My slowly growing Blasto collection

[The Escaped Ape]

Ape- Yeah $125 is alot to drop on something that is real questionable like that. If it is still there next time you go you will definitely get a better idea of if it will make it.

That first piece that you picked up from that same LFS is really sweet. A real nice color morph that you dont see too often. I wish I had it lol. That is a shame that it didnt make it though.

Yeah, I was really cut up that it didn't make it. I made a real effort to keep it alive, but it just didn't pull through.

Thanks again for the advice and for sharing your collection!

 

[The Escaped Ape]

With dieoff like that, it was probably a dying sponge or something similiar that took that one out. It's a common problem with corals sitting on a massive rock. The only thing that helps is sawing off the rotting rock, then fragging the coral with a generous safety margin to stop any secondary bacterial infection.
A really nice piece, though. Too bad we don't get CITES for those Indo blastos in Europe.

I'm making a mental note of this advice - thanks Sebastian! It might well be worth trying if I get another Blasto in similarly dire straights!

 

[bigdaddystar]

Neon green mouth, Purple, then teal, then purple skirt

Thanks BDS, yeah they are harder to come across. especially the nicer color combinations.

That is a nice colony in your picture. Is that a purple center and outside or just a darker shade of green?

 

[ParanoidObseshn]

Here are some updated closeups of a few that are closer to the glass.

Same colony but with a flashlight so you can see the color differences.

 

[jc-reef]

Wow, you have one heck of a collection!!! Bravo! Nice macro shots too. Keep em coming.

I have 3 different morphs myself...1 particular one that is interesting is this one here. The polyps come out like cones with flat walls...not the puffy polyps you are custom to see. I snapped this with my phone.

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[FroMan]

Very nice collection!! Blastomussa are definitely under rated in the hobby.

Have you tried fragging any?

 

[MBIETZ]

Wow im loving all the blastos on here and that is a very impressive collection.

 

[jukboxx]

man i love blastos, great pics

 

[sqwat]

i love blastos .i had a single head frag of the red strain and it got 3 1/2 inches across and my clown started to play and rub on it and stressed to death.i wish a had spacei getmore.i was thinking of a all blasto maximini carpet 5 gallon pico using the skrew in led bulbs.ah new prodject .anyone have 1000$ i can borrow?

 

[ParanoidObseshn]

One of my blastos seems to be changing colors slowly.

When I got these blastos they were just a purply/blue. Then after a while of settling in they developed green on the bumps of the skirts and some green going towards the center.

I just looked closely the other day and I realized that the green streaks going to the center were now turning more towards orange.

 

[TULSATYE]

A few of mine!

 

[ParanoidObseshn]

Here are the colonies that I bought recently.

 

[jc-reef]

My new ULTRA Blasto....

After placed in my tank (2 mo ago)

And Now....coloring up very nicely!!!!

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[Stu Pickles]

Alot of very nice colors. I only have one common (red and green).Keep up the pictures! looking good

 

[ParanoidObseshn]

Another New addition.

Here is the one blasto that just started growing on a rock in my tank. Found it november 2011, still going strong.

 

[NMC]

These are all beautiful...going on my shopping list.

 

[pyly220]

Nice collection!!!!

 

[cjk76]

Where do you find all these blastos?!

 

[Chinch Bug]

Blast in post 53 is sweet

 

[ParanoidObseshn]

Newest Addition to the collection.