就像礁石水族馆的爱好一样孤立,很容易想到我们的珊瑚的生命始于LFS和我们的礁石坦克,但珊瑚的真实故事发生在距我们数千英里的自然珊瑚礁上。为了告诉所有的珊瑚的各种形式的故事,我们很幸运能够前往世界上一些最具标志性的珊瑚礁地区。
My latest coral safari was in Papua New Guinea where I was very pleased to see a great spread of very purple Acros. Ok so they might not all be precisely purple, but there’s definitely a blessed assortment of blue, purple and pink Acroporas in Papua New Guinea.
We’ve all seenAcropora Milleporain a whole rainbow of colors, everything from pink to blue to green, orange, salmon and every shade in between. But I was really taken aback when I came across a truly purple Milli – since it was in shallow water illuminated with sunlight there’s no ambiguity about whether it was blue or pink, I’ve seen those before in the wild, but there’s no doubt this was a Purple Milli with a capital P.
A little more pedestrian but still very nice was an abundance of killer blueAcropora humilisand purple tippedAcroporalokani。玉米生成的分支A. humiliscan be seen throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans but as many times as I’ve seen this coral, I still have to stop and admire a nice chunky colony growing in strong flow and super bright lighting – it always puts our low energy reef tanks in perspective.
也当我告诉当地人about how manyAcroporalokani在60英尺左右的较深的礁石上看到了,显然,渔业部门的每个人都知道这个家伙保罗·洛坎(Paul Lokan),以这种珊瑚的名字命名。因此,在发现它的地区与这个华丽的深水Acropora一起度过一段时间。
Perhaps one the reasons the purple Acros of Papua New Guinea made such an impression on me is because literally the first coral that I focused in on during the first dive was this intense blueish purple species. It looks like the same shade as a purpleAcroporaaustera但事实证明,它在本地丰富,并且总是具有Austera通常不会发展的枕头形状。
但是,到目前为止,PNG Coral调查的最大“发现”是这款华丽的规模分支杂技,具有颜色的梦想组合。粉红色的树枝,蓝色尖端和黄色每个规模的边缘都使“独角兽acro”成为我真正希望能够进入水族馆爱好的“独角兽acro”。
实际上,这个图案有很多殖民地,但这是其中最聪明,最健康的,这是一个令人难以置信的珊瑚。With all the crazy corals that we get to see at the best reef shows, it’s easy to start thinking we’ve seen everything – but all it takes is one trip to a unique ecoregion to come across some corals we have yet to enjoy in active aquarium culture.