不朽的侵权是一种独特的压力Acropora这是珊瑚礁水族馆爱好中任何珊瑚的最有趣的起源故事之一。据我们所知,上面的图像是在礁石爱好中收集建立水族馆珊瑚菌株的唯一记录案例之一,因为我们自己收集了它。
In June of 2015 we travelled to the Solomon Islands together with Tim Kelley ofUCSIto do some coral exploration and see if we could discover some memorable corals. In addition to rediscovering the location of theoriginal Purple Monster Acro并尊重purpleMontipora digitata, at 4:51pm on June 21st near the Sandfly Passage of the Buena Vista Islands we discovered a very beautiful Acropora.
这种珊瑚生长在陡峭的reef slope at a depth of around 35 feet and showed a striking coloration of green main branches, with beautiful blue branchlets, lighter blue tip and a semi bottlebrush growth form reminiscent of a thin branchingAcropora gomezi或厚厚的分支A. echinata. The interesting coral was growing alongside some branching波利特人,Australogyra, some dark sponge,帕沃纳varians,我们知道所有细节,这要归功于我们制作的几张原位图像,其中包括带有时间戳等的地理标签。
It’s been nearly six years since we first collected what wethoughtwas a lime green bottle brushAcropora使用蓝色尖端,但就像在水族馆条件下,尤其是SPS的珊瑚一样多的珊瑚,当它沉入我们的礁石水族馆展示中时,这种acro的想法完全不同。在蓝色蓝礁水族馆的灯光下,不朽的侵权的菌落是深蓝色至深紫色,生长的尖端和略带绿色的轴向息肉。
但是关于不朽侵权的最令人惊讶的事情之一是fragslook almost unrecognizable from the larger colonies with a gradient of coloration relative to size. When they are smallest the frags are almost completely teal green inside with blue tubular corallites and polyps.
不朽侵权的着色变得更蓝,更深,更丰富,直到我们最大的菌落变成几乎完全蓝色的紫色,并具有诱人的厚厚的分支结构。碎片和殖民地之间的区别是如此惊人,以至于经验丰富的SPS种植者亲自看到它几乎无法相信它们来自同一个殖民地。
因此,到目前为止,您可能想知道为什么这种珊瑚被称为“不朽的侵权”,这是因为我们几乎从未失去过这种珊瑚的一部分。We’ve kept and grown the Immortal Tort in over a dozen reef tanks over the last half decade and through thick and thin, when other corals have struggled or suffered the Immortal Tort has never skipped a beat, growing steadily even when the conditions were less than ideal.
When we first collected the coral we initially thought it was anAcropora gomezi(which is no longer recognized as a species) but over time it’s behaved more like theA. tortuosa和A. austera一组SPcorals in captivity. The Immortal Tort is highly reminiscent of the Oregon, Myiagi, or California ‘Torts’ in its growth form but its origin story and the dual ‘life stages’ between the frags and the colonies, coupled with its very hardy track record makes this one of our favorite corals, and certainly one of the best we’ve ever collected.
由于其巨大的增长率,我们很幸运地与多年来与许多不同的礁石分享不朽的侵权,包括ACI水产养殖,他们很快就会有第一批批发碎片。The Tortuosa Acros have been well represented in the reef aquarium hobby for many years but if you’re interested in the story of the coral and especially where it came from and how it got here, definitely lookout for the very hardy and colorful Immortal Tort spreading through the hobby in the future.