Psammocora corals are encrusting and massive stony corals. We have seen a few color morphs
of the Psammocora superficialis within the captive market such as green, red and blue. A new
solid orange colored morph began to be imported into the U.S. in late 2005 and early 2006. We
have heard of the existance of only a few of these orange colonies. One of the first orange Psammocora corals sold
online was acquired by Clint Conway of
Diamonds in the Reef . Reeffarmers recieved our seed fragment of the orange Psammcora within
a shipment of coral frags from Clint Conway. This is a very easy to keep reef building stony coral.
Steve Tyree is maintaining a farmed section of this coral for reeffarmers.com in one of his 125
gallon naturally filtered Tri-Zonal Reef Aquariums. In Steve's captive reef the coral is
positoned to recieve weak light levels under a 400 watt 20,000 K Radium Metal Halide. Limited
Edition Reservation price for fragment is currently $55 per small sized fragment. The bimonthly
limited edition reservation schedules can be found below.
Orange Psammocora superficialis Diamonds in the Reef Parent Colony.
We are starting to see solid orange colored Psammocora corals in the captive market.
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