Is there A blue leather?
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Not that I'm aware of. Leathers, at their most colorful, are purple, pink, yellow or green. Some particularly attractive specimens have a purple body with green polyps. There are some stereonephthya corals that are particularly colorful but they can be finicky and hard to find. Generally, people like leathers for their movement and eventual size. Soft coral tanks have a dynamic look and feel that is quite distinct from the intensely colorful but static look of an sps tank. Embrace a soft coral dominated tank for the positive qualities that distinguish it from an sps tank and if you desire color cultivate ricordea, zoanthids, and flower anemones as well.
You could also try less demanding sps like montipora along with your soft corals. In some tanks they grow like weeds.
You could also try less demanding sps like montipora along with your soft corals. In some tanks they grow like weeds.
desjardinii
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What about blue Xenia? Get's a bit more branch-like when fully expanded...
desjardinii
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This one's about 8" when fully expanded and is growing taller. IME, all Xenias grow pretty fast.
Frizzo1983
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What about blue waving hand like this ?
Frizzo1983
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Or what about a blue purple eco gorg?
duganderson
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Yes, I have seen them in a local club members tank. I heard it is easy to keep like other leathers.
Here is an online site that caries them. Look for Blue Devils Finger Leather on this page.
http://www.aquacon.com/softcoral.html
Here is an online site that caries them. Look for Blue Devils Finger Leather on this page.
http://www.aquacon.com/softcoral.html
this is the complete colony where i have a frag from...I call him my alien :lol2:
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Yet your over seas and I can't get a start
they don't sell it in our stores either .. got a frag from somebody of our Belgian forum.. thats the problem when i looked at a webstore in Texas i saw so many beautifull things you don't even see overhere either... I have ordered but its so expensive to ship and the cites papers for delivery overhere.. i have to wait if i wont have problems either to get it at home.. so its almost impossible to ship it to the states to you.:hmm2:
desjardinii
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Mine started off as a small frag from my LFS....in Australia!
This may be a little closer for you, they have it listed as "African Blue"
http://www.aquacon.com/coralxenia.html
akitareefer
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My only question with colored softies is are they artificially colored? I know some of them are. I don't have any experience or knowledge about it. Maybe someone knows more?
duganderson
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Aquacon says it is not colored and looks blue under a range of different lights.
Also, I know someone that has it in there tank with a typical halide LED combination and it is clearly blue. The person that sold him that coral also confirmed it is blue under typical lighting (not all blue or something)
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