Purple Acropora

[Morgan]

Just got this purple beauty yesterday evening.

Now I hope the colour will stay as this is a wild collected acro.

Hon this is the colour that you are getting also.

[spiff]

morgan urs show polyp extension liao?

[Hon]

Wah...the colour beri nice...hopefully can sustain it....

Can't wait to hold it in my hand...ha.h.a

[Morgan]

Nope, don't see any.

This is a second pic from the top.

[Hon]

how abt a pic of the pink poci ??

[Morgan]

Hon

I have pink poci but not the ones that spiff got.

Mine's still brown in colour.

You can see from the second pic on the left side.

[robe]

Guys,

The acros they have are blue violet not purple. Under strong lighting conditions I suspect they will turn even bluer with a whitish tint.

Purple is closer to red in color like your salted egg shell.

[Tanzy]

Cool! Looks like a purple tortuosa!

Robe,

The salted eggs I've seen so far all have white shells.

[Phang]

Cool! Looks like a purple tortuosa!

Are they easy to maintain.... cos in my reef, find these guys pretty demanding and will RTN on you if you slip....

[Tanzy]

Acropora tortuosa and A. horrida are one of the hardest acros to keep. Their growth rate is one of the lowest, sometimes growing less than an inch a year although other acros are doing well. If kept happy, these acros should reward you with the most vibrant colours.

[Phang]

Acropora tortuosa and A. horrida are one of the hardest acros to keep. Their growth rate is one of the lowest, sometimes growing less than an inch a year although other acros are doing well. If kept happy, these acros should reward you with the most vibrant colours.

BEWARE THEN....!!!!!

I have 2 and 1 already RTN..... so its not only a good system but a excellent one that A. tortuosa can be kept in....

Guess I got to work harder to get them into right conditions....

Hurgh...... difficult specimens.....

[robe]

JUst got one today. Under full MH lighting the color is transparent blue with hints of violets. So far the polyps are peeping but not quite exposed yet. For such large axial corallites the polyps are very small. The polyps are violet in color.

For those who can sustain them get them from LCK before they are gone as they don't always come in. These are staghorn, thick branching species and require extreme lighting. Their shape tends to suggest they come from a high surge area. That means shallow water. I'm not sure if I can keep their coloration with my lighting, might require 400 watters.

[Morgan]

These are staghorn, thick branching species and require extreme lighting. Their shape tends to suggest they come from a high surge area. That means shallow water. I'm not sure if I can keep their coloration with my lighting, might require 400 watters.

Robe, have to agree with you on this.

I think the colour may not be easy to maintain. Got a feeling that it will fade to brown very easily if the lighting condition is not good.

[Tanzy]

I thought you guys might find this quite interesting.

J.E.N. Veron (1993) Family Acroporidae Corals of Australia and the Indo Pacific 6:161

[Phang]

Robe, have to agree with you on this.

I think the colour may not be easy to maintain. Got a feeling that it will fade to brown very easily if the lighting condition is not good.

Let me confirm this then.... Mine has started turning brown already at the undersides ....

and they are sitting directly under my 400 watters...... <_<

[Tanzy]

Sometimes wild colonies 'reset' their colours when they change environment. My acros did. Wait and see, it might colour up again.

[Achilles Tang]

Let me confirm this then.... Mine has started turning brown already at the undersides ....

and they are sitting directly under my 400 watters......

It may not be just the lights.

[robe]

yup, sometimes it just adapt itself to the environment. If they are shallow water acros your best bet is full spectrum light. Sometimes some wavelength may be missing from high kelvin lights. Sometimes its the high nutrient level in the tank.

That's why in Germany they starve the tank of nutrients to be able to get that vibrant colors. In the US they overskim by using the largest skimmers they can afford and very little fishes.

My acros (all wild colonies)at first turned brown but eventually the color returned once it has adapted. There is one though that just refused to color up again.

[tigerkai]

btw how much are they charge n are they the only one that bring in Acropora thks