你看过橙瘦肉, you’ve probably seen green瘦肉，而且您绝不会错过green-eyed orange Jack-O-Lantern瘦肉.However this delectable colony of RED瘦肉is in a league of its own, with the most graceful colony shape and a perfect arc of light colored growing tissue around its perimeter.
稀有性是相对的，但我们一直在寻找各种形式，颜色和物种瘦肉因为在大多数礁甚至发音之前Echinophyllia随着我们的雷达刺激，这只是有史以来第二个红色瘦肉we’ve ever come across, and the only fully-formed colony ever. This gorgeous red瘦肉arrived atUnique Corals从巴厘岛水族馆and it has settled in quite nicely to a nice, even light field provided by all blue T5 lighting.
When it first arrived this colony quickly started to brown out and decline in health but a实验dosage of zincreally helped to get this coral, and several other瘦肉colonies, to retain and even improve their colors in captivity. This beautiful red coloration of this particular瘦肉became so well defined that even redder streaks have shown themselves through the subtle yet one of a kind color morph.
In terms of species, this colony falls somewhere between aleptoseris solidawith little mounds between the corallites, andLeptoseris foliosa它具有最光滑的质地和最坦率的形状瘦肉species. We’re leaning towards the latter as the identification for this species but the abundance of embedded barnacles in this wild colony make a confident identification somewhat less than certain.
No matter what the species, we are happy not only to have documented this colony but also witnessed its rebound following importation from the wild. This colony is too special to go to any one person so it will be slated to be cultured by Unique Corals and made available sometime in the future.
