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Limited Edition -
Acropora clathrata

Retired February 2005 !


Acropora clathrata Colony from Back

This extremelly rare Acropora Stony Coral is being farmed by Steve Tyree of Dynamic Ecomorphology (DE). Steve is maintaining the coral within a 235 gallon naturally filtered Quad-Zonal EG Reef Aquarium. This is the first living clathrata table that Steve has ever seen imported for the hobby. It was exported from Fiji. This is a super rare one-of-a-kind table Acropora. It develops horizonal radiating branches and tends to not form vertical branches. Branches can also fuse together. This gives the table a very unique growth form. This particular table has a fully encrusted thick base column with a 7 inch diameter tabular plate. The plate is very thin and flat due to the horizontal travelling branches. In addition to its exotic form this coral has a very unique coloration pattern that Steve has never seen in an Acropora. The branch stems are solid pinkish blue colored while the corallites are brown. This pink coloration is becomming more intense in captivity. Images of this specific species and morph in nature can be found within Corals of the World by Veron. Volume 1. Page 292 image 3 and page 293 image 5. In Steve's captive reef the coral is positoned at about 14 inches below a 400 watt 20,000 K Radium Metal Halide. Water current is strong. Steve may be the only Reef Farmer in the world currently producing pink branched Acropora clathrata fragments. ReefFarmers.com is allowed to distribute 2 farmed fragment of this coral per month. Price is currently $100 per medium sized fragment. The monthly limited edition reservation schedule can be found below. Please Note - Starting in April of 2003 there will only be one fragment available per month. This unique species of Acropora coral has turned out to be difficult to fragment. It has a very strong and brittle skeleton. If its captive growth rate increases we may go back to 2 per month during the months in 2003 that are now limited to 1 fragment.

Acropora clathrata Colony from Front

CORAL RETIRED February 2005. Reeffarmers.com decided to retire the Limited Edition coral Acropora clathrata during February of 2005. This was done for primarily one reason. The coral was difficult to keep in the long term. We now suspect that this coral requires extreme water current and extreme light levels. We currently do not have a reef setup within our facility that develops extreme currents and light levels. We are however setting up a new 350 gallon Zonal Reef Pond and we may develop extreme conditions on the exposed zone, but have not made a firm descision as of yet. We no longer maintain a living section of this coral within our facility. By retiring this coral we hope to discourage others from assuming that this morph of the Acropora clathrata is a coral that could be maintained within captive systems easily. There were a total of about 21 fragments that did get distributed over the past 2 years. If anyone who recieved a Limited Edition fragment of this coral wants to futhur distribute this interesting but difficult coral, please send us your email or web site link. Obviously you would need to figure out the long term captive issues with this particular species. We will add your email or web link to the Limited Edition History listed below. Reeffarmers.com will not be growing any fragments of this coral. Reeffarmers.com does not have any current plans to reinstate the Limited Edition distribution of this coral in the future.

Acropora clathrata Colony from Front Edge

Acropora Clathrata Year 2004 Monthly Limited Edition Schedule

January - Fragment
Shipped to Michael T. N.
February - Fragment
Shipped to S. M.
March - Fragment
Cancelled
April - Fragment
Cancelled
May - Fragment
Cancelled
June - Fragment
Shipped to E. B.
July - Fragment
Cancelled
August - Fragment
Cancelled
September - Fragment
Cancelled
October - Fragment
Cancelled
November - Fragment
Cancelled
December - Fragment
Shipped to C. Lasalde


Acropora Clathrata Year 2005 Monthly Limited Edition Schedule

January - Fragment
Cancelled
February - Fragment
Cancelled
March - Fragment
Cancelled
April - Fragment
Cancelled
May - Fragment
Cancelled
June - Fragment
Cancelled
July - Fragment
Cancelled
August - Fragment
Cancelled
September - Fragment
Cancelled
October - Fragment
Cancelled
November - Fragment
Cancelled
December - Fragment
Cancelled


Acropora Clathrata Year 2006 Monthly Limited Edition Schedule

January - Fragment
Cancelled
February - Fragment
Cancelled
March - Fragment
Cancelled
April - Fragment
Cancelled
May - Fragment
Cancelled
June - Fragment
Cancelled
July - Fragment
Cancelled
August - Fragment
Cancelled
September - Fragment
Cancelled
October - Fragment
Cancelled
November - Fragment
Cancelled
December - Fragment
Cancelled


Acropora Clathrata Year 2007 Monthly Limited Edition Schedule

January - Fragment
Cancelled
February - Fragment
Cancelled
March - Fragment
Cancelled
April - Fragment
Cancelled
May - Fragment
Cancelled
June - Fragment
Cancelled
July - Fragment
Cancelled
August - Fragment
Cancelled
September - Fragment
Cancelled
October - Fragment
Cancelled
November - Fragment
Cancelled
December - Fragment
Cancelled


Acropora Clathrata Year 2003 Monthly Limited Edition Schedule

January - Fragment 1
Cancelled
January - Fragment 2
Shipped to S. F.
February - Fragment 1
Shipped to A. A.
February - Fragment 2
Shipped to ceyx
March - Fragment 1
Shipped to K. D.
March - Fragment 2
Shipped to G. A.
April - Fragment 1
Shipped to M. S.
May - Fragment 1
Shipped to C. N.
June - Fragment 1
Shipped to K. H.
July - Fragment 1
Cancelled
August - Fragment 1
Picked up by P. S.
September - Fragment 1
Shipped to S. L. R.
October - Fragment 1
Shipped to J. S.
November - Fragment 1
Cancelled
December - Fragment 1
Shipped to P. H.


Acropora Clathrata Year 2002 Monthly Limited Edition Schedule

October - Fragment 1
Shipped to S. T.
October - Fragment 2
Shipped to C. C.
November - Fragment 1
Cancelled
November - Fragment 2
Shipped to Paul
December - Fragment 1
Cancelled
December - Fragment 2
Shipped to James


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