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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.
 
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ReyDeFarts said:
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. :confused:
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@HankDean V Shared this with me a while ago and unfortunately you definitely broke one of the gods rules
 
The_Lazy_Reefer said:
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@HankDean V Shared this with me a while ago and unfortunately you definitely broke one of the gods rules
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Damn it! Duuuuude...I purposely had not photographed that frag! For months!
 
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.
 
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

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

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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

Turkeysammich said:
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.
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Nowadays keeping them alive is relatively easy, coloring them up is the challenge
 
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After talking with another member today at cfm the conversation concerning these acroporas came up. So here goes a few photos for a update. I would love to see pictures of others who bought some if they are still alive?

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It's not fully colored up however you can clearly see the pink hues over the whole thing with naked eyes in person. It has the appearance of new growth on the tips and possibly some fresh encrusting along the base of it.
 
MichaelB said:
After talking with another member today at cfm the conversation concerning these acroporas came up. So here goes a few photos for a update. I would love to see pictures of others who bought some if they are still alive?

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It's not fully colored up however you can clearly see the pink hues over the whole thing with naked eyes in person. It has the appearance of new growth on the tips and possibly some fresh encrusting along the base of it.
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Here is mine. Starting to color up a bit.
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Krak256 said:
yea hoping so! btw you should have a frag of this if you grabbed from Austin
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Yea he should still have them. Couldn't tell any apart when I went to his place. With the lack of color. Any time your around santa clara I can give you a frag of mine. Or at a future event.
 
Alexx said:
What are your successes with keeping these SPS alive after 2 months I wonder.
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I grew mine for 2 years now. It's hard to kill, but the specific one I have is also hard to color up

Sample size in my tank is small but I've had similar success rate with mariculture and aquaculture acropora
 
One RTNed from a slight parameter swing and the other got eaten by a second gorilla crab (which I missed after finding the first one).

Frags are doing okay and starting to color up.
 
Both mine and the one I held for Eric STN’d from the bottom after a few weeks. I was able to frag both and they have been fine for the most part.

I’ve only lost one or two of the frags from those we snipped off to trade in the parking lot lol.
 
Krak256 said:
look like they've colored up well!
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They have!! the tenuis was super blue and has picked up some greens and pinks which is awesome and the mille went from not sure of the color to having some nice pink/green contrast. Overall for 60$ a piece these were amazing additions to my tank.

The mille did have a gorilla crab in it that I had to rip out once I saw it so for anyone adding these I’d definitely thoroughly inspect them.
 
Alexx said:
What are your successes with keeping these SPS alive after 2 months I wonder.
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I purchased 3 of these marineculture and after 3 months 100% survival. What I do is frag them up immediately—I don’t leave them in colony form. No issues whatsoever with survival. The colors can change dramatically.
 
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