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Reeffarmers acquired our seed of this coral directly from The Mystic Reef in August of 2010. Jeremy and Adam had been growing the coral in captivity for a year. Another unique quality of the Watermelonade is that this coral fragments very well in captivity. Small one eye fragments typically can begin growing in just a couple of weeks. The True Watermelons can take months for new fragments to begin captive growth. So this coral should be a very popular coral and will be widely distributed over the next few years.
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 low to moderate 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.
Please note Reeffarmers is no longer taking new reservations for new corals. The current economic conditions are not supportive for reservations that extend for a few years into the future. After this first edition is distributed, we will sell future captive produced fragments on either our Buy It Now page or via another silent auction. We will still list exotic corals as Limited Editions and will continue to build web pages for them.
Live Auction was September 19th 2010 IE-CFM coral show | ||