Didn't Jamie used to run 10K lights? That pic you posted is top down too. There's a lot of color loss when looking through the glass. Have you had a look at yours from the top down Brad?

Oh ya, from top down, it's a perfect brown cross :) His piece looked like that regardless of how it was viewed. I just haven't seen another one that color.

Are they mega light wanting corals? I'm thinking maybe I'll move mine and blast it. Its about 5" under water and my lights are about 6" off the water right now. I could move it up/lights down just to mess with it and see if I can get it that color? :razz:

No, mine sat right below the 400w, didn't matter.

Greg, that's the closest I've seen to Jamie's original, mine sure doesn't look anything like that!

Although deleting the pic after I posted probably doesn't make sense :)

Wow you were quick, it was only up less than a minute. Sorry after I posted I realized that was a Cali tort. They were fairly similar. I'll find a shot for you.

Ok here is a shot of my colony of Purple Cross first in Jan 2008 & again in June 2009. I got a 1" frag from Jamie back in 06 I think.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ecrossAA-2.jpg

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...austera1-2.jpg
I believe the "purple cross" to be A.austera.

Probably my favorite coral I had from Jamie but lost years ago was the "bubble gum" acro. I'd love to find a piece of that one if you have one or know anybody. :wink:

Nope, haven't seen that in forever. Last person I knew that had it was Marc. It was rather prolific though, so should be around the Vancouver area somewhere. It was more temp sensitive than most pieces. I had about 10 pieces years ago that all RTN'ed on a really hot day. Everything else was fine, just that species...poof :)