Turbinaria bifrons与任何人见过的任何珊瑚都不一样，它也许是水族馆爱好最稀有的石质珊瑚物种之一。当我们说T. Bifrons很少有我们的意思是罕见的拉紧of a particular highly desiredEchniophyllia, a genus that is practically overrepresented in aquaria.
No we mean this coral is rare as in we’ve only seen it twice, the first time being more than seven years ago and only one other time more recently at MACNA. Furthermore there exists scantly no more images of the unusual “two-face”Turbinaria比Veron中的内容世界珊瑚。
因此，如果这种珊瑚如此罕见，并且忽略了，为什么我们或任何人都在乎呢？是什么使得T. Bifrons独特的是，与其种植我们最熟悉的杯珊瑚这样的单面板，或者具有令人垂涎的英雄珊瑚的分支形状，t . heronensis, T. bifronshas upright blades which are bifacial, that is with corallites growing on both sides of the “branch”.
Turbinaria bifronsis one of only two species in the genus to display this clear-cut distinction of having corallites on both sides of its upright plates. The other species beingTurbinaria Conspicua, which was once synonymized withT. Bifrons, making it all the more confusing in terms of taxonomy, but you don’t need to be a coral taxonomist to appreciate this coral’s incredibly unique growing shape.
曾经获得过一块T. Bifronsso long ago, this species is one that has been on our rare-coral radar for years but in an interesting turn of events, it was the coral that found us! While perusing the many coral tanks at MACNA earlier this year in Denver, Orlando Salazar ofAqua Medic Livebrought us over to the display of Carolina Aquatics to test our coral knowledge.
从某种程度上，我们本能地知道我们正在研究西澳大利亚州达尔文的珊瑚蔓延 - 这种生态区是诸如珊瑚的佼佼者荒野Acroporasolitaryensis,三色MICROMUSSA和下巴branching最爱complanata。甚至来自达尔文的圣杯珊瑚也看起来也很独特，卡罗来纳州水上运动也有船的负载，但是一堆真正的宝藏是深棕色的半色长石珊瑚帕沃纳。
对不寻常的珊瑚的仔细检查表明，珊瑚岩是可以识别的Turbinaria并在双方看到他们确认这确实是T. Bifrons我们追捕了很多年。幸运的是，由于珊瑚没有颜色，而且除了我们和朱利安·斯普伦（Julian Sprung）之外，珊瑚收藏家的真正潜力是未知的，因此卡罗来纳州水上运动（Carolina Aquatics）在这个殖民地上投了出色的价格，以便珊瑚可以进入一个好家。
Our experience with the easy bleaching potential ofTurbinaria heronensisimparted on us a very cautious approach to lighting up this coral and we took several weeks to move it into more or less direct lighting. Now more than three months since acquiring the coral, it has settled into captive aquarium life and its relative beauty is much easier to appreciate.
我们的殖民地Turbinaria bifronshas settled into a nice but not flashy forest green color with pinkish polyps that have a whitish oral disc. The edges of the bifacial plates are light brown bordering on pink and where the edges face the predominant flow, you can easily see two rows of corallites where the coral is growing fastest.
At the moment, one of the only colonies ofT. Bifronsin captivity is about fist sized and showing a really neat branching-blade shape. Seed frags have been made and will soon be distributed to fellow reefers so we can secure this coral’s presence in the aquarium hobby, learn more about its preferred conditions, and most exciting of all, see how many different ways this species can grow in reef aquariums.
非常感谢卡罗来纳州水上运动以合理的价格与该珊瑚分开，并作为完整的菌落，显示了所有物种的特征。两面T. Bifrons不太可能赢得对“设计师珊瑚”的任何选美比赛，但我们将尽最大努力确保这种压力在水族馆的爱好中持续下去，以便将来顽固的Stony Coral Junkies可以在将来参与其中。
