Sympodium是一种有趣的柔软珊瑚，刚刚开始出现在某些珊瑚货物中。我们个人监视了Sympodiumcolony above tucked away in a corner of a display tank at Amazing Aquariums and Reefs and we’ve been getting reports of this genus showing up sporadically at stores throughout the country. Not to be confused with the “Blue Clove” polyps that became much more widely
available in the last couple of years,Sympodiumis related to Xenia but it does not pulse and it has much smaller polyps.
更好的是，Sympodiumcolonies we’ve seen are pretty darn colorful with brightly colored blue or green topsides, contrasting undersides and large knobby reddish brown pinnules. About five years ago we obtained and kept a nice largeSympodiumcolony that was imported from Indonesia and we found it to be a very unique and undemanding soft coral. A few more pictures of Ali’s colony can be viewed after the break, as well as a detailed account and video of a blue colony from Reef Buidlers reader, Justin McGuinness.
“这是我见过的最神奇和多彩的未知柔软的珊瑚。颜色绝对令人惊叹，这是我见过的第一个珊瑚，在T-5 HO照明下看起来比金属卤化物好得多。我相信大多数人会认为这种珊瑚是在Anthelia或Xenia Genus中。Anthelia通常会使单个息肉连接到一个共同的包裹底座，而Xenia通常有一个带有分支的茎。
尽管这种珊瑚非常紧凑，但似乎有几个单独的茎分支。我还偶尔观察到一些单独的息肉脉搏。我坚信这是一种新的Xenia物种！每个息肉（花）的中心是灿烂的蓝色，在每个触手上都变成了鲜绿色的绿色，茎是敲打着你的眼睛亮蓝色的。这块岩石在茎之间混合了一些丁香或手套息肉，看起来很不错。这是一块1/3的单个岩石，上面有10-12个单独的殖民地。
我把每一个三分之二into different tanks and different lighting and water flows. All three pieces opened up quickly and seem to like low, medium, and high flow. I did break a piece off of one stalk and the stalk itself seemed to break like a sponge would. It was more brittle than it appeared. I filmed it with my POS digital camera and I will film it again when I upgrade. If you have anything intelligent to add about this unknown soft coral please do so. This specimen was collected in Jarkarta a province of Indonesia.”
