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Auctioned Edition
Miami Hurricane
Echinophyllia sp.
Miami Hurricane Echinophyllia Fragfarmers Colony. This image of Fragfarmers original colony section was taken a few
days after Eric had received the coral. Large colony sections have a very striking appearence as can be seen in this image.
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This amazing Echinophyllia thick plating coral has an bright green base coloration that can at times appear slightly grayish. There also appear to be some blue gray pigments that mix with green pigments to produce the Bright Green overall appearence. The bright orange corallite coloration contrasts very strongly with the base coloration. What you basically see from far away is an greenish plate with patches or large spots of bright orange pigmentation. Reeffarmers acquired our seed fragment of the Miami Hurricane from Eric of Fragfarmer.com . Eric decided on naming this coral Miami Hurricane due to the Green and Orange coloration, which is similar to the colors for the Miami Hurricanes. This is the same coral as the Limited Edition Pumpkin Patch coral that Reeffarmers also distributes. We recieved our first fragment of the Miami Hurricane coral from Eric and then later recieved a fragment of the Pumpkin Patch coral from Greg Carroll. Both parties had decided on their marketing names about the same time that they discovered that both corals came from the same original exported colony. That colony was broken into two pieces and Fragfarmers had recieved one piece just prior to Greg Carroll recieving the second piece. We are distributing the Greg Carrol lineage as the Limited Edition Pumpkin Patch. The Eric (Fragfarmers) lineage is distributed as the Auctioned Edition Miami Hurricane. For those of you who do not want to wait years for one of our LE reservations, you might be able to pick up the AE lineage during one of its auctions. This amazing coral appears to prefer moderate to low light levels. It can be slightly difficult to transfer between systems and adapt it to strong light. It has shown growth in captivity and appears to be a new class of Chalice or Echinophyllia corals that should do incredibly well within the exotic captive market. Steve Tyree is maintaining a seed section of the Miami Hurricane Echinophyllia 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 light under a 400 watt 20,000 K Radium Metal Halide. The coral appears to develop its most intense coloration under moderate illumination. This helps to maintain the brilliant orange corallite center pigments. The Auctioned Edition opening bid for each new auction is currently $185 per small sized fragment with one corallite mouth. The quarterly auctioned edition auction schedules can be found below.
Miami Hurricane Echinophyllia Fragfarmers Colony Corallite Closeup.
This closeup image is from the colony section located at the top of this web page.
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Miami Hurricane Echinophyllia Reeffarmers Seed. In this extreme closeup image of the Reeffarmers seed section,
the main orange corallite appears somewhat pinkish due to the extension of the corallites pink polyp tentacles. The
new forming corallite in the lower area of the seed displays bright yellow and green pigments found in new corallites.
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Miami Hurricane Echinophyllia Year 2008 Quarterly Auctioned Edition Schedule

February
Auction
 Third Edition Auctioned for $255.00 at the 2008 SW-CFM Event
May
Auction
 Fourth Edition Auctioned at May 11th 2008 BA-CFM Event
August
Auction
 Fifth Edition Auctioned through CFM Auctions for $159.00
November
Auction
 Sixth Edition Auctioned through CFM Auctions Starts November 2008

Miami Hurricane Echinophyllia Year 2007 Quarterly Auctioned Edition Schedule

September
Auction
 First Edition Auctioned for $467.50 through CFM Auctions
November
Auction
 Second Edition Auctioned for $279.00 through CFM Auctions

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