Blue tort?
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mixed_reefer
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In that shot it does not remind me of a tort. Can you get a closer pic?
Kolognekoral
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Reminds me of A. tenuis. Big piece!
xinumaster
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I don't think it's a blue tort, but surely the picture is blue.
-=Efrain=-
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What color is it?
Kolognekoral
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I've scoured all my resources and am pretty certain it is A. tenuis. I have seen them this blue, by the way, although in the foto we do have some artifact. The colony form is very large for the species, it may have had quite a few frag experiences behind it, which have given it its assymetrical form. In the end, there is no other coral with this perfect rosette arrangement of radials with a prominent axial.
xinumaster
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That is a blue tort. Look just like mine.
Kolognekoral
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Yeah, I believe that is A. tortuosa. I've seen some A. abrolhosensis frags masquerading as torts, but the giveaway at that size is the hairy PE. A. tortuosa has plump polyps, not hairy. As matured corals the differences are clear, but as frags.....
I have but one A. tortuosa, a lighter blue with green polyps, just a frag, but am looking to find A. horrida to go with it. I've seen some amazing horridas over here.
BLKTang: yeah, I studied marine biology in school, but didn't see a future in it at that time. In otherwords, no one was giving out jobs in the mid '70s.
I have but one A. tortuosa, a lighter blue with green polyps, just a frag, but am looking to find A. horrida to go with it. I've seen some amazing horridas over here.
BLKTang: yeah, I studied marine biology in school, but didn't see a future in it at that time. In otherwords, no one was giving out jobs in the mid '70s.
Thanks for the reply. It was sold to me as a blue tort frag, but as it has grown it's looked less and less like one. The color in the pic is obviously scewed from the lighting. Most of the coral is a tan/brown with only the areas directly exposed to lighting a bright blue. It has grown from a three inch tall single frag to what you see in the pic in less than a year. Pretty good growth. Again thanks for the input.
Kolognekoral
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BLKTANG, thanks for the kind words. The learning never stops. And mother nature was a great design teacher. Where else do you find such an opus of colour and form as on a coral reef?
