Acros that look good without polyp extension

[BirdFish5000]

This may be a weird thread, but what are acros you think look good with no to minimal polyp extension? I have a dwarf angel in my 90 gallon, and the acros in there are colorful and grow decently well enough, but never have had polyp extension since I added the fish.

Hawkin's echinata and Red Ferrari look pretty good, imo.

 

[dadnjesse]

I think you answered your own question

 

[BirdFish5000]

Lol, productive reply Do you have any to add to the list, or....?

 

[Cyanohater]

This may be a weird thread, but what are acros you think look good with no to minimal polyp extension? I have a dwarf angel in my 90 gallon, and the acros in there are colorful and grow decently well enough, but never have had polyp extension since I added the fish.

Hawkin's echinata and Red Ferrari look pretty good, imo.

can I have a picture ( I'm not an acro keeper I just want to see)

 

[spsick]

Oregon tort, green Slimer, tables

 

[dadnjesse]

Lol, productive reply Do you have any to add to the list, or....?

sorry I didn't absorb the whole question. I was just commenting on the no polyps.

 

[Robinson]

TSA Princess Peach, Bill Murry and Fruity pebble’s. Smooth skins acros also look good. You dont need extreme PE for an acro to show nice colors. Now don’t get tenius, they dont look good with PE.

 

[Garf]

Any acro that’s still alive looks good to me. I gotta say though, since dosing trace A and K, stuff does come out during the day more. Not a clue what mine are called except for the Garf bonsai, I’m not a name collector.

 

[mattzang]

i also have fish that cause no PE so i try to aim for stuff that just has pretty base color. some already mentioned like oregon tort, green slimer, hawkins

smoothskins in general are great. i have a few of those and the lack of PE doesn't hurt their looks at all, honestly they seem like the ideal angel/butterfly tank acro along with torts. with the lack of PE, it seems like my fish don't even bother nipping at them

anacroporas seem to do well and don't mind the lack of pe

others that just look generally good: pc rainbow, garf bonsai, av99 blue monster, cali tort, tsa fruity pebbles, arc fireworks, tanzenite terror, tgc orange creamsicle, garretts acropolis muppets, cc dark knight, ora pearlberry, boomberry, ora red planet, ora green planet, jf fox flame, bc bubblebath unicorn, purple stylo, red monti cap, green birdsnest

some that don't look very good: rr pink cadillac, without the purple polyps it's pretty uggo. digis are quite ugly, i have bubblegum, forest fire, and german blue polyp and without PE, i'd definitely rather have anacroporas or birdsnest/stylos in their place. i have a few green acros with purple polyp types like upscales microclados and katrapora that aren't ugly, but without the PE they're pretty samey with other green acros. rr the vinh is another that looks cool enough, but the bright purple polyps are certainly missing so it's just a creamy white acro

 

[ScottB]

Yeah my basement frag system has tons of PE and no dwarf angels. My display has many of the same corals, a dwarf angel and very limited PE. While they don't share the same water supply, the parameters track very closely.