Hello all,

Time for a stock update! We are adding oodles of new pieces to the site today. Finally, additional SPS is being added to the site! 🙂 First, the news. Then, the new products!

New farmers

We’ve added two new farmers to ExoticFrags on this update as well. One of which is Hydro Innovations, welcome!

Our other new farmer, a local farmer, has decided to run a promotion on their newly listed corals. Buy 4, get 1 free! This is an excellent chance to get a collection of tank raised SPS (and some LPS too!) that is new to our site . The free coral is of course the least expensive of your 5 choices. (Typical sale rules, eh?) Feel free to take advantage of this multiple times. A list of participating corals can be seen here: “Buy 4, get 1 free” sale corals

Email issues

We experienced some email technical difficulties while upgrading the backbone of our website. This occurred from August 12th through August 23rd. We were able to recover most of the lost emails, but not all of them. If you contacted us during that time frame and we did not reply, our apologies! The issue is all ironed out now. Please drop us another line and we’ll get back to you ASAP. For the techies out there (myself included!): It had to do with an IP address change vs. an IP address authenticated email management software package (amongst other authentication mechanisms).

Seeking the following

We’re in need of quite a bit of drygoods and our list of livegoods that we are looking for never ends! 🙂 If you’ve got anything on this list that you aren’t using or would consider parting with, drop us a line. We’d love to trade! One of the more interesting things on the list are some iPod touches! (or iPhones) Yup – reef related. We want to use them to monitor several tanks at remote locations. 🙂 That new iPod touch comes out next week, no? Are you considering upgrading? We could use your old iPod Touch! Or perhaps you have an iPhone 3GS laying around since that iPhone 4 upgrade… We could use that too! See the details below.

  • Dry Goods that we are seeking
    • iPod Touch and/or iPhone. Odd request, eh? This is for various tank monitoring applications. I’m seeking a 2nd Generation iPod Touch, and a few 3rd Generation iPod Touch and/or iPhone 3GS. I’m not interested in the cellular aspect of the iPhone. So if you’ve got one that works except the cell part, we may be able to work something out. I do need the wifi portion to work though. I figure there are probably quite a few folks out there that upgraded to the iPhone 4 or are planning on upgrading to the new iPod Touch coming out soon (next week, right?) that may be interested in parting w/ their old one for some nice corals! 🙂
    • ATB Cone Skimmer – Small
    • BubbleKing Mini 200 Skimmer
    • Vortech MP40W Gen 2 (Seeking more than 1, if you’ve got them!)
    • Eheim 1262 in New or Like-New condition (Seeking more than 1, if you’ve got them!)
    • 48″ ATI Powermodule T5 light (at least 6 bulb) (Seeking more than 1, if you’ve got them!)
    • 36″ ATI Powermodule T5 light (at least 6 bulb)
    • 24″ ATI Powermodule T5 light (at least 6 bulb)
    • Tunze 6055 New Generation in New or Like-New condition (Seeking more than 1, if you’ve got them!)
    • Profilux GHL Doser (3 or 4 pump model)
  • Live Goods that we are seeking
    • Armageddon Palys
    • Soprano Palys
    • Serene Nova Zoanthids
    • FNF Jabawaki Echino
    • Immolation Echino

NEW products:


KO Nightmare – SM

KO Nightmare – SM: (Similar Morph) Only one frag available! WYSIWYG

Other common names include KO Nightmare – SM, KO Nightmare – SMs, KO Nightmare – SM Zoa, KO Nightmare – SM Zoanthid, KO Nightmare – SM Paly, KO Nightmare – SM Palys (although it is believed to be a Paly).


Organism Red Paly

Organism Red Paly: Similar, but much redder than the Organism Paly. Only one frag available! WYSIWYG

Other common names include Organism Red Paly, Organism Red Palys, Organism Red Paly Zoa, Organism Red Paly Zoanthid, Organism Red Paly Paly, Organism Red Paly Palys (although it is believed to be a Paly).


Sunset Mille

Sunset Mille: Nice Mille with orange/yellow undertones and green polyps. These are VERY nice 1″ plus frags that have been in captivity for months and are encrusting on their base!


Corbin’s Tort

Corbin’s Tort: A collector in Texas stumbled across this coral. Although it was brown and ugly he bought it because of the interesting growth pattern. The coral took almost a year to completely color up to what it is now which is a metallic emerald green with a blue hue. After seeing what was going to be the final product, the hunt was on to find out where the awesome coral came from and what it was. After hours and hours of research these roads led to a dead end every time. Because this coral is the show piece of the tank, cutting this coral for fragging by typical means is out of the question. Instead, fragging is done by breaking single coralites off of the colony and growing them for at least 4 months before they are ready to sell. By this time they are encrusting and are at least 1/2″ tall. Not many of these frags will be available at a time, only a couple will be released intermittently.


Prism Favia

Prism Favia: Here it is, one of the most popular Aussie Favias!


Purple and Orange Rimmed Plate

Purple and Orange Rimmed Plate: Pretty nifty fungii plate coral. Purple with an Orange rim and center. WYSIWYG


Purple and Green Brain

Purple and Green Brain: Nice purple and green brain. HUGE! WYSIWYG


Mint Green Blasto

Mint Green Blasto: Very nice sized Mint Green to Flourescent Green Blasto. WYSIWYG


Rainbow Acan – Ultra 1

Rainbow Acan – Ultra 1: Orange, yellow, green, red – INCREDIBLE! WYSIWYG


Rainbow Acan – Ultra 2

Rainbow Acan – Ultra 2: Orange, yellow, green, red, purple, pink – nice! WYSIWYG


Rainbow Acan – Ultra 3

Rainbow Acan – Ultra 3: Orange, yellow, green, red, purple – nice! WYSIWYG


Violet Teal-center Shroom

Violet Teal-center Shroom: Very nifty blue/purple/violet colored shroom with a surprising teal center! WYSIWYG (Note: it is the shroom only, not the adjascent Zoanthids.)


Swollen Pickle

Swollen Pickle: These palys get pretty dang… Swollen! 🙂 I’m still verifying the name on this guy, but hoping this sticks. 😉

Other common names include Swollen Pickle, Swollen Pickles, Swollen Pickle Zoa, Swollen Pickle Zoanthid, Swollen Pickle Paly, Swollen Pickle Palys (although it is believed to be a Paly).


Name Pending!

Name Pending!:Verifying the name on these guys, will report back when the research is complete!

Other common names include Name Pending!, Name Pending!s, Name Pending! Zoa, Name Pending! Zoanthid, Name Pending! Paly, Name Pending! Palys (although it is believed to be a Paly).


Clove Polyp – Green center, orange stripe

Clove Polyp – Green center, orange stripe: One of the brightest clove polyps – TANK RAISED! These go back to the day of tubs, years ago!


Red Rimmed Favites

Red Rimmed Favites: Red Rimmed Favites – very exotic!


Purple Green Acro

Purple Green Acro: We are working on the name for this guy, but wanted to get it online. This is from a new local farmer who grew this from a small fragment! TANK RAISED! HUGE 2″ frags! Beautiful intense purple with Intense Green polyps from the top, light purple with light green polyps from the side.

Part of the buy 4 get 1 free sale! Details in this blog post. Participating corals here.


Hybrid Watermelon Style Echino

Hybrid Watermelon Style Echino: We are working on the name and/or lineage for this guy, but wanted to get it online. This is from a new local farmer who grew this from a small fragment! TANK RAISED! Appears to be a hybrid watermelon of sorts.

Part of the buy 4 get 1 free sale! Details in this blog post. Participating corals here.


Slimer Echino

Slimer Echino: Remember that ghost in Ghostbusters? 😀 This is from a new local farmer who grew this from a small fragment! TANK RAISED!

Part of the buy 4 get 1 free sale! Details in this blog post. Participating corals here.


Multi Color Stylo

Multi Color Stylo: We are working on the name for this guy, but wanted to get it online. This is from a new local farmer who grew this from a small fragment! TANK RAISED! 1″ frags! Beautiful colors!

Part of the buy 4 get 1 free sale! Details in this blog post. Participating corals here.


ORA Birds of Paradise

ORA Birds of Paradise: Purple polyp, bright yellow/green base. Good grower. 1.25″ frags!

Part of the buy 4 get 1 free sale! Details in this blog post. Participating corals here.


Joker Mille

Joker Mille: I’m really diggin this Mille! Believe it or not, this is a ‘bad’ shot. It is placed in the back of the display tank and was difficult to photo. The thing is gorgeous. Grown from a small fragment! Gotta have this and the Bubblegum Mille! 3/4″ frags

Part of the buy 4 get 1 free sale! Details in this blog post. Participating corals here.


Blue Teal Purple Acro

Blue Teal Purple Acro: We are working on the name for this guy, but wanted to get it online. This is from a new local farmer who grew this from a small fragment! TANK RAISED! 3/4″ frags.

Part of the buy 4 get 1 free sale! Details in this blog post. Participating corals here.


Mint Purple Cream Acro

Mint Purple Cream Acro: We are working on the name for this guy, but wanted to get it online. This is from a new local farmer who grew this from a small fragment! TANK RAISED! 3/4″ frags.

Part of the buy 4 get 1 free sale! Details in this blog post. Participating corals here.


Green Cream Acro

Green Cream Acro: We are working on the name for this guy, but wanted to get it online. This is from a new local farmer who grew this from a small fragment! TANK RAISED! 1.25″ frags.

Part of the buy 4 get 1 free sale! Details in this blog post. Participating corals here.


Mint Green Purple Tip Acro

Mint Green Purple Tip Acro: We are working on the name for this guy, but wanted to get it online. This is from a new local farmer who grew this from a small fragment! TANK RAISED! 1″ frags.

Part of the buy 4 get 1 free sale! Details in this blog post. Participating corals here.


Blue Teal Violet Acro

Blue Teal Violet Acro: We are working on the name for this guy, but wanted to get it online. This is from a new local farmer who grew this from a small fragment! TANK RAISED! 1″ frags.

Part of the buy 4 get 1 free sale! Details in this blog post. Participating corals here.


Flourescent Green Acro

Flourescent Green Acro: We are working on the name for this guy, but wanted to get it online. This is from a new local farmer who grew this from a small fragment! TANK RAISED! 1″ frags.

Part of the buy 4 get 1 free sale! Details in this blog post. Participating corals here.


Light Blue Polyp Stylo

Light Blue Polyp Stylo: We are working on the name for this guy, but wanted to get it online. This is from a new local farmer who grew this from a small fragment! TANK RAISED! HUGE 2″ frags!

Part of the buy 4 get 1 free sale! Details in this blog post. Participating corals here.

Updates and/or new availability to existing products:


Red Watermill

Red Watermill: A pretty cool Zoanthid! Nice and bright. We had a group of these several months ago, but they did not survive the shipping. They are finally back, yay!

Other common names include Red Watermill, Red Watermills, Red Watermill Zoa, Red Watermill Zoanthid, Red Watermill Paly, Red Watermill Palys (although it is believed to be a Zoanthid).


RPE

RPE: (Red People Eater) A classic gorgeous red Paly! We have been growing these out. And on top of that, just as we are ready to release them on the site again, we got a new group in!

Other common names include RPE, RPEs, RPE Zoa, RPE Zoanthid, RPE Paly, RPE Palys (although it is believed to be a Paly).


Plate Coral

Plate Coral: Updated photos now available. Check out that stem that it is growing on! This is a nifty ~1″ (closer to 7/8″) plate! (Cycloseris sp.) This guy is very… What’s the word I’m looking for… Cute! 🙂 It actually stands up on a ‘stem’ about 1/2 off the base rock. I wouldn’t mind this sticking around in my tank a while before it ships out to a very lucky customer. 😉 WYSIWYG

Thanks,

-Jeremy