There’s something utterly surreal about being in Fiji as we write this, not at the final destination, but having a layover to even more exotic corals and genera coral reef diversity. We are headed to Honiara, Solomon Islands with a small team to go explore the reefs in珊瑚三角角，希望能揭开我们去年在夸贾林环礁（Kwajalein Atoll）期间记录的相同类型的“被忽视”的珊瑚。
In addition to doing lots of diving, we are going to be taking lots of pictures and really aiming to come across some really noteworthy corals that the Solomon Islands were first to make available to the diehard reefers of the late nineties. The holy grail corals we’re targeting at the top of the list are the fabledPurple Monster and Oregon Tort，从世界的这一地区进口的两个珊瑚。
We still remember receiving one of thefirst orders of farmed coral fragsfrom Bob Mankin’s Coral Farm way back in the day and it was the first time we saw真的五颜六色的SPS珊瑚，喜欢Montiporawith colored polyps, a coral we describe as the ‘OG Horrida’ that is raspberry pink throughout, not blueish purple or green like the ones we see infrequently from Australia. Of course we won’t be overlooking the cool regionally endemic reef fish like the greytailed angelfish,chaetodontoplus poliourus, Cirrhilabruswallindi，并且绝对想看到当地丰富的白色帽子的海葵鱼，Amphiprion leucokranos.
With another decade and a half of coral keeping under our belt, and becoming even more familiar with the entire family tree of soft and stony corals, you can be sure that we’ll be keeping a keen eye out for the weirdo corals likeStylocoeniella,瘦肉尤其是在所罗门群岛特别有代表性的珊瑚，manbext客户端Australogyra zelli, the branching moon coral. There’s no way to tell how much connectivity we’ll be able to partake in the Solomon Islands but stay tuned because one way or another, there’s a whole lotta coral hotness and reefing hotness coming to Reef Builders very soon.
