ORA Purple Pillow Coral

The ORA Purple Pillow has a green base and purple tips. It’s spiny appearance is emphasized by it’s long corallites.


Photo By: Alex Young (surfnvb7 on Reefcentral) Coral Credit: Chris Groves (HOC on reefcentral) Aquarium Lighting: Canon XTi with a Sigma 105 mm Macro lens Aquarium Equipment: 2x250W Metal Halides DE Phoenix 14k's run on HQI ballast, 2 x Giesemann Blue, 2 x Giesemann Actinic

This particular colony shows a nice green base with purple tip in the photo above as well as the one below.

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Photo By: Alex Young (surfnvb7 on reefcentral) Coral Credit: Chris Groves (HOC on reefcentral) Aquarium Lighting: Canon XTi with a Sigma 105 mm Macro lens Aquarium Equipment: 2x250W Metal Halide DE Phoenix 14k's run on HQI ballast, 2 x Giesemann Blue, 2 x Giesemann Actinic

This is the same colony as the one in Alex Young’s previous post. This colony was fragged and has grown into the colony shown in these photos. The same strain looks much more purple, and has almost lost all green shades.
Here is a top-down shot of the same colony. You can see this ORA Purple [...]


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