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[Turkeysammich]

Mariculture Acro is extremely difficult. Only the most experienced players can keep them alive long term. Less that 1% of reefers can keep the color that they came in looking like. Most of the time it turns into totally something else.

 

[The_Lazy_Reefer]

And just like that... over night after the past couple months of growth, it RTNd after the picture was taken for this post.
I do not understand...other than I had a high temp alarm the same day I took the picture when it was alive. So no speciosa frags for BAR any time soon now.
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How to keep the Coral Reef Aquarium Gods Happy | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog

The Gods of coral reef aquariums are wrathful. They do not appreciate any display of confidence, comfort, or excitement for the hobby. You must respect them to succeed in this hobby.

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@HankDean V Shared this with me a while ago and unfortunately you definitely broke one of the gods rules

 

[ReyDeFarts]

How to keep the Coral Reef Aquarium Gods Happy | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog

The Gods of coral reef aquariums are wrathful. They do not appreciate any display of confidence, comfort, or excitement for the hobby. You must respect them to succeed in this hobby.

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@HankDean V Shared this with me a while ago and unfortunately you definitely broke one of the gods rules

Damn it! Duuuuude...I purposely had not photographed that frag! For months!

 

[MichaelB]

I found liking a specific sps to much is bad meh something. Same thing happen to my last walt disney I use ti stare at it everyday looking for growth. The new one I glance and act like it's not there so far that trick has been working. Whatever you do don't think to yourself something is really starting to look good.

 

[tribbitt]

When i got my first mariculture acro (my first acro at all), it was a TNing colony that I fragged up into gravel/rubble size pieces

Frags I made of it took forever to get going but now one colony looks like this, grown from a frag of the above:

I have found that often mariculture acropora need very high light to get proper coloration.

That colony used to be under 650 PPFD, where it started to get brighter colors (orange yellow), but it got moved and is now under 250-300 PPFD, with bronze coenosarc and dark green polyps

Under lower light it gets lankier, under higher light it was a tighter growth pattern, from what I could see

Mariculture Acro is extremely difficult. Only the most experienced players can keep them alive long term. Less that 1% of reefers can keep the color that they came in looking like. Most of the time it turns into totally something else.

Nowadays keeping them alive is relatively easy, coloring them up is the challenge