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Sometimes people refer to Blue Ridge coral as Blue Fire Coral. That is why you are not finding information on BLue Fire Coral
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The Blue Ridge Coral, sometimes referred to as the Blue Coral, is often mistaken for a small polyp stony (SPS) coral because it has a hard blue exoskeleton with long, thin polyps. It really is an octocoral (soft coral) and its growth forms are branching, plate-like, columnar, or encrusting. Its body is composed of calcium carbonate and iron salts, which lend its distinctive blue color. However, the polyps are either brown or light blue. They are an interesting and peacefull coral that will add diversity to your reef aquarium. The Blue Ridge Coral is generally peaceful towards other corals in the reef aquarium and will do best added to a well-established tank. It requires moderate to high lighting with a medium to strong water current in the aquarium. Calcium, strontium, iodine, and other trace elements will need to be added to the water.
It contains the symbiotic algae zooxanthellae from which it receives the majority of its nutritional requirements through photosynthesis. It does not require additional food to maintain its health in the reef aquarium, but it will benefit from the addition of zooplankton.
The Blue Ridge Coral, sometimes referred to as the Blue Coral, is often mistaken for a small polyp stony (SPS) coral because it has a hard blue exoskeleton with long, thin polyps. It really is an octocoral (soft coral) and its growth forms are branching, plate-like, columnar, or encrusting. Its body is composed of calcium carbonate and iron salts, which lend its distinctive blue color. However, the polyps are either brown or light blue. They are an interesting and peacefull coral that will add diversity to your reef aquarium. The Blue Ridge Coral is generally peaceful towards other corals in the reef aquarium and will do best added to a well-established tank. It requires moderate to high lighting with a medium to strong water current in the aquarium. Calcium, strontium, iodine, and other trace elements will need to be added to the water.
It contains the symbiotic algae zooxanthellae from which it receives the majority of its nutritional requirements through photosynthesis. It does not require additional food to maintain its health in the reef aquarium, but it will benefit from the addition of zooplankton.
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chrisjj625
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again it is not blue ridge coral
Stylaster sp. "Purple Fire Coral" | Corals & Invertebrates | Your Choice - WYSIWYG | Aquarium Livestock - ThatPetPlace.com
it looks kinda like that but much more blue
Stylaster sp. "Purple Fire Coral" | Corals & Invertebrates | Your Choice - WYSIWYG | Aquarium Livestock - ThatPetPlace.com
it looks kinda like that but much more blue
What you have is a Stylaster or Distichopora species, sometimes reffered to as "blue fire coral" (as they resemble the shape of commonly seen Millepora sp., a.k.a. "fire coral"), also sometimes reffered to as "lace coral". Both genuses are non-photosynthetic and require minute particluate matter to feed off of, likely needing to be continuously fed as with Dendronepthya and Scleronepthya species.
Lighting is unecessary as they're non-photosynthetic, feeding is still trivial (in that we don't know exactly what they eat in the wild) so your best bet is to offer various foods continuosly dosed, and thriving, well... good luck! There are several of the most skilled non-photosynthetic aquarists in the world attempting to keep these long term and they have a thread going on RC in the non-photosynthetic forum. Unfortunately there is no reports of long term success with either of these genuses.
Lighting is unecessary as they're non-photosynthetic, feeding is still trivial (in that we don't know exactly what they eat in the wild) so your best bet is to offer various foods continuosly dosed, and thriving, well... good luck! There are several of the most skilled non-photosynthetic aquarists in the world attempting to keep these long term and they have a thread going on RC in the non-photosynthetic forum. Unfortunately there is no reports of long term success with either of these genuses.
Distichopora: Let me google that for you
Stylaster: Let me google that for you
Click images.
They're often mis-IDed as each other and certain species resemble each other very closely. For the most part, care is thoguht to be very similar.
Stylaster: Let me google that for you
Click images.
They're often mis-IDed as each other and certain species resemble each other very closely. For the most part, care is thoguht to be very similar.
No idea on that but where did you get it I want some.....lol
No, it will not sting you.
Most LFS can bring these in, or they offer them on Live Aquaria semi-frequently. It's a shame we don't know more about them as they're an absolutely gorgeous coral, unfortunately they slowly perish over time. I'm sure there will be some success with them sooner than later though...
Most LFS can bring these in, or they offer them on Live Aquaria semi-frequently. It's a shame we don't know more about them as they're an absolutely gorgeous coral, unfortunately they slowly perish over time. I'm sure there will be some success with them sooner than later though...
