Limited Edition
Favites pentagona
The War Coral

Reeffarmers was fortunate to acquire a section of this coral morph from Matt Hopper of San Jose California. Matt owned and operated the Aquarium Service Business Amazing Aquariums. Matt acquired his coral from a wholesaler within the Bay Area of California. Reeffarmers and Matt Hopper decided to name and market fragments of this color morph of Favites pentagona coral as 'The War Coral'. The name is simply based on the species name of pentagona and the Blood Red main pigmentation of the coral. As can be seen in the closeup image below however the coral can defend itself fairly well by extending some large polyp tentacles.

On the left side of the coral in the seed colony image above there can also be seen some turquoise/gray colored pigmentation. It is unknown what promotes the development of these non-red pigments. The pigments seem to be located near edges or ends of a colony section. This does bring up the possibility that the Blood Red War Coral might be able to be morphed into other pigmentation patterns.

Steve Tyree is maintaining a farmed section of this coral for reeffarmers.com in one of his 125 gallon naturally filtered Tri-Zonal Reef Aquariums. In Steve's captive reef the coral is positoned to recieve moderate light under a 400 watt 20,000 K Radium Metal Halide. The price is currently $50 per medium sized fragment. Each fragment will contain at least 4 to 5 polyp mouths.