DBTC Battlestar archelia

[doliver]

I actually don't know what this is, but Jeremy saw a picture of it a while back and told me it was the battlestar. I got it in a frag pack from Reefer Madness about a year ago. It's one of my favorites and one of my most successful residents (funny how those go hand in hand) -- the only problem is I keep sticking my hands in there and snapping off branches. As a result, I have my first DBTC offering.

I have two good healthy frags (3/4" - 1&#34 and a third very small one that might be ok but probably needs some extra love.

Standard stuff: BAR members, two future frags

 

[jkreefer]

nice man, it almost looks like a branching pagoda.

 

[tuberider]

Awesome Dylan!

 

[Gomer]

really funky looking coral. If it were in a band, I bet it would play bass

 

[alve]

Very nice looking!

 

[tuberider]

BTW, IME with this guy (although I cannot confirm the same lineage), it does not have the bionic sweeper tentacles of the encrusting Galaxia, and is pretty damm safe around other coral.

 

[patchin]

What color is that? A bluish gray?

 

[bookfish]

That's an archelia horrescens. It was recently renamed from galaxea horrescens. The colony Gresham gave me (Thx G!) is forest green branches w/ light brown/ tan polyps. HTH.-Jim

 

[LordHelmet]

nice coral, and look at all the modest people.

 

[tuberider]

I've said it a billion times, you can't give coral away around here.

Although, if you don't have this coral yet your a ninny for not asking for it.....

 

[alve]

I did a search for galaxea but I couldn't find anything similar to this one, they all looked very different. The info I found about galaxea says LPS. Is this Battlestar galaxea LPS? Looks like an SPS with big polyps Very cool looking though!

 

[tuberider]

LPS and SPS are very subjective, it's easy to care for doesn't need a lot of light, and at this point is pretty uncommon HTH.

 

[alve]

I would be interested for 2nd gen! I received quit a few DBTC frags at the April meeting so it's time to pay back some of my dues first ;D.

Come on people, very nice coral! Keep the chain going!

 

[patchin]

No one? I'll give it a try.

 

[doliver]

Great, one for patchin -- where are you located?

To verify Jeremy's comments, it's not picky. Medium light and flow -- it's about 12" below my T5s. And no problems with sweepers. It went through a period of about a month where there were sweepers out every night but for the past couple months I've barely seen any at all. Here's a nighttime action shot:

 

[patchin]

I'm in Newark and will be at the BACFM today.

 

[doliver]

Finally got this one delivered to patchin -- thanks again for the assist, Jeremy.

 

[under_water_ninja]

Dylan, do you still have the small frag available?

 

[doliver]

I don't have any other frags at the moment but I'll look you up next time around.

 

[doliver]

I just found out I can make it to the meeting today, so this is very late notice. I have another nice frag of this one available if anyone tunes in in time to see it. PM or post here and I'll check in before I take off this afternoon.