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Purple Death Palys
Wondering if any one has any advice here. I purchased a Purple Death frag about 2-3 months ago. They are growing well and I occasionally feed them pellets. Only one problem... they are brown. Currently in a low flow area with medium to low lighting half way down my tank.
Did I just get ripped off with some brown palys or is this normal? |
Need to see a picture. Mine are really purple
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My iPhone camera actually makes them look more purple than they are haha. Dam it iPhone you see better than I do!
http://applications.ccusa.com/martin/purple.jpg I think taking this picture confirms they are Purple Deaths. Any advise on getting them to color up or just be patient? |
I also recently purchased some locally. I put mine in medium to high light. They seem to be doing well. I'm not amazed by the colour though, but that's probably because of my lack of lighting spectrum...
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What kind of lights do you have? I thought they liked low lighting but perhaps im wrong.
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ive always found my nukes a pd's did better in less light or ambient lighting.from the pic above they are purple deaths.
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Yep looks like it to me as well.
Sometimes it takes a bit for things that you buy to adjust to your tank. Even in diffrent tanks that I have the same corals don't look the same. Give it some time thet seem to be doing okay. Mine are under 250w at about 24 inches and have always done well. |
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haha no i dont even have a tank right now but i was smart enough to throw some at some people and i have some purple deaths and nukes coming my way here this weekend or next , as ill be getting my tank this sunday:)
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heres some more you may like then lol:
http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/a...g?t=1295126787 http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/a...g?t=1295124907 http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/a...g?t=1294557859 and these ones i have sent into zoaid and they have let me name them and they are gonna put them on their site , they are similar to brooklyn's and pdpe's , i was hoping the were pink dalmations but zoaid thinks they are different and new to their system: i think this is the pic its been a while as i no longer have the tank lol http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/a...g?t=1293944984 cheers man and good luck with the purple deaths:) |
Those brown and white are awesome!
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cinnamon el grande palys to be exact lol at one time they couldnt be found here but now their around more often....how much you wanna bet grizz they prob came from my colony lol same with the nukes that were sold that day heheh
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i gave steve a frag of the cinnamons and the purple deaths not sure if they grew out of not but jphong got all my best stuff including my colony of nuclear greens which was around 40 heads and levi got the rest ;) jphong sold all his stuff and left it all with ken at blueworld and he was n ice enough to cut me some frags of them before they sold, they are at blueworld now awaiting me to pick them up so i get my tank sunday and then ill go get them:)
martin the purple deaths like less light somewhere almost shaded if can be and for me they grew really fast ;) |
I miss those El Grandes, I grew that colony from a single head. I have some still but only just getting it's third head now.
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they were by far my fave and ive had every zoa known to man lol i always bragged about them after i got them from you, come to think about it any of the b est stuff i ever had came from you dawn,that blue carpet was spectacular really regret selling it:( the cinnamons didnt grow to fast for me just like 2 heads but the nukes and pe's wow did they ever take off when i shut my tank down both colonys were around 40+ heads :):) i cant wait to get back on the zoa train starting this weekend:):) |
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haha nice reason i say is because the guy who i gave mine to gave his to ken and i was just assuming he would have sold them at frag fest...could be wrong though |
Jphong did not have any left at the frag fest and was asking a little to much for what he was selling but his equipment was priced good, got a few thing myself.
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They're in my brothers tank, they're about the size of a soft ball
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For what its worth, I got a small colony of Purple Deaths a few weeks ago and they turned brown as soon as they went into my tank. This was about three weeks ago? They are at the bottom of my tank in a low to medium flow area and are now losing their brown and starting to purple up.
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whats that?? |
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The colony is the size of a softball in Corey's tank... Its one of the few things that survived being in the dark for a week (courtesy of his skeezy ex)
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i found the same thing , i kept mine kind of hidden under a ledge where they were getting the light but it was less intense, flow wasnt to great in my zoa tank anyways so i also believe they wouldnt do well with high flow but cant say for sure as i didnt have them in a high flow tank.they did love my actinics though;) |
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now that you got them in a good spot do as the old saying goes " dont pick at it and let them grow" lol they dont like to be handled often and if you can leave them in one spot they like they should take right off:) beautifull arnt they:) the nuclear greens were so vibrant it was favorite colour green in the hobby:) |
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coreyskylar??? did he get them from me or john?? |
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nice corey got my "pink dalmation people eaters" it was my most expensive piece i put it in quotes because zoaid doesnt think they are pdpe's they think they are unique to them as they put it, they let me name it and im still waiting for them to show up on the site i called them " reefwars dreamy people eaters" lol tell corey i want a frag back if he still got them ill buy them of course:):) tell him to shoot me a pm when ever he can:) |
i must have bought ten different colonys looking for pink dalmations before actually finding them lol alot of look alikes going around
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that would be awesome thanks man:)
its been almost 6mths since ive heard back from coralpedia this is the message they sent me -CoralPedia.com- Heya, I think they are unique to CoralPedia. They have some Speckly GPE flavor to them, but different enough that we could add them with their own ID here if you like? Just let us know what you'd like to call 'em. :) tried emailing them but as usual they are sooooo slow lol ***** sorry for the hi jack********** lol |
My pink and gold paly need a lot of light to be really colorful. If they are at the bottom of the tank they are just plain brown, but when I put them right under the metal halide they take a very beautiful gold center with pink skirt.
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and if daniella says it ....it has to be true;) |
pretty sure i have some of those that you got to name them lol, its rightnext to the magicians
http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/s...9/IMG_0710.jpg |
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quite possible i had around 10 different kinds that looked like that , the worst thing about them is they are hard to get a solid photograph of because of the pink mixed with purple , i used up all my resources trying to find pink dalmations as they use to be my favorite for people eaters and i bought so many look alikes and every time i was like " yes..finally" lol |
lol i have so many and the more i search to see what they are the more confused i get lol
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