Moser
Active member
Very true that there are different coloured corals that start out very similar.
I get my corals from 2 main sources.
The first grow them out and have a fantastic SPS system. So, we can work out which are the limited edition corals and which have potential. I have even picked up a couple of corals that I've not seen elsewhere from them.
The other is my LFS. They get regular direct imports. Fiji, Cebu, Tonga, Bali. We have seen so many corals, that we can tell them from their shipping stressed colours. We occasionally get them wrong, but not often.
Palmer's Blue, Blue Green Tenuis, Mystic Monti, Reverse sunset, True Undata, Jedi Mind Trick. Blue tipped baby pink mille, Cali Tort, Oregon Tort, Hoek.... we've seen them several times, from various locations, but we can spot the subtle hues that give them away. Maybe this isn't obvious at frag size, but it is in shipped colonies. They just need a longer time to settle down.
Maybe it's because the market is different, but we have now seen these colonies so many times, that we know which is which and we're not often wrong anymore.
Yes, the nicer corals seem to be more delicate, maybe that's why they are rarer. Tank raised corals are more stable, so last longer etc etc. But, the LE corals are not one offs. I just think the rarer ones are more difficult to keep alive in their wild shipped format and that's why they seem rarer. I'm not saying we see them in every shipment, but we may see them several times per year, depending on the size of shipments.
I always thought the sunset monti was red base, green polyps... Which is it?.
Mo
I get my corals from 2 main sources.
The first grow them out and have a fantastic SPS system. So, we can work out which are the limited edition corals and which have potential. I have even picked up a couple of corals that I've not seen elsewhere from them.
The other is my LFS. They get regular direct imports. Fiji, Cebu, Tonga, Bali. We have seen so many corals, that we can tell them from their shipping stressed colours. We occasionally get them wrong, but not often.
Palmer's Blue, Blue Green Tenuis, Mystic Monti, Reverse sunset, True Undata, Jedi Mind Trick. Blue tipped baby pink mille, Cali Tort, Oregon Tort, Hoek.... we've seen them several times, from various locations, but we can spot the subtle hues that give them away. Maybe this isn't obvious at frag size, but it is in shipped colonies. They just need a longer time to settle down.
Maybe it's because the market is different, but we have now seen these colonies so many times, that we know which is which and we're not often wrong anymore.
Yes, the nicer corals seem to be more delicate, maybe that's why they are rarer. Tank raised corals are more stable, so last longer etc etc. But, the LE corals are not one offs. I just think the rarer ones are more difficult to keep alive in their wild shipped format and that's why they seem rarer. I'm not saying we see them in every shipment, but we may see them several times per year, depending on the size of shipments.
I always thought the sunset monti was red base, green polyps... Which is it?.
Mo
