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    Purple Blue Xenia

    I don't anticipate that it is a "New" species but possibly a different color morph of the cream/white umbellata. The shape, size, pulsing action...seems very much the same as A. umbellata. I have them side by side to make it easier to compare. It's been in my system for a few months now...
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    Purple Blue Xenia

    Here is a close up and better detail on this coral. Rafael
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    Purple Blue Xenia

    I hear you, but I have no plans of distributing any of it at the moment until I can verify its final color under my lights. It would be nice to know its natural distribution as well, but I'm not too hopeful on that one. The stores and wholesalers are useless for the most part when it comes to...
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    Purple Blue Xenia

    Like I said to you in my earlier post, I do agree that color can intesify and change when given different lighting. It happens all the time when we get a brown acro and turn it intense purple. This is possible because the coral may not have been given the proper care (lighting, water...
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    Purple Blue Xenia

    Jack, No, what I am saying is that I have the regular Red Sea Xenia as well as elongata and what I call Fiji Pom Pom (larger white with golden pinule xenia) in my care for many years under different lighting and none have ever shown any hint of blue or purple. But in the case of this Xenia...
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    Purple Blue Xenia

    VHO Guy, Very true, but I have never been able to turn white/cream color umbellata into blue or purple. Not even close. And I have been growing it for a good 10 or 12 years now under HOs, VHOs, PCs and Halides with most of the different color temp bulbs. Rafael
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    Purple Blue Xenia

    Anthony, Thanks for your quick response. Forgive me but I'm not clear on what you are saying though. Are you saying that it is a variant of the common umbellata that turns blue when grown under VHOs? Or are you saying that it's a different but common species that turns blue under bluer...
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    Purple Blue Xenia

    Just watching the color for now (It has developed into a richer purple under VHOs) and trying to contain my excitement, but I think it is a very unique color morph. I have done quite a bit of research online and on printed material and have not seen it. What I have seen called blue xenia(Not...
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    Purple Blue Xenia

    Hi Anthony, I have come across a color morph of Xenia that I have not seen before; it looks like a Red Sea (Xenia Umbellata) but a bit more feathery. Its color is a purple blue mix. I have included the regular Red Sea form as well as X. elongata in this composite picture so that you can see...
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    New tank pics from tonight.

    Then that makes it less likely that it is a Miami Orchid. It's not impossible that more have come in from the wild, but I haven't seen another since I received it years ago. But many have been distributed from many F generation aquacultured frags.
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    New tank pics from tonight.

    That unknow coral looks similar to the Miami Orchid. Do you have any info on it's source? Did it come strait from the wild or was it aquacultured? That other one looks like A. Granulosa to me as well.
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    Phoenix bulbs and sps

    Don't know if you solved your issue but here are my 2 cents. I switched from AB 10k DE to 14k Phoenix about 8 months ago and haven't had any negative effects. Most of the corals are showing better coloration. Growth seems very good as well. The corals are in 10 inch deep growout vats about...
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