距离Capan Reef Raft Canada首次将壮观的彩虹剪接Millepora Acro引入水族馆世界已经三年多了，它很快就成为了珊瑚棒收集器中最受欢迎的菌株之一。The first frags of the Rainbow Splice Acro sold for upwards of $1200 for very small genetic sample-sized piece and although the price hasn’t really gone down at least the size of the frags being offered has increased to be more in line with something you can see without a magnifying glass.
At most shows there’s usually one or two coral vendors who specialize in the top shelf Acropora strains so we’ve seen them out in the real world but this week we were fortunate to spend some time with a respectable grown out Colony. At roughly five inches in diameter the large specimen that now resides at Aquatic Art has a lot to look at with an even blend of corals being mostly green on the dies with a strikingly colorful streak of the base raspberry pink coloration cutting right down the middle of the branches.
With so much material to work with Aquatic Art owner and veteran reefer Cris Capp has a lot of branches with which he will be able to explore and experiment in how mostly green branches develop, how mostly pink branches develop, and which environments and conditions brings out the best of both colors. Most exciting of all will be the discovery and observation of what happens when yousplicea little bit of the green with a little bit of the pink and which pigment appears most dominant as it spreads throughout the newly嫁接frags.
One of the details that ismost impressive关于彩虹剪接Millepora的这个殖民地是从中获得的Two Guys Corals在Reefstock 2020，左上图，仅在短短两年内就成长为非常受人尊敬的！如果您的珊瑚不那么快地生长，我们的Acros很少会灰心，但是您会感到欣慰的是，他的礁石坦克是由水上艺术专业维护的，具有二十年的礁石水族馆的经验。
Although the sticker price of Rainbow Splice Millepora frags hasn’t gone down very much, knowing how fast this coral grows and with many SPS coral specialists working with this coral we project that supply will soon start catching up with demand and there should be a lot more of it out in the reefing world in due time. Big thanks to Aquatic Art opening up their shop for a nice video spotlight of their incredible new coral and we hope that the Rainbow Splice Millepora spurs a boom in reefers working with GFP-infected/grafted corals like this in the future.
