今天,急切的高级业余爱好者都可以使用许多SPS珊瑚。远远超过我们十年前的更多。我记得当礁石社区小得多,就像一个小镇一样,每个人都认识其他所有人,而实际的碎片交换非常普遍。
Some years ago I attended at least a half dozen frag swaps hosted by fellow hobbyists. In those days the availability among the reefing community helped to perpetuate the species without importing abroad. This tradition is alive in many parts of the country still, but scary trend is being observed here in the Southwest.
Fewer and fewer old school corals are being grown and propagated, perhaps due to the newly widely available Maricultured and wild Australian/Indonesian varieties or the difficulty of their optimum water quality requirements. These old school corals apparently are not being harvested anymore or were wiped out where they were originally caught. I’d like to just highlight a few. If you have these corals, take extreme care to keep them alive, grow them, and distribute them, because there’s a chance we may never see them again.
蓝宝石Millepora
Acropora millepora在当今的一天,不一定是最稀有的,但是蓝宝石Millepora的原始菌株并不容易获得。最初是在2007年左右在加利福尼亚州亨廷顿海滩进口的,在很少有被允许看到它的人的私人储备箱中待了很多年。后来,我相信由于坦克撞车而丢失了。我个人在2009年获得了一个小殖民地,直径为七英寸。这种珊瑚在整个过程中都具有强烈的深蓝色珊瑚岩,并且在尖端上非常明显。
The polyps are green but the tentacles are a precious metallic green that I’ve not seen on any other coral. It grew quickly as a colony, but I later found out that as a frag, it may take years to encrust before it branches out. Survival to a mature colony is not an easy feat. A similar coral that may be the Palmer’s Blue or the ORA Blue Millie perhaps they are the same coral. I personally lean toward the traceable authenticity, but I will leave this to your own judgement.
俄勒冈侵权
这个珊瑚的历史很长,有点模糊。根据Upscales Reef的说法,可以追溯到1993年,当时将小碎片固定在一块活岩石上。1998年,还有一些报道,当时野生珊瑚从所罗门群岛进口,殖民地被引入。betway官网推荐
Ora后来从2004年大约从加利福尼亚州获得了种子。不要被卡利,贝克尔和贝内特侵蚀混淆,它们与不同的谱系相对相似。俄勒冈州的侵权截然不同。与其他侵权行为不同,它的生长速度较慢,单个碎片可能在最佳条件下需要超过两年或更长时间,以达到多个分支迷你菌落的大小。
由于增长模式和增长率,我对这是否是科学的疑问Acropora tortuosaat all. The coralites are spaced out much farther apart exposing more smooth skin than a typical staghorn coral. A mature colony grows in more of a random formation.
What makes this coral so striking is it’s true blue color throughout the entire body under optimal 20k-ish lighting. There are hobbyist out there with this coral thanks fellow hobbyists in the past and ORA. However mature colonies are hard to find these days and I’ve yet to see much distributions either from the swap community or commercially.
Purple Monster
您是否曾经见过紫色的怪物?如果您在过去几年中以礁石业余爱好者的身份开始生活,那么您可能没有。这是因为它在自然世界中很少见(1995年只收获了一个),并且在囚禁中是微妙的性质。这是一个明确的美是acroholicdelight.
这种珊瑚是神话所构成的。紫色怪物最初是从1995年从所罗门群岛进口的。betway官网推荐如果您认为在21世纪很难保持SPS,请尝试在1995年保持SPS,当时没有精美的撇渣器,Wave Maker Pumps或可自动化和监视温度和pH的控制器。这种珊瑚已经存在了这么长时间,几乎所有与之接触的严肃的SPS Reefer都有一个故事要讲。如今,当前幸存的碎片和迷你菌落很少见。我们确实知道南加州有一些。
由于自1995年以来一直没有报道过这种珊瑚的进口或狂野的目击,因此这种珊瑚的生存在于爱夫礁饲养者。此外,这种珊瑚是一个非常缓慢的种植者,并且对任何水质变化敏感。在过去的8年中,我有一些机会保持这种珊瑚。每次,参数略有转移似乎都会削弱珊瑚的免疫力,并在不久之后开始恶化。
使这种珊瑚与众不同的是它的形状和颜色。厚的分支但浓密。我的猜测这是一种深水物种,不需要像一些较浅的珊瑚那样需要大量光线。然而,这种珊瑚的标志是不能与其他珊瑚混淆的是白息肉,但是在较低的照明下,珊瑚息肉可能已经变成了更绿色的颜色。非常类似于aAcropora granulosa或更常见的Acropora Loripes, some might even argue that it could be aAcropora valida。无论物种如何,我们都知道一件事,如果我们失去了这种珊瑚的所有家庭种植者,它将几乎灭绝。
This is a guest contribution from Leo Chen, owner/operator of珊瑚Revolution。