The Acro Thread

DD had some real nice sarmentosa colonies for a while, super light blue with glowing red polyps...price tag was too much for me.

I love wild acros cuz you can literally put them at the waters surface in front of an mp10 on full reef crest and they're happy as can be.

 

Tyree Pink Lemonade. There appears to be different strains of Pink Lemonade, some more yellow other more green (even when considering lighting). Pink Lemonade is a Nasuta I believe but that is up for debate. Every healthy colony I have seen has exceptional PE. Check out the link below, it's pretty interesting regarding where the original colony appeared.

http://www.reeffarmers.com/limitedpinklemonadeacro.htm

My frag is about 4 months now. High light, mod to higher flow surges. Loves to be feed. Ca 420, Alk 8.6-9, Mag 1460, Temp 79, Sg 1.024-1026 depending on my ATO mood. Seems like the larger the colony gets the more red/pink the polyps. Mine are just starting to turn.

 

Less talkie, more pictures

Gonzo's Yellow Mamba:

DSC_3908 by Hunter Hammond, on Flickr

The original WT* from Gonzo, before Vic acquired it from him and named it:

DSC_3881 by Hunter Hammond, on Flickr

Reef Raft Pink Floyd:

DSC_3898 by Hunter Hammond, on Flickr

Reef Raft Redemption:

DSC_3921 by Hunter Hammond, on Flickr

Reef Raft unreleased:

DSC_3963 by Hunter Hammond, on Flickr

Vivid's ultimate purple cap:

DSC_3911 by Hunter Hammond, on Flickr

WWC something or other. Originated at RAP OC 2013 before they named it.

DSC_3902 by Hunter Hammond, on Flickr

Lastly, for now; Vivid's rainbow delight. This one is tough and requires a lot of patience. I've grown it well for over 2 years, but just now am I starting to get color out of it.

DSC_3992 by Hunter Hammond, on Flickr

 

Oh we're going to talk Hunter! Sigh RR, well dang!

 

You still need to make you're way up here! I could give you a tour of 3-4 other tanks in town which would blow you away too.

 

Oh I would love that, I just need to make it happen. You have some pieces you do not see a lot of around these here parts.

 

Here's my red planet, bonsai acro and some green no names. Here you go Corailline

 

Green tabling acro that the plug fell over and it took off the way it is shown.


I got this Green blue tort as a completely browned out piece. To my surprise it has taken off and colored up quite nicely. It's about to start poking the zoa colony I have next to it.


This was a single piece branching montipora that I shattered by accident trying to cut the stem of the plug I came on. I "planted" the little pieces in the rock and they just took off. I also put the plug with the base of the coral on it. That also started to grow out branches.

Here's some of my SPS after getting my tank finally under control and going back into SPS. Nothing spectacular like some of the tanks out there, but I can say I'm pretty proud of it given my work schedule.

 

^ I would be proud too, those are awesome sps.

My tank is next to my couch in the LR (living room, not live rock). I love the automation with tanks today. You want reef crest, you got it. You want a cloudy day with lightening you got it.

Got to go, I should probably turn down the reef crest mode.

 

Your second acro looks more like a stag than a tort to me, not sure which stag though