Acropora Carduus是一个伟大的礁石水族馆珊瑚，有很多名称，随着速度的增长，世界各地的礁石都享受着礁石‘Red Dragon’ Acro。首先引入水族馆的爱好来自巴厘岛水族馆的马养殖殖民地，红龙已成为最具标志性的所谓“深水”之一Acropora耐光的耐受性，即使在平均礁石箱中也会增长。Acropora Carduus不仅是礁石坦克的珊瑚色，而且还是印度尼西亚耕种的绝佳候选者，在那里，许多更深的水栖息地可容纳该物种对较低，较低的淡淡，较温和的水流的偏爱水的偏爱。
多年来，在我们的礁石水族馆中，包括紫色龙，蓝龙，最近在印度尼西亚庆祝了紫色龙，蓝龙，蓝龙的许多其他颜色在包括紫色龙，蓝龙，蓝色龙和金色的鲜艳色彩中变得更加广泛。巴厘岛水族馆的Vincent Chalias一直在扩大巴厘岛水族馆，以在陆基农业坦克中种植一些真正独特的珊瑚菌株，除了其海洋基地农场外，它们更像我们的现代礁石水族馆。
The Bali Aquarium land based coral holding and culture facilities are a great way for the company to learn more about how their corals develop and change colors in reef aquariums and very recently an exciting new variety ofAcropora Carduuswas discovered among their corals that we are calling the ‘Shining Dragon’ Acro. This fantastic new color morph of the beloved Carduus Acro is a brilliant bright yellow with just the slightest hint of green resulting in a glowing deepwater SPS coral that almost dips into the lime color spectrum.
When these assorted Carduus Dragon strains are first harvested from their deeper water farming locations, they are all various shades of light brown with only an inkling of the coloration potential they can develop once they are conditioned to reef aquarium conditions. It was only after nearly 100 days in the Bali Aquarium inland coral farming systems that the shining dragon started to stand out from the rest and shocked the staff with the shiny yellow coloration that we see illustrated in these images.
当我们第一次看到这些图片时，我们最初以为闪亮的龙只是一种罕见的颜色，隐藏在许多不同的颜色品种中，巴厘岛水族馆在其深水遗址上。但是，经过仔细检查完整的分辨率图像后，我们开始形成有关这种新龙acro的方式不同的，有可能更具动态的理论。
引起我们注意的闪亮龙的第一个细节是，在殖民地的某些地方有一些微妙的浅金属橙色颜色，在分支尖端的末端尤其明显。Another aspect which got our gears turning is that the coloration is not exactly uniform and a little swirly which is a feature we usually associate with corals that have been ‘infected’ with foreign fluorescent proteins, usually the green GFP, which is referred to as ‘grafting’ in the aquarium hobby.
We can’t be sure that the Shining Dragon is a regular orange or golden morph ofAcropora Carduus在此过程中，这在某个地方获得了一些GFP，但是这是非常合理的起源故事，因为巴厘岛水族馆一直在耕种该物种的许多颜色形态，这是该物种首次观察到这种野生发光的色彩。我们可以肯定的是，与其他深水Acros相比，闪亮的龙在着色方面处于完全不同的水平，我们希望它被指定为有针对性的耕种，因此全世界的珊瑚礁都可以享受它。
