Chalice/Echinophyllia (and Acan) color questions

[Len]

Does the colors change dramatically under different conditions (like Acros)? Same question goes for Acans.

 

[Anonymous]

IMHO, it depends on the starting color. Most of the acans/echinos I have are pretty much the same color as when I received them, and moving them up/down made no difference. Len, if you're looking for a solid pink, cheap coral, then grab that Atlantis hot pink chalice. It's really nice. They have alien eye chalices for cheap now, too...around $40.

Peace,

Chip

 

[Len]

I've got all the chalices I want except that watermelon that everyone wants Some chalices are pretty, but the sweeper tentacles are a deal breaker. I'd rather have a nice Monti, to tell you the truth.

Atlantis never returns my emails, even on huge orders. I've given up on them.

 

[Len]

Hmm, forgot to ask a related question. Suppose I have some "multicolored" Acan echinata that have bright orange, green, and darkish red/brown all over. Those patterns won't change with different conditions? Will the new grow continue to be multicolored?

 

[jusreefin]

IMO color can vary and change a lot. I have a Acan Rotundoflora that is Red with green eyes in my system but orange in my friends. I also have a Rainbow echinta that is darker red now and it was a pale blue green when I first got it. An yes new growth will multi colored if the parent colony is that way

 

[jusreefin]

before

Now

This chalice is now a solid brick red over a year later and now the size of a small plate

 

[Len]

Thanks for sharing the photos.

I'm finding my A.subechiniata is developing a more intense neon green and each polyp is getting neon orange centers as time goes by. Very cool!

I still can't believe the explosion of coral variety available now. When I stopped buying livestock ~5 years ago, there were no acans and no one cared about blastos or chalice-type corals. Boy, how times have changed.