Blasto

[Scott Bice]

So I just bought this for my local fish store I paid 140 bucks which seemed a lot for the coral. Got in trouble from the wife. Lol and i just wanted to know what it was if it's fragable and or desirable. I hope the picture comes through okay I'm just using my smartphone

 

[Jon Fishman]

You just bought it, and you want to know if you can cut it up and sell it?

It looks like 9 heads of acon or favia or whatever, at $14.99 / head plus tax.

 

[Scott Bice]

You just bought it, and you want to know if you can cut it up and sell it?

It looks like 9 heads of acon or favia or whatever, at $14.99 / head plus tax.

Hmm kinda like it's been cut up in such a way that there's a lot of open area to grow new heads. So if it did really start to take off would this type of coral be desirable for an LPS. From everything that I can find it looks like a blastomussa. Super hot pink and the lower head is crazy bright light green.

O and it has 10 heads on it with one baby way in the back.

 

[AlexWBryant]

Depending on size and rarity, a Blasto Merletti will run $10 - $50 a head. roughly.
Depending on size and rarity, a Blasto Wellsi will run $10 - $90 a head. roughly.

To me, these look like somewhat average colors, and a decent sized 9 head colony. Cannot tell you which type these are. Wellsi is usually a bit bigger from my limited understanding.

 

[McFly]

Looks like a standard blasto, $140 for a colony with 9 heads is probably about right.

 

[Scott Bice]

Depending on size and rarity, a Blasto Merletti will run $10 - $50 a head. roughly.
Depending on size and rarity, a Blasto Wellsi will run $10 - $90 a head. roughly.

To me, these look like somewhat average colors, and a decent sized 9 head colony. Cannot tell you which type these are. Wellsi is usually a bit bigger from my limited understanding.

How can I tell the difference? Is it by the skeleton or the actual polyp and how big it gets

 

[McFly]

Merletti has much smaller heads, yours looks like a Wellsi.

I had a Wellsi for a while and it never did well. I still have a Merletti and it grows pretty slow.

 

[Scott Bice]

Merletti has much smaller heads, yours looks like a Wellsi.

I had a Wellsi for a while and it never did well. I still have a Merletti and it grows pretty slow.

Well dam. I thought I did ***** good. How r u treating your? Flow, light, and water... Mine is bottom (duh you can see it in the sand) with high flows way above it I'm guessing pretty low flow. Mp40 18 inch way and pushing water in the top of the water column. 10ppm nitrate and .3 phosphate. 1.026 and 78f. Cal390 mag1400ish 162ppm alk

I know the phosphates r a little high right now but I'm GFOing right now. So I'm trying to head in the right direction with that. O it's a 120 gal tank

 

[McFly]

$140 for a colony with 9 heads is not a rip off, IMO. That's probably what my LFS would charge.

I would treat it like a Duncan, low/medium flow, medium light. My Merletti blasto I keep at the bottom of my tank, next to my acans. Its been slowly growing for about 4 years, I got it half dead with 3 chewed up heads and its a small colony now with probably 40+ heads. It's almost the size of a tennis ball cut in half.

 

[Scott Bice]

$140 for a colony with 9 heads is not a rip off, IMO. That's probably what my LFS would charge.

I would treat it like a Duncan, low/medium flow, medium light. My Merletti blasto I keep at the bottom of my tank, next to my acans. Its been slowly growing for about 4 years, I got it half dead with 3 chewed up heads and its a small colony now with probably 40+ heads. It's almost the size of a tennis ball cut in half.

That's really good id love to see this thing the size of a soft ball. Anyone out there with this type of success? I always love coral ****

 

[adrianr514]

That's really good id love to see this thing the size of a soft ball. Anyone out there with this type of success? I always love coral ****

I target feed smaller mysis to each head and keep it in a more shaded area and it’s steadily growing.