Post your Batunai pics if you got 'em

SteezySPS · May 25, 2011

Would like to see some aquacultured pieces. If you have them pls share.
I'll start off with a picture of my friend's colony

nikesb · May 25, 2011

thats sick. the frags of these look nothing like mature colonies

SteezySPS · May 25, 2011

Then i better ask my friend for a bigger frag! LOL

cmcneil · May 25, 2011

beautiful colony steezy,bantunai are one of my favorite sps but they are hard to find around here.i have been looking for one locally for a while to no avail.

Dave3112 · May 25, 2011

That first picture looks a lot like my ORA Pearlberry. But the second pic really looks AMAZING! I need to try and find one of those!

Y-Diver · May 25, 2011

That is Bad A! I would love to have one!

clowns101 · May 25, 2011

Sweet acropora!I like it alot!Does look alot like Pearlberry in first pic!But second pics blew me away!lol

cmcneil · May 25, 2011

The second top down pic really shows the Coralite structure off which makes the acropora bantunai unique.some of them are really awesome looking in color and they usually have that pastel base color and vivid colored tips.what color is that bantunai Steezy?it looks purplish with darker colored tips.

swordfight · May 26, 2011

WHOA! Never seen a coral like that before, where does it come from?

The growth is out of the ordinary compared to your other branching SPS's.
The coralites grow in a clustered way.

SteezySPS · May 26, 2011

That colony looks white with dark and light purple radial corallites in person. He has a huge pearlberry colony to the left of it and it looks nothing alike. The batunai has very interesting growth and bright polyps. Veron says it's from protected shallow reefs and uncommon.

cmcneil · May 26, 2011

SteezySPS said:
That colony looks white with dark and light purple radial corallites in person. He has a huge pearlberry colony to the left of it and it looks nothing alike. The batunai has very interesting growth and bright polyps. Veron says it's from protected shallow reefs and uncommon.

yup not many stores even sell frags of it since they dont come in often.there was one place that sold frags of a bantunai but i cant remember who off the top of my head.