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Limited Edition Corals from Reeffarmers.com are rare and exotic corals that are distributed on a limited basis only. Typically these rare organisms produce only a specific amount of offspring per month. The reeffarmers who distribute through reeffarmers.com only distribute a limited quantity of these organisms. Buyers are able to reserve future offspring of these limited editions online. Their current reserved status can be checked through these pages. Cancelled past reservations are auctioned exclusively by Tropical Reef Oasis.
Limited Edition Montipora aquituberculata Cancelled LE Auction April 19, 2005 The Montipora aquituberculata is a very unique species of plating, whorling and scrolling Montipora. It has an incredibly screaming green coloration. Edges can be colored white. The very unique part of this coral, besides its intense coloration, is that this plating Montipora can also grow vertical branches that coral biologist refer to as nodules. The picture above is the typical growth forms that this coral grows into. Below this text there are two pictures of the coral in two distinct and extreme growth forms. One has a very large vertical branch or nodule, while the other happens to have only a couple of small nodules. All of the currently farmed colonies of these corals originated from captive grown fragments distribued by Clayton Romi of Coral Gardens (Centre for Coral Aquaculture). Clayton orginally picked up the coral way back in 1994. Steve Tyree also acquired a speciman of this coral back in the mid to late 1990's. In fact, the first book Steve wrote about Reef Building Stony Corals, had a picture of this species of coral on its cover. The coral in that shot was kept in a reef that was run by Nelson Seeley. We do not remember where Nelson acquired his particular speciman. It may have come from Steve Tyree's or Clayton Romi's speciman. The potential this coral has to form exotic growth forms in captivity is great. We would love to see someone produce a completely branching growth form of this coral constructed of nodules. This is however a debate about what conditions stimulate the coral to develop nodule growths in addition to its plating form. Will strong light and strong current develop nodule growths or will weak current and weak light develop the growths ? In general the coral seems to require moderate ligthing with moderate current. This coral is currently being farmed by Steve Tyree and it is located within one of his 125 gallon naturally filtered Tri-Zonal EG reefs. Fragments consist of plates attached to small rocks. ReefFarmers.com is allowed to distribute 1 farmed fragment of this coral per month. Reservation price is currently $75 per small sized fragment. This cancellation is from July 2004. Picture of actual auction fragment
Limited Edition Acropora sp. Purple Unknown Cancelled LE Auction LECombo April 27, 2005 This cancelled reservation auction is for October 2004 Acropora sp. Purple Unknown. We have been holding this fragment for so long that we actually now have to auction it as an extremelly rare LECOMBO. Attached to the lower section of the Purple Unknowns base rock is another LE coral called the Montipora sp. Blue Polyps. Our mother colony actually grew and attached itself to the base of this Purple Unknown. What makes this combo even more interesting is that the Purple Unknown is known for developing extensive plating growths. What happened in this case is the Purple Unknown has actually begun to plate above or tier above the Montipora sp. Blue Polyp. This is extremelly rare. It will be interesting to document how this combo grows over time. We had to cut this combo from the parent colony of our Montipora sp. Blue Polyp LE. We have included two images. One image is before we separated the two (lecombo_beforeseperation). The other image is after the two were seperated with a dremel (lecombo_afterseperation). We left enough of the Montipora sp. Blue Polyp so that it will continue to grow in a tier fashion below the Purple Unknown Acro LE. Starting auction price will be $75 Picture of actual auction fragment
CancelledLE ??? Cancelled LE Auction May 2005

Limited Edition Corals from Reeffarmers.com are rare and exotic corals that are distributed on a limited basis only. Typically these rare organisms produce only a specific amount of offspring per month. The reeffarmers who distribute through reeffarmers.com only distribute a limited quantity of these organisms. Buyers are able to reserve future offspring of these limited editions online. Their current reserved status can be checked through these pages. Cancelled past reservations are auctioned exclusively by Tropical Reef Oasis.

Limited Edition Montipora aquituberculata
Cancelled LE Auction
April 19, 2005

The Montipora aquituberculata is a very unique species of plating, whorling and scrolling Montipora. It has an incredibly screaming green coloration. Edges can be colored white. The very unique part of this coral, besides its intense coloration, is that this plating Montipora can also grow vertical branches that coral biologist refer to as nodules. The picture above is the typical growth forms that this coral grows into. Below this text there are two pictures of the coral in two distinct and extreme growth forms. One has a very large vertical branch or nodule, while the other happens to have only a couple of small nodules. All of the currently farmed colonies of these corals originated from captive grown fragments distribued by Clayton Romi of Coral Gardens (Centre for Coral Aquaculture). Clayton orginally picked up the coral way back in 1994. Steve Tyree also acquired a speciman of this coral back in the mid to late 1990's. In fact, the first book Steve wrote about Reef Building Stony Corals, had a picture of this species of coral on its cover. The coral in that shot was kept in a reef that was run by Nelson Seeley. We do not remember where Nelson acquired his particular speciman. It may have come from Steve Tyree's or Clayton Romi's speciman. The potential this coral has to form exotic growth forms in captivity is great. We would love to see someone produce a completely branching growth form of this coral constructed of nodules. This is however a debate about what conditions stimulate the coral to develop nodule growths in addition to its plating form. Will strong light and strong current develop nodule growths or will weak current and weak light develop the growths ? In general the coral seems to require moderate ligthing with moderate current. This coral is currently being farmed by Steve Tyree and it is located within one of his 125 gallon naturally filtered Tri-Zonal EG reefs. Fragments consist of plates attached to small rocks. ReefFarmers.com is allowed to distribute 1 farmed fragment of this coral per month. Reservation price is currently $75 per small sized fragment. This cancellation is from July 2004.

Picture of actual auction fragment

Limited Edition Acropora sp. Purple Unknown
Cancelled LE Auction
LECombo
April 27, 2005

This cancelled reservation auction is for October 2004 Acropora sp. Purple Unknown. We have been holding this fragment for so long that we actually now have to auction it as an extremelly rare LECOMBO. Attached to the lower section of the Purple Unknowns base rock is another LE coral called the Montipora sp. Blue Polyps. Our mother colony actually grew and attached itself to the base of this Purple Unknown. What makes this combo even more interesting is that the Purple Unknown is known for developing extensive plating growths. What happened in this case is the Purple Unknown has actually begun to plate above or tier above the Montipora sp. Blue Polyp. This is extremelly rare. It will be interesting to document how this combo grows over time. We had to cut this combo from the parent colony of our Montipora sp. Blue Polyp LE. We have included two images. One image is before we separated the two (lecombo_beforeseperation). The other image is after the two were seperated with a dremel (lecombo_afterseperation). We left enough of the Montipora sp. Blue Polyp so that it will continue to grow in a tier fashion below the Purple Unknown Acro LE. Starting auction price will be $75

Picture of actual auction fragment

CancelledLE ???
Cancelled LE Auction
May 2005

Reeffarmers Reservation cancellation Policy - Occasionally we get reservation cancellations. On the reservation schedule cancellations are handled many different ways. If the coral is producing fragments at rates that keep up with the schedule and the reservation date is in the future, it will be marked available. If the coral is producing fragments at rates that keep up with the schedule and the reservation date is within a few months of current, it will offerred to a private cancellation email list. If the coral is producing fragments at rates that keep up with the schedule and the reservation date is in the past, the reservation and fragment will be sold to the reef company Tropical Reef Oasis. They will auction the reservation and fragment on Ebay. If the coral is not producing fragments at rates that keep up with the schedule and the reservation is within a few months of the current date, the reservation for that month will be cancelled and will not be available to reef aquarists. If the coral is not producing fragments at rates that keep up with the schedule and the reservation is more then a few months in the future, the reservation for that month will be made available to reef aquarists. Reeffarmers.com reserves the right to cancel any and all reservations due to the loss of a parent colony or colonies or due to the inability to contact the aquarist who has the reservation.

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