TSA SPS Spotlight: The most underestimated acro ever...

TopShelfAquatics · Aug 3, 2019

In a world of rainbow tenuis it's easy to forget something as common as the Vivid's Rainbow. This piece is the red headed stepchild of many a reef keeper's collection. One might have perfect parameters and it will STILL not color up to its full potential. For lots reef keepers, its easier to give up than it is to keep trying to find it's "happy place" but my is it worth it! In my humble opinion when colored up, a Vivid's Rainbow can give any rainbow tenuis a run for its money!

AngryMike2016 · Aug 3, 2019

So what is the trick to getting these to color up?

motortrendz · Aug 3, 2019

What do you keep it under? I have one its greenish blue. That's about it lol. I got it as a broen frag 3 months ago.

TopShelfAquatics · Aug 4, 2019

AngryMike2016 said:
So what is the trick to getting these to color up?

Very high light and very high flow in my opinion. We have this piece at the very top of our display tank getting pummeled by 8 XR30 G4 Pros and 6 T5 bulbs

motortrendz said:
What do you keep it under? I have one its greenish blue. That's about it lol. I got it as a broen frag 3 months ago.

See above
IMO the more light you give it the better!

motortrendz · Aug 4, 2019

Cool. I really gotta get a par meter. Been working with leds and it's been a guessing game.

Daniel@R2R · Aug 5, 2019

TopShelfAquatics said:
In a world of rainbow tenuis it's easy to forget something as common as the Vivid's Rainbow. This piece is the red headed stepchild of many a reef keeper's collection. One might have perfect parameters and it will STILL not color up to its full potential. For lots reef keepers, its easier to give up than it is to keep trying to find it's "happy place" but my is it worth it! In my humble opinion when colored up, a Vivid's Rainbow can give any rainbow tenuis a run for its money!

That is beautiful!