Chromis’s 90g Acropora tank

[Chromis]

The waiting game... a couple Neptune’s wild(?) acros that I’ve been holding onto for 10 months now. One is a brown bonsai with green polyps that I just liked the shape of. It is finally showing a hint of color after all this time. I waited almost as long for the valida to the right if it to come into full color potential, and put them next to each other in the new tank in case something would transfer. I have no idea if there is such thing as transferable blue zooxanthellae or pigment enzymes, but if there is, then colored corals should go next to brown ones! The blue one looks almost the same as 10 months ago (just blah).

Then here are two more Neptune wild corals that look pretty good, one is like a red devil Nasuta and the other is like an Aussie highlighter. Both are growing really slowly. The Aussie has a cool blue base but right now it’s covered with new green branching tips so it will need to grow out a ways to see that nice two-tone effect.

This is @tankguy ‘s CB purple fusion, it has a crazy contrasting neon green growth ring and lots of PE. It will be interesting to see how it changes as it grows.

OP is the only coral the looks the same in whites or blues...

Fox Flame grows fast, Fox burnin banana does not

Miyagi tort is getting baked with too much light and the nice neon green went pale. It’s growing like a birdsnest, branches going in random directions and intersecting, maybe it’s strategy is to shade itself everywhere...

 

[euod]

The wild Aussie look normal and vibrant to me. You got it to encrust and that is a great start. I am on the hand don't want my sps to grow fast because I would have to provide more nutrients and prune more . For this reason I grow only Aussie sps and keep angels and butterflyfish

 

[xcaret]

I like those montis, going to look great once fully grown, red green orange plates!

 

[tankguy]

Corals are looking nice.

 

[Ibn]

Everything looks like they're growing well.

 

[OnTheReef]

Really looking good! I especially love the blue and green colony near bottom of the second picture, just amazing!

 

[Chromis]

PC Rainbow (@dswong01 frag swap) is one of few corals I’ve had that didn’t spend a lot of time encrusting before growing vertically... I could swear 2x in size...

 

[Chromis]

Got my clownfish some octospawn to give them a change of scenery from the old overgrown frogspawn:

 

[Chromis]

Orange digitata is the only SPS I have that can survive on a zoa rock.

 

[Coral reefer]

How much do you like your miyagi tort? Been growing out a piece from the swap in my frag tank, and am ready to put it in display... maybe. I really only have space for one more acro before I start booting things for "cooler" other things... and I already have a cali tort... pretty similar?

 

[Reefatosis]

Nice display chromis.....those M.caps are gonna look great underneath your rockwork!

 

[RandyC]

How much do you like your miyagi tort? Been growing out a piece from the swap in my frag tank, and am ready to put it in display... maybe. I really only have space for one more acro before I start booting things for "cooler" other things... and I already have a cali tort... pretty similar?

Here's a pic of my miyagi tort. It's nice, but I think there are cooler things. [emoji6]

 

[Chromis]

How much do you like your miyagi tort? Been growing out a piece from the swap in my frag tank, and am ready to put it in display... maybe. I really only have space for one more acro before I start booting things for "cooler" other things... and I already have a cali tort... pretty similar?

Funny you ask because I just relegated most of mine to the tank bottom. Partly to make space for “cooler” acros and also because it was getting baked in 300 PAR (the green turned white) and I wanted to try to bring the green back with lower light.

Miyagi tort has a gnarly shape that little fish love to hide in. It would probably hold up to your big tangs.

 

[RandyC]

Funny you ask because I just relegated most of mine to the tank bottom. Partly to make space for “cooler” acros and also because it was getting baked in 300 PAR (the green turned white) and I wanted to try to bring the green back with lower light.

Miyagi tort has a gnarly shape that little fish love to hide in. It would probably hold up to your big tangs.

Mine grows weird too. Thought it was just mine.

 

[Chromis]

Nice display chromis.....those M.caps are gonna look great underneath your rockwork!

I wanted a bunch of colors intertwined with red, green, purple, orange, starburst orange/yellow cap, and encrusting pink/green, red/blue, and rainbow montis. I may regret the encrusters later since they are harder to remove.

 

[Flagg37]

I wanted a bunch of colors intertwined with red, green, purple, orange, starburst orange/yellow cap, and encrusting pink/green, red/blue, and rainbow montis. I may regret the encrusters later since they are harder to remove.

That’s a lot. You’re making your own rainbow.

 

[Chromis]

Walt Disney starting to outgrow the “green” phase. Hopefully more color as it grows out?

 

[RandyC]

Walt Disney starting to outgrow the “green” phase. Hopefully more color as it grows out?

Yours has a ton more purple than mine. I have a mish-mash of light green, dark green, a little purple and maybe a tiny bit of blue.

 

[Chromis]

@RandyC I didn’t even know WDs could get the dark green hue along with purple. They do seem to get new colors as they grow, it will be interesting to compare again in a few months time! I’m pretty happy with the purple-green contrast even if it always stays that way but would be thrilled to see some orange or pink corallites as it grows out.

 

[Chromis]

Mine grows weird too. Thought it was just mine.

Yea that’s one of the reasons I like miyagi tort, it doesn’t grow in a predictable symmetry like other acroporas. The branches are thick enough and fuse into each other that I think it might survive in Mikes tank. I have other acros with skinny delicate branches that even my chromises will break when I scare them while taking photos from above the tank.