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Limited Edition -
Eddies Purple Monster

Retired February 2005 !


Eddies Purple Monster

Reeffarmers.com acquired a fragment of this 'Purple Monster' like coral from Eddie Hanson of Tropical Paradise. Eddie acquired the coral from Bali in January 2004. He belives the species is Acropora lokani. Reeffarmers thinks that the Purple Monsters from Bali are very close to the original Purple Monster that was exported from the Solomon Islands. There are however some differences. This Bali Purple Monster has branches that can slightly taper at the tips and branches tend to be thinner. The Solomons Purple Monster does not have tapering branch ends and branches tend to be thicker. The branch ends on the Solomons purple monster are more rounded. The Solomons PM also develops a more bluer purple while the Bali PM develops a more redder purple coloration. We believe Eddies Purple Monster represents the Bali version of the Purple Monster Type of stony corals. There is also a Fiji Purple Monster Type and even a Tonga Purple Monster Type. The Fiji is more Loripes-like with thinner branches while the Tonga has more thicker branches and is more austera-like. Steve Tyree is maintaining this coral for reeffarmers.com in a 125 gallon naturally filtered TriZonal system. In Steve's captive reef the coral is positoned 17 inches below a 400 watt 20,000 K Radium Metal Halide. This coral is now coloring up very well and has begun to grow. Reeffarmers suspects that this coral is sensitive to the Red Acro bugs. We eliminated these bugs from the system with the interceptor drug in June of 2004. You can examine the closeup picture of this colony to verify the elimination of the red acro bugs in this system. Water current is moderate. Price is currently $80 per small sized fragment. The bimonthly limited edition reservation schedules can be found below.

CORAL RETIRED February 2005. Reeffarmers.com decided to retire the Limited Edition coral Acropora sp. Eddies Purple Monster during February of 2005. This was done because of a calamity of errors that may have resulted in the loss of all living sections of this LE coral. There is only perhaps two fragments out there that may have survived. Even the original colony possessed by Eddie of Tropical Paradise is no longer available. It may have been stolen from his retail reef shop. The large fragment that reeffarmers.com was harvesting from was basically over harvested and the remaining tiny frag was lost. Of the three fragments we distributed only two may be still surviving. If we discover that a living fragment of this coral remains, we will attempt to acquire a fragment and may even reinstate this as an active LE coral. If anyone who recieved a Limited Edition fragment of this coral and still has the fragment living, please send us your email or web site link. We will add your email or web link to the Limited Edition History listed below and may contact you to acquire a fragment of this coral.

Eddies Purple Monster Year 2005 BiMonthly Limited Edition Schedule

January
Cancelled
March
Cancelled
May
Cancelled
July
Cancelled
September
Cancelled
November
Cancelled


Eddies Purple Monster Year 2006 BiMonthly Limited Edition Schedule

January
Cancelled
March
Cancelled
May
Cancelled
July
Cancelled
September
Cancelled
November
Cancelled


Eddies Purple Monster Year 2007 BiMonthly Limited Edition Schedule

January
Cancelled
March
Cancelled
May
Cancelled
July
Cancelled
September
Cancelled
November
Cancelled


Eddies Purple Monster Year 2008 BiMonthly Limited Edition Schedule

January
Cancelled
March
Cancelled
May
Cancelled
July
Cancelled
September
Cancelled
November
Cancelled


Eddies Purple Monster Year 2004 BiMonthly Limited Edition Schedule

September
Shipped to L. Lau
November
Shipped to A. Deukmedjian


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