured.

 

[VR28man]

A thread after my own heart!

This one is particularly interesting:

For me it’s Efflos for sure. I finally have some-recently got all 3 that Battlecorals has to offer, but nothing much to show yet.

I also have Castells Banana Table which is just starting to plate out.

One of my favorites that I have had in the past was the Deuce Coupe , a wild one I lost a few years ago.

@rossco , what kind of lighting to you keep this under? I thought acros like that were relatively "deep water" species (as in lives at 20-40m or so and ~100 PAR).


However, most of the tabling acros like come from fairly shallow (0-10m) depths, or even intertidal (i.e. are exposed for a few hours a day). These include hyacinthus (Red Planet is one kind), efflo, and tenuis (Walt Disney is one of many kinds), and millepora (again many different kinds with many different names).

 

[rossco]

A thread after my own heart!

This one is particularly interesting:

@rossco , what kind of lighting to you keep this under? I thought acros like that were relatively "deep water" species (as in lives at 20-40m or so and ~100 PAR).

I was keeping that one at mid-level , about 250 or so PAR. It was doing great, until it didn’t. Such is the way with acros. Started as a chunky frag.

 

[SamsReef]

My Sweetheart tabling acro. I no longer have the mother colony (under Actinics)

but it is regrowing to be another heartbreaker (under full spectrum light)

 

[RussiReef]

All time classic table. Greg C efflo

 

[backbayreef]

My BC Aquaticman is still pretty small but it's growing very tight. So far, it's checking all the boxes in the color department and growth structure for me. I started with a super tiny frag. Initially just encrusting but now is growing off the edge of the rock.

PC Superman is also a killer table. I would really like to get that piece back again one day.

I have a PC Superman but it’s been encrusting the last 6mos. ugh

That’s a stunning Aquaticman - congrats!