Auctioned Editions Alex's Blue Matrix

TM	Auctioned Edition Alex's Blue Matrix Acropora papillare

Alex's Blue Matrix Parent Colony while being held at Aquascenes facility.
Image taken on February 5th 2005. Reeffarmers acquired a fragment of
this parent coral in April 2005. The original parent colony was simply breathtaking. Image Copyright © 2005 by Reeffarmers All Rights Reserved.

We first saw this incredible Acropora while it was being held by James of Aquascene. This is without a doubt one of the most brilliantly colored staghorn corals. It also has spectacularly shaped scaley corallites. The colony was originally acquired by Alex Paguntalan and it was exported from Bali. Aquascene was holding the colony for Alex while some work was being done on his reef. John Susbilla of Exoticreefs called the coral the Blue Matrix. Reeffarmers is assuming this is due to the brilliant sky blue coloration of the corallites and due to the resemblence that the curved corallite edges have to the characters that appear on the Matrix movies computer interface screens. Reeffarmers first saw the coral in February of 2005 when we took the above colony image. When we returned in April of 2005 Alex had agreed to allow James to make a fragment for Reeffarmers. The fragment originally had some adaptation problems and had gotten stung by another coral in our reefs. Our seed fragment recovered from this and began growing as its encrusting base enlarged (see January 13 2006 image below). For some unknown reason Reeffarmers has been recently experiencing some extensive encrusting growths on many of our farmed Acropora seed corals. Even some of our staghorns are encrusting heavily. Unfortunately, this corals growth rate seems to be a slow (see June 8th 2006 image below). We have learned that the original parent colony did eventually make it back into Alex's new reef tank, unfortunately this original colony was eventually lost due to a combination of problems. From what we have been told there were only 3 to 4 frags of this coral ever distributed and Reeffarmers may have the only surviving seed fragment. John Susbilla distributed a few of these for Alex and he is checking his records and his stock to see if any other fragments have survived. Steve Tyree is maintaining a seed farming section of the Blue Matrix coral for Reeffarmers.com in one of his 125 gallon naturally filtered Tri-Zonal Reef Aquarium. In Steve's captive reef the coral is positoned to recieve strong light under a 400 watt 20,000 K Radium Metal Halide. Each auction will start somewhere slightly below the previous auctions winning bid (currently $130.00). Due to the corals slow growth rates we have selected a quarterly auction schedule. The quarterly auctioned edition auction schedules can be found below.

Alex's Blue Matrix Closeup. Note the dark blue polyps.
Corallites are thick, scale-like and of a uniform size.
They are edged with a brilliant electric sky blue pigment.
Note the matrix-like (movie) pattern to the corallite edges.
Image Copyright © 2005 by Reeffarmers All Rights Reserved.


Reeffarmers Seed Fragment imaged on January 13th 2006. Encrusting base growth has begun a few months after fragment was stung. Image Copyright © 2006 by Reeffarmers All Rights Reserved.	Reeffarmers Seed Fragment imaged on June 8th 2006. Encrusting base growth has continued and almost completely covered its base rock. Image taken a few days before the 1st Edition fragment was made. This is a slow grower. Image Copyright © 2006 by Reeffarmers All Rights Reserved.

Alex's Blue Matrix Acropora papillare Year 2008 Quarterly Auctioned Edition Schedule
August Auction	Sixth Edition Auctioned at 2008 NW-CFM August 2nd
November Auction	Seventh Edition Auctioned at 2008 DA-CFM November 1st

Alex's Blue Matrix Acropora papillare Year 2009 Quarterly Auctioned Edition Schedule
February Auction	Eighth Edition Auctioned through CFM Auctions in February 2009
May Auction	Ninth Edition Auctioned through CFM Auctions in May 2009
August Auction	Tenth Edition Auctioned through CFM Auctions in August 2009
November Auction	Ninth Edition Auctioned through CFM Auctions in November 2009

Alex's Blue Matrix Acropora papillare Year 2006 Quarterly Auctioned Edition Schedule
July Auction	First Edition Auctioned at 2006 Bay Area Coral Farmers Market June 25th
October Auction	Second Edition Auctioned through CFM Auctions for $130.00

Alex's Blue Matrix Acropora papillare Year 2007 Quarterly Auctioned Edition Schedule
January Auction	Third Edition Auctioned for $160.00 through CFM Auctions
February Auction	Fourth Edition Auction at 2007 SW-CFM February 18th
April Auction	Fifth Edition Auctioned through CFM Auctions

To inquire about the auctioning of this farmed fragment please send an email to reeffarmersauctions@ispwest.com.

Auctioned EditionAlex's Blue MatrixAcropora papillare

Alex's Blue Matrix Parent Colony while being held at Aquascenes facility.Image taken on February 5th 2005. Reeffarmers acquired a fragment of this parent coral in April 2005. The original parent colony was simply breathtaking. Image Copyright © 2005 by Reeffarmers All Rights Reserved.

Alex's Blue Matrix Closeup. Note the dark blue polyps. Corallites are thick, scale-like and of a uniform size. They are edged with a brilliant electric sky blue pigment. Note the matrix-like (movie) pattern to the corallite edges. Image Copyright © 2005 by Reeffarmers All Rights Reserved.

Reeffarmers Seed Fragment imaged on January 13th 2006. Encrusting base growth has begun a few months after fragment was stung. Image Copyright © 2006 by Reeffarmers All Rights Reserved.

Reeffarmers Seed Fragment imaged on June 8th 2006. Encrusting base growth has continued and almost completely covered its base rock. Image taken a few days before the 1st Edition fragment was made. This is a slow grower. Image Copyright © 2006 by Reeffarmers All Rights Reserved.

Auctioned Edition
Alex's Blue Matrix
Acropora papillare

Alex's Blue Matrix Parent Colony while being held at Aquascenes facility.
Image taken on February 5th 2005. Reeffarmers acquired a fragment of
this parent coral in April 2005. The original parent colony was simply breathtaking. Image Copyright © 2005 by Reeffarmers All Rights Reserved.

Alex's Blue Matrix Closeup. Note the dark blue polyps.
Corallites are thick, scale-like and of a uniform size.
They are edged with a brilliant electric sky blue pigment.
Note the matrix-like (movie) pattern to the corallite edges.
Image Copyright © 2005 by Reeffarmers All Rights Reserved.