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Anyone got one, I think I might have inadvertently purchased one at the BACFM. The color is there, however the growth pattern is a little more compact than the simplexes I've seen.

Basically my question is, are their any other Acros. that have green swirling pigment?

Can simplexes have a more compact growth pattern?
 
So you picked up a compact growth 'deepwater' type acro with the dual colorations of the simplex?

You didn't pick up something like the royal plum acro. sp. instead did you?
 
Let me rephrase the "compact growth" statement, it seems like the coralites are not as long and skinny as the simplexes I've seen. The frag is about an inch long so it is hard to tell what it will turn out like. The majority of the coral is dark purple/brown, with green swirling at the base. I'll see if can shoot a picture that captures it.

Eric, I'll check out the "royal plum", thanks.


Also, is $25 a good price :D
 
Nope not the royal plum, the growth pattern looks similar to an elegans. Don't know if a simplex can have a similar pattern or not, I guess time will tell...


My lights come on in a few hours and I'll try and get a shot of it then, if I can get a decent shot.
 
I wish I could get a decent shot of it, I simply can't right now. After some research it looks like (according to Veron) elegans and simplex are very similar, so well see.

I like that Patrick, Tubeplex! I got it from "Toucan Moon" she (dunno her name) said she had no idea who she got it from, mebbie Greg, but when I asked him he got the look of terror so in the end it has no lineage. I will say it stood out to me and she said that it was not cheap at all. It was for me however.
 
ahh...There's no need for lineage IMO...as long as it looks cool and you like it..

dont get me wrong, its cool to know where your coral came from and all..but when lineage begins to drasticly affect price, it becomes a bit much. People who market corals are freekin genious buisness wise when they can take a nicely colored piece, give it a cool name with "LE" at the end, and charge x10 what they got it for. kinda how toyota took a handfull of their cars in japan and created Lexus...same cars, just with a few more bells and whistles...but x3 the price when compared equally to the japanese domestic market..

yet, as much as i dont want to pay $100 for a 1'' frag, if the colors right itll justify itself once it grows out.
 
Understand Patrick, however the grafted simplex is a one of a kind coral, nothing else (to my knowledge) like it exists in the hobby. Normally I really don't care that much, other than keeping track of lineage, but this one is a potential score!
 
wasnt the grafted simplex an accident? kinda like a cool freak of nature that worked out in our favor...if it turns out to be the GS, its one hell of a find...if not, it marks the birth of the TUBEPLEX..:D
 
yeah the story with the grafted simplex IIRC, was that two pieces were shipped in the same bag, and they fused together into one coral.

However that is the extent of my knowledge, hell I don't know what really makes that special really, because I've seen digitatas and caps grow together as one too :D
 
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yeah the story with the grafted simplex IIRC, was that two pieces were shipped in the same bag, and they fused together into one coral.

However that is the extent of my knowledge, hell I don't know what really makes that special really, because I've seen digitatas and caps grow together as one too :D

[/quote]Close on the story, but not quite http://www.reeffarmers.com/limitedgraftedsimplex.htm. Check out the picture, not quite the same as a couple of corals ramming into one another, which I too have plenty of experience with as well.
 
I've got something like that going right now. A single coralite of something else came attached to the tip of a ATL frag nd they haven't killed each other off. Not sure what the heck the other piece is since it's only a single coralite.
 
it is not just a fused coral there was pigmet transfer here is a pic of my small colony
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:eek:

I am on a business trip here in Oregon. Today, I saw a second grafted SPS here and I did not believe my eyes. This grafted stuff is actually happening in
Oregon tort. Anyway, I could not believe my eyes. The green part is as bright as the blue one. I asked what is that and he explain that it seems another SPS symbiotic got transfered to the Oregon Tort. I asked the owner if he can sell me a frag twice and he said no twice too. He is growing it and he can put me in the wait list when it is available. He said he has been asked 100 times and he always said no. I asked him how this can happen and he does not know either. Nothing touching that tort, but the green part coming from different SPS. He said he has another coral that doing the same thing and he show me too. Unfotunately the grafted portion is not so obvious as the oregon tort. It was torquise color transfer to blue SPS. Well, in my opinion, that can be a switching color due to different lighting or water parameter, but I can be wrong. Anyway, right now, I am sitting here with an excitement because I got to see this phenomenal and waiting my turn to get the frag. He said it can be as long as 4 years. Oh well. Sorry I can not release the location and owner at this time, as he does not want to be bombarded with e-mail on that. I do not want he upset with me and wipe me from the wait list :) The goal is to bring this piece back to BAR and hopefully we can grow it too.
Today, I finally come to conclusion that this thing can happen in the nature. Not necessary by 2 coral touching each other, but just by the water transport too. How and what condition that trigger this ... still unknown. However, if I will be a marine biologist and need to do desertation ... this will be my topic ...:) WOW ... I still can't believe my eye. :eek:
 
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:eek:

I am on a business trip here in Oregon. Today, I saw a second grafted SPS here and I did not believe my eyes. This grafted stuff is actually happening in
Oregon tort. Anyway, I could not believe my eyes. The green part is as bright as the blue one. I asked what is that and he explain that it seems another SPS symbiotic got transfered to the Oregon Tort. I asked the owner if he can sell me a frag twice and he said no twice too. He is growing it and he can put me in the wait list when it is available. He said he has been asked 100 times and he always said no. I asked him how this can happen and he does not know either. Nothing touching that tort, but the green part coming from different SPS. He said he has another coral that doing the same thing and he show me too. Unfotunately the grafted portion is not so obvious as the oregon tort. It was torquise color transfer to blue SPS. Well, in my opinion, that can be a switching color due to different lighting or water parameter, but I can be wrong. Anyway, right now, I am sitting here with an excitement because I got to see this phenomenal and waiting my turn to get the frag. He said it can be as long as 4 years. Oh well. Sorry I can not release the location and owner at this time, as he does not want to be bombarded with e-mail on that. I do not want he upset with me and wipe me from the wait list :) The goal is to bring this piece back to BAR and hopefully we can grow it too.
Today, I finally come to conclusion that this thing can happen in the nature. Not necessary by 2 coral touching each other, but just by the water transport too. How and what condition that trigger this ... still unknown. However, if I will be a marine biologist and need to do desertation ... this will be my topic ...:) WOW ... I still can't believe my eye. :eek:
[/quote]That's awesome, I guess we'll all be chucking SPS at each other in secret for a while! Good to know that this is a potential tip of the iceberg.

Brian that looks a lot like my mystery coral, only a little lighter, the body on mine is more of a dark purple. The coralites on opposite sides of the branch, and being a little nubby is dead on.
 
1. find 2 SPS that dont fight each other
2. glue a small polyp of one to the other
3. ???
4. profit


Jeremy. Shoot a pic of what you got. I've never seen the graphted simplex (or variants) until this thread and they are quite cool.
 
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