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Minefield Cyphastrea
Cyphastrea microphthalma
Minefield Cyphastrea Reefready.net main parent colony.
This incredibly colored Cyphastrea has a bright steel blue base.
Corallites contain green pigments with additional pigment patterns.
Note how spread out the corrallites are on the encrusting morph.
Image Copyright © 2006 by Reefready.net All Rights Reserved.
The Cyphastrea genus corals have turned out to contain some very exotic and interesting color morphs. This new Minefield Cyphastrea is a fine example of that. The base pigmentation is a solid steel blue. Corallite mouths are bright blue while corallite septa ridges are bright white blue. Corallites also contain some green pigment patterns. The density of corallites is low and they are spread out over the surface of this encrusting species. Reeffarmers acquired a seed fragment of this coral from Matt Juner of Reefready.net. Matt originally acquired his parent colony from Rich (Sandollar). We do not know where the original coral was exported from. This Cyphastrea is somewhat similar to the Limited Edition Purple Green Eyes Cyphastrea, however the Minefield Cyphastrea does not have large knobby corallites. Its corallites are smaller and more spread out. The polyps on the minefield are also smaller in size. This gives the Minefield Cyphastrea a very unique appearance and explains why Matt called it the Minefield Cyphastrea. The steel blue base pigmentation maintains its intense coloration even under low to moderate light levels. Reeffarmers has identified this Minefield Cyphastrea as a Cyphastrea microphthalma species because it contains 10 primary and prominant septa in the corallites. See closeup image below. 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 weak light under a 400 watt 20,000 K Radium Metal Halide. Limited Edition Reservation price is currently $95 per small sized fragment. The quarterly limited edition reservation schedules can be found below.
Closeup of the Minefield Cyphastrea corrallites. The star pattern of the
outer ridges of corallites are colored white blue. The polyp mouth itself
is colored blue and is surrounded by green pigment patterns.
Note that corallites have 10 primary prominant septa.
Image Copyright © 2006 by Reeffarmers All Rights Reserved.
Actual Minefield Cyphastrea First Edition fragment. Polyps are partially extended in this image.
Image Copyright © 2006 by Reeffarmers All Rights Reserved.
Minefield Cyphastrea Year 2008 Quarterly Limited Edition Schedule

February
 Reserved for R. Barton
May
 Shipped to S. Spargur
August
 Reserved for J. Stoffel
November
 CFM Auctions

Minefield Cyphastrea Year 2009 Quarterly Limited Edition Schedule

February
 Reserved for J. Berney
May
 Reserved for G. Schwab
August
 Reserved for J. Gallaway
November
 Reserved for A. Andrasz

Minefield Cyphastrea Year 2010 Quarterly Limited Edition Schedule

February
 Reserved for K. Chow
May
 Available
August
 Available
November
 Available

Minefield Cyphastrea Year 2011 Quarterly Limited Edition Schedule

February
 Available
May
 Available
August
 Available
November
 Available

Minefield Cyphastrea Year 2006 Quarterly Limited Edition Schedule

November
 First Edition Auctioned for $95.00 through CFM Auctions

Minefield Cyphastrea Year 2007 Monthly Limited Edition Schedule

February
 Shipped to G. Adkins
May
 CFM Auctions
August
 Picked up by D. Wang
November
 CFM Auctions

To inquire about reserving a limited edition farmed fragment of this coral please send an email to reeffarmers@aceweb.com.
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