Oh damn. I liked those.
DBTC: Rainbow Pocillopora (NanoCrazed)
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Oh damn. I liked those.
NanoCrazed
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At some point, i will get off my lazy butt and migrate this to barcode. Hah. I'm sure inam still running DOS 3.0 somewhere
max_nano
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If you are going to be in SF I can cut a piece. My “frag” (colony) has started to encrust the rock and seems settled.
@NanoCrazed i think it’s around 200-250 par so you think it’ll start showing some other color? I might try some frags in different lighting to see what it does
NanoCrazed
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If you wanna head towards my end, gimme a ping and will make a piece for ya as well. That's what I like to see -- DBTC that cover both ends of the bay!
NanoCrazed
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At higher PAR more of the pinks will come out -- and you'll also get why it earns the name rainbow poci...
. not pot of gold, though.... At lower PAR will be toxic green \ yellow...
Mozby
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Thanks Vince and Max! I’ll ping one of you when I can firm up plans to head up or down, whichever comes first. Cheers!
I had a huge green pocillopora colony before... and I didn’t do dbtc but did PIF where I gave out many frags of it. Eventually got rid of it when I modified my scape, but have always been intrigued by a “rainbow” variety of pocillopora.
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NanoCrazed
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Rainbow is worth it! Enough so that I DBTC it... hah.
But will let some of the other folks on the chain comment on their evaluation...
I have a pink poci here still... been pretty ho hum. but the rainbow despite taking up so much room, I still cling onto and would want it back if I lost it.
sfsuphysics
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Not part of the DBTC, but at a pre-pandemic frag swap I picked up a piece of pocci, it initially had that dark pink/purple with a tiny bit of green and when I say tiny I mean you might as well say it had one color. After a few months though it had a fairly insane color shift to green/yellow, which I've had this variant before way in the past (I want to say back in the metal halide days), so yeah YMMV on what color your pocci ends up as
It's a fun coral, and one of the few that can sexually reproduce in a tank. I did see a few comments about some popping up here and there in the tank. Great coral for a "chaotic" reef, where you just want to let things go "naturally"
It's a fun coral, and one of the few that can sexually reproduce in a tank. I did see a few comments about some popping up here and there in the tank. Great coral for a "chaotic" reef, where you just want to let things go "naturally"
max_nano
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I can also make frags of this in SF. Just give me a heads up so I can let it heal a bit to be safe
thesassyindian
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thesassyindian
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You didn't look at both my pics... that's just the rock from my 40 that I transfered to the new tank.
NanoCrazed
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I must've have done something wrong... very few spawns over the years just bigger and bigger mother colony
thesassyindian
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Oh yeah my bad
Glad that's "normal" behavior.And since all of those spawns and the huge mother colony (top right) are in a tiny 13.5gal tank, my Alk and Ca consumption are insane!
NanoCrazed
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When 99% of my mother colony died off , my alk spiked at previous dosing levels. So whenyou guys remove pocis, keep an eye on you alk tobadjust dosing as needed
NanoCrazed
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But then again my mother colony was almost 9" wide