TM

Limited Edition
Acropora sp.
Ultimate Blue Staghorn


Greg Carroll's Original Ultimate Blue Colony
Photo by Greg Carroll

This Blue Staghorn is one of the most Exotic Baby Blue Acropora staghorns that Reeffarmers has ever seen. The branch stems develop an intense baby blue coloration. Corallites range in coloration from brown to purple, but can also develop green edges or rings under certain lighting conditions. See image below. Polyps can develop a baby blue or teal coloration. The coral was found by Greg Carroll of southern California (gcarroll). Initially it was mostly colored brown, but developed intense pigmentation patterns within Greg's captive reef system. Greg acquired the original colony from Black Coral Hawaii. It was imported as a wild Bali colony by Clint of Black Coral Hawaii. Greg has been working on importing more stony corals through Clint and this colony arrived from Bali in 2003 just prior to the mass distributuion of Bali Aquacultured and Bali Deepwater Colonies. The Ultimate Blue Staghorn may have been within one of the last shallow water acropora colony shipments from Bali. Reeffarmers is maintaining farmed seed sections of the Ultimate Blue Staghorn within one of our 125 gallon naturally filtered Tri-Zonal Reef Aquariums. This captive reef is illuminated with a 400 watt 20,000 K Radium metal halide. The green corallite rings have developed quite well while recieving moderate light levels from this bulb. Greg has observed that the green corallite rings developed intensely when illuminated by a Hamilton 14,000 K 250 watt DE. He believes that the green may become more intense under the stronger overall light levels achieved with 400 watt bulbs. Limited Edition Reservation price is currently $90 per small sized fragment. The monthly limited edition reservation schedules can be found below. Please note effective November 2010 we have changed the harvesting and reservation schedule to bimonthly. This better matches the corals long term growth rate in captivity.

Ultimate Blue Closeup of Green Corallites
Photo by Greg Carroll

Acropora sp. Ultimate Blue Year 2009 Monthly Limited Edition Schedule

January
Reserved for R. Rollins
Febuary
Reserved for S. Carmichael
March
Reserved for D. Schultz
April
Reserved for C. Jurrens
May
Reserved for A. Martineau
June
Reserved for E. Balls
July
Reserved for S. Gallagher
August
Reserved for R. Cooke
October
Reserved for J. Wienstroer
November
Reserved for P. Obuchon
December
Reserved for T. Wasden


Acropora sp. Ultimate Blue Year 2010 Monthly Limited Edition Schedule

January
Reserved for B. Wrightsman
Febuary
Reserved for P. Hickens
March
Reserved for W. Burris
April
Reserved for R. Lin
May
Reserved for M. Floyd
June
Reserved for M. Martinez
July
Reserved for S. Marshall
August
Reserved for E. Schlichte
September
Reserved for R. Inouye
October
Reserved for S. Hansen
November
Reserved for D. Castro


Acropora sp. Ultimate Blue Year 2011 Monthly Limited Edition Schedule

January
Reserved for M. Araujo
March
Reserved for A. Eastridge


Acropora sp. Ultimate Blue Year 2008 Monthly Limited Edition Schedule

January
Shipped to G. Adkins
Febuary
Reserved for J. Moffit
March
Reserved for A. Majid
April
Reserved for P. Chung
May
Reserved for D. Stroman
June
Reserved for R. Adam
July
Reserved for J. Huang
August
Shipped to M. Schwitters
September
Reserved for G. Lisseaur
October
Reserved for S. Ledin
November
Reserved for S. Luat
December
Reserved for R. Rhode


Acropora sp. Ultimate Blue Year 2007 Monthly Limited Edition Schedule

January
Reserved for T. Berry
Febuary
Reserved for M. Hopper
March
Reserved for C. Conway
April
Reserved for I. Hartwell
May
Reserved for J. Aviles
June
Sold as Buy It Now
July
Shipped to B. Johnson
August
Reserved for R. Meadows
September
Reserved for S. L. Chin
October
Reserved for C. S. O.
November
Reserved for G. Kaplan
December
Reserved for Mari


Acropora sp. Ultimate Blue Year 2006 Monthly Limited Edition Schedule

January
Shipped to R. Barton
February
Sold as Buy It Now
March
Shipped to G. Schwab
April
Sold as Buy It Now
May
Sold as Buy It Now
June
Reserved for J. Gallaway
July
Shipped to J. Berney
August
Reserved for S. Tobin
September
Shipped to M. Dockery
October
Reserved for K. Huffman
November
Reserved fro M. Harrington
December
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Acropora sp. Ultimate Blue Year 2005 Monthly Limited Edition Schedule

August
First Edition Auctioned for $ 280.00
September
Delivered to S. Garrett
October
Shipped to A. Deukmedjian
November
Shipped to C. Conway
December
Shipped to R. Hilgers


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

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