Just got back from the Carribean

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So I just took a cruise to San Juan, Amber Cove and St. Thomas. I of course couldn’t find my underwater camera so no snorkeling pics, but went snorkeling in Turtle Cove at Buck Island. I was surprised to see a few colonies of Staghorn Cervicornis. With the exception of the bases which had algae, they looked healthy and were a nice Golden Tan with bluish white tips, kinda reminded my of the ORA Stuber Stag.

Anyway was awesome to see. I also saw some amazingly colored Bi-Color damsels (had some striking yellow in them which didn’t seem all that common but can be seen in some photos online.

Also really tempted to set up a FOWLR tank to keep a pair of Chaetodon striatus. Saw a pair of them which was awesome

 

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Nice Shane. I was pleasantly surprised in March 2023 in Key Largo seeing A. Palmata colonies.

Here’s some pics from Pennekamp state parks aquariums with A. cervicornis.

 

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Man to have a frag of that. I’m almost curious if the OG Stuber is a A. cervicornis. ORA’s just shows Acropora Sp. Not sure when the coral/rock collection went into place (I haven’t googled it)

 

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Man to have a frag of that. I’m almost curious if the OG Stuber is a A. cervicornis. ORA’s just shows Acropora Sp. Not sure when the coral/rock collection went into place (I haven’t googled it)

I do not believe the Stuber is an A. Cervicornis. I have no proof, just gut feel. I’ve wanted an Cerv or a look alike for a long time. Stuber is as close as you can get to having the real deal. However, it is illegal to have the real thing.

 

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Well, I might be wrong if this article is correct…

Stuber Staghorn Acropora - Acropora - Acropora cervicornis | Tank Facts

In general, species from Acropora may grow either as a plate, slender or broad branching type of reef building corals. Each branch has several colonies that...

www.tankfacts.com

 

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They do sure look alike. I had forgotten about the Stuber until you brought it up. Now I want a frag

 

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They do sure look alike. I had forgotten about the Stuber until you brought it up. Now I want a frag

Apparently you can get it direct from ORA through saltwateraquarium.com

 

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Damn, the more I’m looking at pics, the more I think Stuber might be a Cervicornis.

 

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Well, I might be wrong if this article is correct…

Stuber Staghorn Acropora - Acropora - Acropora cervicornis | Tank Facts

In general, species from Acropora may grow either as a plate, slender or broad branching type of reef building corals. Each branch has several colonies that...

www.tankfacts.com

The only issue is it says it’s a pacific region Acropora but who knows. I’m sure the same species could be found across the oceans

 

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The only issue is it says it’s a pacific region Acropora but who knows. I’m sure the same species could be found across the oceans

Ah, didn’t catch that. Would kill to know where Stuber sourced the original.

 

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Of course, one needs to do skeletal analysis to positively ID.

 

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However, I don’t know how much that would actually cost nor where to even start with that

 

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Ding, ding, ding...think I found it and this makes sense to me.

According the this article the Stuber is an A. Formosa.

 

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Not helpful with the scientific name but there’s this - Historic Stuber Acropora photograph documents 25 years of stony coral reefing | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog

 

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Not helpful with the scientific name but there’s this - Historic Stuber Acropora photograph documents 25 years of stony coral reefing | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog

Saw that last night while researching.

 

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Okay, I’ve become a little obsessed with the Stuber Acro. Found this.

Acropora formosa

 

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That’s pretty good. Would be interesting to see the success rate as it’s maricultured

 

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That’s pretty good. Would be interesting to see the success rate as it’s maricultured

After Christmas, I will be ordering a frag of Stuber. I’ll keep this thread updated at that point.

 

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Oh, and I will NEVER order from liveaquaria again. I’ll order and ORA frag.

 

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Oh, and I will NEVER order from liveaquaria again. I’ll order and ORA frag.

Yea, I stopped ordering from them once they took away the build your own cleaner packs with free shipping. Once spring rolls back around, I’ll probably get with you about that montipora as well if it’s still doing well. I still need to rescape my tank as I have a lot of unusable real estate due to current design/larger softies. My only concern is I don’t want to crash everything by stirring up everything when rescaping.

I’ll probably put in an ORA order with SaltwaterAquarium.com next year too