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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hurricane Aquatics" data-source="post: 11164761" data-attributes="member: 33099">Thank you, I appreciate your kind words. That's a beautiful green tenuis!  I have a couple of those as well.  I had a really green one like yours that died.  I couldn't save that one it was really bad off when I got it. Here's something to describe what I mean about sometimes they come in rough.  Haha, follow along with the titles above the pics and you will see how they will come back if you know what you're doing. Here is the picture from their site when I purchased it, lol.... notice it's a top down shot, which is fine and usually shows better color, etc.  I thought "Great! A rainbow version!" [ATTACH=full]3060235[/ATTACH]Here is what it looked like out of the bag when I received it. [ATTACH=full]3060236[/ATTACH]It actually looked worse than that photo as it was about 80% skeleton.  That photo was about 4 weeks ago I think when I bought it. This is it as of yesterday.  Might be hard to tell, but it's made a drastic recovery.  You'll see the expelled zooxanthellae and dinoflagelates on some of the Acro still. That's fine, those will go away and healthy Acropora polyps will make their way back.  This is a front shot and a top down. I'm using a cell phone and I am NOT a pro photographer, lol. These are true colors.  Notice in the first front shot below, look at the polyps extending a bit and also you can see them inside the skeleton.  It's getting there.   Second is top down. [ATTACH=full]3060237[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3060238[/ATTACH]Now most would have tossed that and said it was dead.  I've only lost one Maricultured that I described above that looked like yours and I had to frag a larger colony I received from Biota as it was not going to make it.  Ok a couple more.   First Pic is what they advertised, second Pic is when I received it (pretty much dead), third and fourth Pic is after 3 months and I fragged the dying colony onto two parts and removed that stupid concrete base it comes with. [ATTACH=full]3060268[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3060270[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3060272[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]3060275[/ATTACH]You'll notice in the last Pic, look at the base.  You'll see it still badly dark brown looking dead.  That whole smaller frag looked like that when I put it in.  The natural green color took over and has kept replacing the dark brown dead spots and that's been 3 months.  Yeah, I'm a proud papa <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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