This exceptionally stunning purpleAcropora suharsonoiwith swirls of green fluorescent protein has just been obtained by巴厘岛水族馆. Rare and aberrant reef fish pop up on our radar like everyday but one of a kind coral specimens such as this purple and greenA. Suharsonoiare much more special.
Acropora Suharsonoi已经是其标志性的Staghorn珊瑚，它的尺寸优雅的长光滑分支，可惜，该物种通常以灰色，绿色或奶油的细腻阴影发现。因此，您可以想象为什么当我们看到一个不错的地方时我们会失去冷静荒野Acropora suharsonoiin central Indonesia with a redding pink coloration.
但是，今天的紫色Acropora suharsonoiis brought to us in aquarium conditions, and under the type of blue-rich LED aquarium lighting which brings out its defining swirls of green fluorescent pigment. We’ve seen GFP-infections in many
SPS corals before; sometimes called ‘grafted acros’, some strains of aquarium corals are actually propagated specifically for their GFP infection.
One of the first GFP infected corals to be purposefully grown for limited edition frags was none other than the‘Grafted Simplex’ from Reef Farmers. This coral was the first to really hit reefers radar and it spurred the intense debate which led to our ‘understanding’ that绿色荧光蛋白可以“感染”珊瑚and spread throughout its tissues.
其他一些圈养的圈养水族馆珊瑚和著名的GFP感染包括史蒂夫·盖勒（Steve Garret）的绿色外套，Acropora divaricatawhose purple tips are constantly being enveloped by rapidly encroaching green fluorescent protein. Perhaps even more famous and widespread is the World Wide Corals grafted cap, an orangeMontipora Capricornis发展美丽beautiful green streaks and swirls.
More recently we’ve seen the hallmarks of GFP infection in wild-collected绿色飞溅Astreopora Randalli. While we make a big deal out of the very few GFP infected corals we come across, this brilliant purple Acropora suharsonoi is truly on another level.
One of the things that make’s today’s discovery of this exceptionalAcropora suharsonoiis that it is already in the hands of巴厘岛水族馆, one of the most famous coral farming companies in the world. We are therefore hoping that Bali Aquarium has some plans to put this coral into intensive propagation so they can farm many more specimens of the purple-greenAcropora suharsonoiand send farmed colonies of it all over the world.
