Limited Edition
World Wide Corals WWC
Somewhere Over the Rainbow Millepora
(SOTRM)

Reeffarmers received our seed fragment and the first edition fragment of this coral directly from World Wide Corals. Victor Fornari of WWC originally acquired a fragment of this coral from John Dodd of Davis California back in April 2009. Unfortunately several weeks later John experienced a tank crash and the entire original colony was lost. Victor of WWC had the only distributed captive fragment. The fragment was placed into the 300 gallon show tank at WWC, where it grew into the incredible small colony imaged above.

So how in the world did this incredible rainbow Acropora millepora get called the Somewhere Over the Rainbow Millepora ? Steve Tyree of Reeffarmers did coin the name while visitng WWC, but that name was based on the original name that Victor Fornari was developing. Victor definitely thought that Rainbow needed to be in the name, due to the corals incredible rainbow coloration. There were a few variations of Rainbow names thrown around the crowd of coral enthusiasts that were admiring the show reef at WWC. For some reason, as Steve was trying to think of the most intense rainbow he had seen or heard about, this song name just came to him. Since we may never know exactly why that song popped into his head, perhaps we can at least listen and read the lyrics of the song itself. Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

Steve Tyree is maintaining a seed section of this coral for Reeffarmers.com in a 130 gallon Raceway Gyre BiZonal system. This system is naturally filtered with a semi-cryptic zone and a reef flat exposed zone. In Steve's captive reef the coral is positioned to receive moderate to strong light levels from a 400 watt 20,000 K Radium metal halide. The price of this coral per small fragment consisting of a single corallite will be determined by the First Edition Live Auction during the 2010 IE-CFM coral show event.