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Limited Edition
Pink Lemonade
Acropora species
Pink Lemonade Acropora Hugo Zuniga's old parent colony. Note that a single
tentacle of each polyp is super extended and elongated.
Image Copyright © 2006 by Reeffarmers All Rights Reserved.
This Acropora is an exotic coral with brilliantly colored pink polyps that extend during the day. The main branch stems are colored bright lime green. One of the tentacles in each polyp will super extend and this gives the thin branching Acropora a hairy pink appearance. The coral also has some purplish/blue pigments that can appear in the base or on branches. Reeffarmers acquired our fragment from Hugo Zuniga (snipersps). The coral has a very interesting captive history. Hugo acquired his fragment in late 2003 from John Susbilla (Tubs). John had been growing his captive grown fragments from an imported colony that he probably acquired back in the late 1990's. John was calling the coral Lime Green Acro and a few fragments were distributed. Unfortunately it appeared that everyone lost the coral for a time except for Alex (Reefer on a Budget) who had acquired an early fragment from Tubs. Alex then distributed fragments to Tubs, Mingwei and Joleen of Atlantis Aquarium. Hugo acquired an Alex fragment through Tubs. Early on this coral had interesting but not spectacular coloration. Alex believes that under 10,000 K the coral was more of a yellow with orange brown polyps and a purplish growth edge. He then noticed that when Rob Zayan placed a fragment under 20,000 K halides the true spectacular pigment morphs developed. Eventually Hugo's fragment grew into a colony and through Tubs a fragment from Hugo was sold on Ebay for $550.00 . Tubs decided to change the name to Pink Lemonade Acropora for marketing purposes. Atlantis Aquarium began calling the coral 'Shades of Fall'. A second Ebay sale of the coral went for $400.00 . It now looks like both Reeffarmers and Atlantis are going to use the name 'Pink Lemonade Acropora'. The coral grows slowly and it has not been widely distributed. Hugo believes he only distributed about 10 fragments before his colony was recently lost in an accident. It also turns out that John Susbilla acquired his original Lime Green Acropora from Steve Tyree (owner/operator of Reeffarmers) many years ago. Steve remembers handling a few of these Acropora species morphs and he currently believes the coral was originally exported from the Solomons. Only a few ever came in and it was a very delicate to ship colony. Only tiny colonies of frag colonies made it alive from the Solomons. Steve sold the coral to John Susbilla (Tubs) back before John started his online company. John was a collector of exotic stonies back then and at that time Steve was one of only a few people who specialized in handling stonies. Steve has not seen this coral morph imported since the Solomons experienced a civil war. Steve Tyree is maintaining a farmed section of this coral for Reeffarmers.com in one of his 125 gallon naturally filtered Tri-Zonal Reef Aquariums. In Steve's captive reef the coral is positoned to recieve strong light levels under a 400 watt 20,000 K Radium Metal Halide. It should be noted however that this Pink Lemonade Acropora has morphed within Steve's system (see last image below). Corallites have rounded and pigments have shifted. The brilliant lime green has been replaced with purplish/pink. Polyps are also more white pigmented and only partially extend. We do not know why this has occurred at this time. The coral is encrusting well in its base area which it was not doing within Hugo's reef. In his reef the colony consisted of numerous long vertical branches. Limited Edition Reservation price for fragment is currently $74 per small sized fragment. Reeffarmers reserved our Second Edition of this coral for Hugo Zuniga. We also have a video of Hugo's old parent colony that shows how the coral can develop an unusual hairy appearance during the day.
Pink Lemonade Acropora Short Video (6 MegaByte File)

Hugo's original Lime Green Acropora fragment acquired from John Susbilla.
Hugo grew his now lost colony from this one fragment.
Image Copyright © 2006 by John Susbilla All Rights Reserved.
Pink Lemonade Extreme CLoseup Image. Note the bright pink
colored tentacles and the brilliant lime green branch stems.
Image Copyright © 2006 by Rob Sayan All Rights Reserved.
Pink Lemonade Acropora Actual First Edition Fragment. Note that polyps
are pigmented whitish and the main base is pink with bluish/purple edges.
Pigments have morphed within Reeffarmers captive system.
Image Copyright © 2006 by Reeffarmers All Rights Reserved.
Pink Lemonade Acropora Year 2010 BiMonthly Limited Edition Schedule

January
 Delivered to P. Schrieber
March
 Sold as Buy it Now
May
 Reserved for Scott H.
July
 Reserved for E. Balls
September
 Reserved for E. Martinez
November
 Reserved for D. Castro

Pink Lemonade Acropora Year 2011 BiMonthly Limited Edition Schedule

January
 Reserved for J. Davila
March
 Reserved for J. Ruedaflores
May
 Reserved for D. Skinner

Pink Lemonade Acropora Year 2009 BiMonthly Limited Edition Schedule

January
 Sold as Buy it Now
March
 Reserved for M. Schwitters
May
 Sold as Buy It Now
July
 Sold as Buy It Now
September
 Sold as Buy It Now
November
 CFM Auctions

Pink Lemonade Acropora Year 2008 BiMonthly Limited Edition Schedule

January
 Sold as Buy It Now
March
 Sold as Buy It Now
May
 CFM Auctions
July
 CFM Auctions
September
 Reserved for S. Spargur
November
 Reserved for J. Berney

Pink Lemonade Acropora Year 2007 BiMonthly Limited Edition Schedule

January
 Picked up by D. Wang
March
 CFM Auctions
May
 CFM Auctions
July
 CFM Auctions
September
 CFM Auctions
November
 Sold as Buy It Now

Pink Lemonade Acropora Year 2006 BiMonthly Limited Edition Schedule

September
 First Edition Auctioned for $205.00
November
 Delivered to H. Zuniga

To inquire about reserving a limited edition farmed fragment of this coral please send an email to reeffarmers@aceweb.com.
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