Limb of the Sun Reeffarmers Seed section. The amazing pigmentation pattern
of the Limb of the Sun coral consists of solid red colored corallite ridges that have prominent grooves.
The center of the corallite is a solid unique violet blue color. Between these two pigment patterns
there is an inner ring of dark purple pigments.
The Limb of the Sun has an absolutely amazing and unique pigmentation pattern for a brain-type of stony coral.
The prominent ridges inbetween the corallites are colored a solid red. Very unique for this type of brain.
These ridges also have distinctive grooves that are perpindicular to the ridge. The corallite centers are a
solid bright violet blue. This combination of pigments is very unique. Reeffarmers acquired a colony of this
coral from Clint at Diamonds in the Reef.
We split our colony with a private collector located in Los Angeles. Clint has been working directly with a
collector in Sulawesi Indonesia. That collector had been holding this coral for a few months prior to Clint
importing it directly. The corals marketing name was coined by Clint. This particular coral was adapted to
captive systems when Reeffarmers had acquired it. The coral also fragments very well and Reeffarmers will
be producing captive grown fragments of this coral for years. It has maintained its pigmentation very well.
Reeffarmers currently believes this might be a Favia rotumana species coral.
Steve Tyree is maintaining a seed section of the Limb of the Sun for Reeffarmers.com
in an 125 gallon naturally filtered Tri-Zonal Reef Aquarium. In Steve's captive reef the coral is
positioned to receive Weak to moderate light under a 400 watt 20,000 K Radium Metal Halide. The coral
appears to require weak to Moderate illumination to retain its coloration. The Auctioned Edition
opening bid for each new auction is $70.00 per small fragment. The quarterly auctioned edition auction
schedules can be found below.
Limb of the Sun Reeffarmers Seed Corallite Closeup.
The solid violet blue corallite center can easily be seen in this image.
The purple inner ring coloration may be created by a mixture of the
red ridge pigments and the inner violet blue pigments.
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