What are your top 10 favorite Acropora right now?!

[ilikefish69]

I hear you. What you are saying is true.

Ok, so what are your top 10 daylight acros?

Charlie we need so many more people like you in this world. I love this comment so very much.

 

[Dburr1014]

Admittedly, I wasn’t expecting the classics to get so much attention in this thread! Nothing wrong with it, I just find peoples preferences interesting

Maybe I need to mature a bit more as a Reefer to be able to appreciate these daylight specimens / spectrum

I'm really not into the crazy names. Different vendors call the same coral different names, it's confusing and I can't keep track anyways.
I put coral in my tank and after a couple years I can't remember the name anyway.
I prefer more day light spectrum but I do go thru the whole sunrise/sunset, and do like the florescents during those times.

 

[Troylee]

Admittedly, I wasn’t expecting the classics to get so much attention in this thread! Nothing wrong with it, I just find peoples preferences interesting

Maybe I need to mature a bit more as a Reefer to be able to appreciate these daylight specimens / spectrum

Tried and true classics! We didn’t have leds or blue lights besides t5 or vho… the old school pieces looked great under 10k halides with vho actinics.

 

[Seancj]

Of course there are easily 10 amazing rainbow tenuis out there that would be in anyone's top ten. I'm really getting into the smooth skin/deep water acros and anacros.
*Not my pictures, graciously borrowed from google.*

 

[386reeftrader]

Admittedly, I wasn’t expecting the classics to get so much attention in this thread! Nothing wrong with it, I just find peoples preferences interesting

Maybe I need to mature a bit more as a Reefer to be able to appreciate these daylight specimens / spectrum

I think it more so has to do with the era in which many started this hobby. If you’ve kept and grown out corals in a warmer daylight spectrum I think you tend to appreciate those colors. Vendors, LFS, hobbyist used to all run warmer spectrum so that’s how you expected a coral to look.

Nowadays everything is sold and marketed under blue light so newer hobbyists are drawn to that style of lighting/corals and they expect them to look the same.

 

[Charlie the Reefer]

Charlie we need so many more people like you in this world. I love this comment so very much.

For sure! I think it’s very important to keep an open mind, especially in this hobby (if there is anything I have learned…)

 

[GuppyHJD]

Thank you for the thread. Unfortunately I have to google many of the names to understand what they might be. I sure hope someday the idea of naming a piece of coal has some standardization.

 

[DJF]

I’m a daytime guy and here are my favorites:

1. SCOP (yellow polyp/blue body 100% all time favorite)
2. Oregon Tort (the best blue)
3. Pink Floyd - dig the red polyp/yellow combo
4. Pink Cadillac- blue polyps
5. ASD mille- bright, beautiful
6. BigR WD- to put it plainly, a classic THE rainbow tenuis (if it isn’t bigr- it isn’t a wd)
7. Pearlberry- dig the blue contrasts
8. Rainbow Loom - green gold fading to pink/purple tips
9 bonsai- no coral like it
10 fox flame - cool yellow tip

Honorable mentions
- strawberry shortcake
-pink lemonade
-exquisita stag
-my awesome noname spath

 

[Someguyfromsc]

Mine would be the original wet thumbs TDF , wet thumbs MOP , jkr rainbow . Sc orange passion, rr USA Pink Floyd , rr USA wolverine . Asd rainbow milli . Tyree red dragon . Golden dragon, cherry bomb , and my always favorite pink lemonade . so many great acros . Sure this list is outdated but haven’t started collecting acros much after taking a 6 year break . But this list was fire 6 years ago lol

 

[hunterallen40]

1. BigR Walt Disney
2. JF Homewrecker
3. JF Foxflame
4. Pretty much any Speciosa
5. Pick your favorite bali lokani (some crazy rainbow stuff coming from there!)
6. Pick your favorite bali lorises (same as above)
7. Rainbow Splice
8. ORA Tricolor Valida (my colony really means something to me at this point, and I love the shape it has).
9. This maricultured colony of mine:

10. SBB Bling Bling

 

[billyocean]

I like all the classics and a lot of the aforementioned blue lighters. Sbb scooby doo and dragon Coaster are stunners. I find most enjoyment out of no namers just to see what they turn into. My tank is blue though. Some look much nicer under white like tort for sure

 

[mruggee]

Arc - black dragon
Strawberry shortcake
Peach giant
Princess peach
Green slimer
Crème de le creme

Also a big fan on Anaacropora

 

[Charlie the Reefer]

Thanks for all the responses everyone! IDC if the preference is old school or whatever. I find it fascinating what everyone prefers! It’s obviously a subjective topic

 

[biecacka]

There are plenty of new pieces that are nice. There is no doubt about that, I just 1) dont run a super blue tank, 2) have found that under all blue pictures Many of the corals look 90% or more similar. That is where it gets tricky and frustrating. Some of the pictures online are misleading to buyers in what the real colors are. therefore, you end up with 3-4 pieces that look identical in your tank. So, while I do enjoy some of crazy colored sticks- I prefer to enjoy them in someone else’s tank. Lol


corey

 

[PeterErc]

Ten favorite is hard. I have some memorable colonies that were grown out from frags. ORA blue and rose Mille, red planet, scrips, Christmas Mirabilis, Gomezi, torts, hoeksemai, granulosa, there’s ten but plenty more.
I reset the tank and starting over. Excited about some of the frags to see how they grow out.
TSA harvey wallbanger
TSA four loco
Tierra del Fuego
Green, purple slimer, purple in front of green, may grab blue as well.
Rr grape juice
Raspberry cheesecake
A bunch of cultured nubs that are coloring up.
ORA has some releases that are not on the website yet. I can’t remember all the names but the MIMF purple gem, scorchin torch and two more. Plus the rainbow stylo looked bad butt.

 

[ArtisticReef]

Hey everyone. I know there have been threads on this topic in the past, but recent ones have been species specific (i.e. tenuis) or started a long time ago /inactive.

So I just ask... Top 10 favorite acropora - it's totally subjective so I will not name criteria. Just simply what do you like? Can be because they're old school, nice-looking, hearty, rare, or whatever.

Here's mine!

TUSI Rainbow Granulosa
POTO Scorpion
BC Bellicose Trobairitz
POTO Enigma
RMF Red Devil Nasuta
SBB Prom Queen (CC Pink Highlighter?)
Bill Murray
POTO Endgame
SC Orange Passion
BKChem Creme de la Crème

Sorry if this thread is annoying

Would love to hear what other people are eyeing these days!

Charlie

Not annoying at all, but would have liked to see pictures.

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

Just listed and not ranked So many more but…

ORA Pearlberry
Garf Bonsai
Bali Grn Slimer
ReefGen Bluberry Fantasy
Oregon Tort
CC Pink Highlighter
LRO Tropicana Twist
Skinny Love
Purple monster
ASD Rainbow Milli

 

[Cichlid Dad]

For me also interesting would be what are your top 10 favorite DAYLIGHT acropora!
I am looking for daylight acros with nice colors.

I have a westside tort that looks awesome in daylight

 

[SaltCreepReef]

In no particular order:
BigR WD
JF Frankie’s Neophobia
RR rainbow loom
FHC sick twisted sister
TGC Acrolandia
Raspberry lemonade
BKChem Fruit Loops
CC Bahama Mama mille
Fulmer’s Flux capacitor
SCR Lazy Stripper

 

[Epic Aquaculture]

Always a fun topic! I’ve been in the hobby since 1991, so I love both old school corals as well as newer popular pieces. In no particular order I would have to include these in my top 10 -

RRC Rainbow Splice

Hung's Rainbow Explosion

EA Tropical Sunshine Hyper Intense Tenuis

Vivids Insanity

WWC King Fiji

CC Flaming Sunrise

EA Prestige Worldwide

BigR Walt Disney

OG RRU Angry Birds (not the one they sell now)

SBB Purplicious

Honorable Mention:

Vivids Confetti

TGC Inner Core

JF Homewrecker

BigR Candyland

BC Laser Melon

OG Oregon Tort

Bali Green Slimer (I know it's common, but when it gets to this size it's quite impressive!)