Stock update, August 22 – Zoas, Scoly, Shrooms, Hammers, more!

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Oodles of new pieces have been added to the site, come check them out!

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Updates and/or new availability to existing products:



Belladonna

Belladonna:ย  the meaning of the word is ‘Beautiful Woman’. This is certainly a Beautiful Zoa!

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


Pastel Rainbow

Pastel Rainbow: They’re back! Sometimes the name just fits. This is not one of those times. Er wait. This is EXACTLYย one of those times! This Paly can morph depending on tank parameters. Included are photos from different tanks.

Other common names include Pastel Rainbow, Pastel Rainbows, Pastel Rainbow Zoa, Pastel Rainbow Zoanthid, Pastel Rainbow Paly, Pastel Rainbow Palys (although it is believed to be a Paly).


Magician

Magician: Illusion, smoke and mirrors… The ever-popular Magicians!

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


Australian Blue Ensign

Australian Blue Ensign: The Australian flag went through a lot of revisions before the Australian Blue Ensign was finalized. I’d like to think that this would be the national Australian Zoanthid upon first consideration. You can almost see the 6 stars in this frag shot! Very beautiful morph. Note: I used to consider this a small Zoanthid morph. But they’ve been getting larger having been in captivity longer. I now consider them a typical sized to slightly smaller than typical sized Zoa morph. (No longer to I consider them ‘small’.)

Other common names include Australian Blue Ensign, Australian Blue Ensigns, Australian Blue Ensign Zoa, Australian Blue Ensign Zoanthid, Australian Blue Ensign Paly, Australian Blue Ensign Palys (although it is believed to be a Zoanthid).

NEW products:



Scoly – Master series 1

Scoly – Master series 1: Incredible ~ 3.25″ Master Series Scoly! Striking Blue/Purple and Orange/Red and Green patterns. Our Master Series Scolys are our most choice Scolys chosen for their extremely nice colors/patterns. Very limited in availability. WYSIWYG


Scoly – Master series 2

Scoly – Master series 2: Incredible ~1.75″ Master Series Scoly! Purple, Green, Red, Orange. Our Master Series Scolys are our most choice Scolys chosen for their extremely nice colors/patterns. Very limited in availability. WYSIWYG


Scoly – Master series 3

Scoly – Master series 3: Incredible ~2.5″ Master Series Scoly! Red, Orange, Green, and… Lavendar/Pink!!! Our Master Series Scolys are our most choice Scolys chosen for their extremely nice colors/patterns. Very limited in availability. WYSIWYG


Scoly – Master series 4

Scoly – Master series 4: Incredible ~3.25″ Master Series Scoly! Green, Orange, Mint Green, Purple. Our Master Series Scolys are our most choice Scolys chosen for their extremely nice colors/patterns. Very limited in availability. WYSIWYG


Scoly – Master series 5

Scoly – Master series 5: Incredible ~2.5″ Master Series Scoly! Like in the wild wild west back in 1848: WE FOUND GOLD!!! Gold, Orange, Red, Purple/Blue, Green, Teal. One doesn’t see Scolys with gold in them all that often. Our Master Series Scolys are our most choice Scolys chosen for their extremely nice colors/patterns. Very limited in availability. WYSIWYG


Scoly – Ultra 1

Scoly – Ultra 1: Incredible ~2.25″ Purple/Blue, Light Blue, Orange/Red, small streak of gold in there too. Ultra Series Scoly! Our Ultra Series Scolys earn this name by having excellent colors/patterns. Very limited in availability. WYSIWYG


Scoly – Ultra 2

Scoly – Ultra 2: Incredible ~2.5″ Ultra Series Scoly! Orange/Red, Purple, Mint Green to Baby Blue color, Couple drops of Green. Our Ultra Series Scolys earn this name by having excellent colors/patterns. Very limited in availability. WYSIWYG


Scoly – Ultra 3

Scoly – Ultra 3: Incredible ~2.75″ Ultra Series Scoly! Orange/Red, Green, Mint Green or Baby Blue color, Couple drops of Gold, little bit of Purple too! I wrestled with this one… Perhaps this one belongs in the Master series? ๐Ÿ™‚ Our Ultra Series Scolys earn this name by having excellent colors/patterns. Very limited in availability. WYSIWYG


Scoly – Ultra 4

Scoly – Ultra 4: Incredible ~2.25″ Ultra Series Scoly! Purple, Blue, Orange, Red, Mint Green to Baby Blue color, Couple streaks of Gold too! Our Ultra Series Scolys earn this name by having excellent colors/patterns. Very limited in availability. WYSIWYG


Scoly – Nice 1

Scoly – Nice 1: Very nice ~2.5″ Scoly! Orange/Red, Purple, Mint Green to Baby Blue color. Awesome pattern! WYSIWYG


Scoly – Nice 2

Scoly – Nice 2: Very nice ~2.5″ Scoly! Purple/Blue, Orange/Red, Mint Green to Baby Blue color. Awesome Pattern! WYSIWYG


Plate Coral

Plate Coral: check out this nifty ~1″ (closer to 7/8″) plate! (Cycloseris sp.) This guy is very… What’s the word I’m looking for… Cute! ๐Ÿ™‚ 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. ๐Ÿ˜‰ WYSIWYG


Purple Pit Blasto

Purple Pit Blasto: Purple/Blue centered Blastomussa Wellsi with a splash of teal green in the middle. Red to orange fringe – awesome! These guys grow out to be about 1.25″ on each head. The pieces we are shipping out vary from ~5/8″ to ~1″ and have been in captivity for a while now.


Dinner Mint Blasto

Dinner Mint Blasto: I’m reminded of those flourescent dinner mints when I see these! Extremely bright (flourescent) green center with a gradient to a mint green. Light and dark Purple/Lavendar fringe – awesome! These guys grow out to be about 1″ on each head. The pieces we are shipping out vary from ~1/2″ to ~3/4″ and have been in captivity for a while now.


Thermal Blasto

Thermal Blasto: Cool center with HOT rim! Extremely bright (flourescent) green center with a gradient to a mint green. Red fringe – awesome! These guys grow out to be about 1.25″ to 1.5″ on each head. The pieces we are shipping out vary from ~1/2″ to ~1.25″ and have been in captivity for a while now.


Solar System Shroom

CDU Solar System Shroom morph: Look up at the sky tonight and you’ll see where this name came from. ๐Ÿ™‚ Gold dots with blue/white/mint-green stripes. WYSIWYG


Orange on Blue Shroom 1

CDU Orange on Blue morph: Blue base with orange dots. WYSIWYG


Orange on Blue Shroom 2

CDU Orange on Blue morph: Blue base with orange dots. WYSIWYG


Ultra Grade Shroom

Ultra grade shroom – check out th eblue background with Orange tipped frills! WYSIWYG


Kryptonite

Kryptonite: The glowing green of Kryptonite… Just don’t put it so close to your Superman montis!

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


Amoeba

Amoeba: Nice little cell there growing on the Zoa!

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


Peacock Paly

CDU Peacock Paly: An awesome showcase of beautiful colors. A bevy of these large polyps can be yours!

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


Peacock Refined Paly

CDU Peacock Refined Paly: Similar to the original Peacock Paly, yet uniquely different, this paly represents a more refined color pattern. A bevy of these large polyps can be yours!

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


Slate Blue Zoa

Slate Blue Zoa: Name says it all here. Missing some blue in your Zoa collection? Nice colored slate blue Zoa here for ya.

Other common names include Slate Blue Zoa, Slate Blue Zoas, Slate Blue Zoa Zoa, Slate Blue Zoa Zoanthid, Slate Blue Zoa Paly, Slate Blue Zoa Palys (although it is believed to be a Zoanthid).


Valentine’s Day Massacre – SM

Valentine’s Day Massacre – SM: (Similar Morph)


Cave of Light

Cave of Light: Remember how that show Lost ended? That was weird.. If that cave-of-light thingy were a Paly, this would be it!

Other common names include Cave of Light, Cave of Lights, Cave of Light Zoa, Cave of Light Zoanthid, Cave of Light Paly, Cave of Light Palys (although it is believed to be a Paly).


Frogspawn – purple green (Non-Branching)

Frogspawn – purple green (Non-Branching): Beautiful purple and green non-branching Frogspawn – Euphyllia divisa (we believe). (The same color combination in branching Frogspawn is also available.)


Hammer – slate orange (Non-Branching)

Hammer – slate orange (Non-Branching): Exquisite slate orange non-branching Hammer – Euphyllia fill-in (we believe).


Rainbow Dazzlers

CDU Rainbow Dazzlers: These will certainly dazzle your mind from down under! Incredible morph.

Other common names include Rainbow Dazzlers, Rainbow Dazzlerss, Rainbow Dazzlers Zoa, Rainbow Dazzlers Zoanthid, Rainbow Dazzlers Paly, Rainbow Dazzlers Palys (although it is believed to be a Paly).


Night Lake

Night Lake: Ever walk around a lake at night? This is what it’s like!

Other common names include Night Lake, Night Lakes, Night Lake Zoa, Night Lake Zoanthid, Night Lake Paly, Night Lake Palys (although it is believed to be a Zoanthid).


Hammer – toxic green (Non-Branching)

Hammer – toxic green (Non-Branching): INSANE bright green hammer! Gorgeous!!! Euphyllia fill-in (we believe).


Hammer – gold (Non-Branching)

Hammer – gold (Non-Branching): INSANE GOLD hammer! Gorgeous!!! I need to take a better photo of this guy. These photos just don’t capture the true beauty! Stay tuned, updated pic soon. Euphyllia fill-in (we believe).


Intense Red Goniopora

Intense Red Goniopora: This is a very intense Red Goniopora. Striking!


Fantastic Orange Leptastrea

Fantastic Orange Leptastrea: Look at this thing. Awesome! Orange eye Leptastrea that can rainbow into green eyes too!


Arctic Ice

Arctic Ice: Brrrr, the Arctic chill… Nice and large paly!

Other common names include Arctic Ice, Arctic Ices, Arctic Ice Zoa, Arctic Ice Zoanthid, Arctic Ice Paly, Arctic Ice Palys (although it is believed to be a Paly).


Scuttlebutt

Scuttlebutt: For some reason, when I saw these guys, they were just staring at me like they knew some rumor I didn’t…

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


Oriflamme

Oriflamme: (awr-uh-flam) Nice intense red to red/orange Aussie Zoanthid.

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

Newsletter 2007-07-14: An Intro and Stock updates

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The Following Post is a newsletter that went out 2007-07-14

Hello, and welcome to the first ExoticFrags.us newsletter!

Subscription Information
Chances are that you are on this list if you were subscribed to John’s (tubs) ExoticReefs.us email list. Perhaps you have already sent an email to us at ExoticFrags.us, or perhaps you have expressed interest to us in frags. In any case – welcome, and thank you!

Explanation of ExoticFrags.us
We would like to take this opportunity to give a brief history, description, and explain our relationships between ExoticReefs.us and ExoticFrags.us. Image

As you probably know, John (tubs) ran an incredible site consisting of a farming network known as ExoticReefs.us for several years. Hector (tacocat) and Jeremy (Who Dah?) were both farmers for John for a couple of years. John needed a break as many veteran aquarists do from time to time. (John has been in the hobby for over 15 years!) He began to talk about taking down his tanks. We were sad to hear about this turn of events, but understood. Then John shocked us by asking if we would take over his farming network that he had put so much time, energy, and effort into!

We were honored and after a brief pow-wow accepted John’s offer. And thus – ExoticFrags.us was born!

The destiny of the former site known as ExoticReefs.us is to become an Internet based retail venue. Information will become available to you as it becomes available to us! Most of John’s corals made it over to us in the interim.

And don’t worry – like a Tunze Wavebox against the side of a tank, we continue to nudge John to: get back in the hobby… get back in the hobby… get back in the hobby… Image

John continues with us as a partner in ExoticFrags.us as well.

Our Corals
A long time in the making, ExoticFrags.us has been open for business for a few months now. We wanted to create an artistic and exotic site to serve our ExoticFrags.us customers! Functionality and Usability experts can check their bags at the door, and we hope you enjoy the site’s and graphic artist’s unique appeal! Image Several of the pillar farmers have already begun sending in frags and it is very exciting! Purple Monster, Icefire Echinata, and Superman Digis & Danae’s from BenT; Miami Orchid, Acroberry, and Uknown Stags from gcarrol; Pink Lemonade, Candlelight Acro and Icefire Echinata from unarce; Superman Danae, Tyree (tubs) alien eye, Rasta Echino, and tubs Halloween Monti from tubs (oh yes, he still has corals with us! Image ).

Of course Who Dah? and tacocat have continued farming with corals such as Who Dah?’s Cat Eyes, Sour Apples, Pink Zippers, and Purple Death or tacocat’s Cyphastreas, and ORA Blue Polyped Acro.

And new farmers are bringing things to the table as well! Da6d2003 has contributed his famous Nuclear Green Palys, Candy Apple Reds, and Fire & Ice Zoanthids. thefishstore has brought in a few Aussie Acans for us as well!

Many other corals are presented by ExoticFrags.us for a slew of other farmers as well.

Our Future
As the farming network continues to grow with new farmers and former pillar farmers continue to resurface providing incredible corals, you can expect to see ExoticFrags.us‘ selection grow with no end in sight! We eagerly look forward to helping you establish your dream coral collection provided by top notch aquarists throughout the United States. Take a look around at the diversity of A+ and hard-to-get corals we have to offer by clicking here:
http://www.exoticfrags.us/corals.php

Enough Talk. As John would say – eye Candy Time!
Here are some beauties that we currently have available!

Pink Lemonade
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Yes – we have a single frag of Pink Lemonade available!!! Due to the extreme rarity of this coral and the limited offerings we have, this coral is being reserved for a multi-coral order. Would you like to be the one to own the most sought after SPS in the United States? Let us know!

Purple Death & Nuclear Green Palys
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We have both the Purple Death and Nuclear green pairs in stock now! These particular palys have had even SPS-only aquarists expanding their limited-species collections!

tubs Rasta, Tyree (tubs) Alien Eye, & tubs Branching Alien Eye Echinos
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Check out this group of Echinos we have available — all from tubs! The highly sought after Rasta Watermelon Echino, and the staple Echinos for any Echino collector: the Tyree (tubs) Alien Eye and tubs Branching Alien Eye!

Aussie Acans: Epicenter, Green Machine, and Aurora Eye
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Our treo of hot Aussie Acans bring fascinating colors to your tank!

tubs Blue Zoas, Cat Eyes, & Pink Zipper Zoanthids
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We have a huge selection of popular and aquarium raised Zoanthids in stock!

Icefire Echinata & Ponape Birdsnest
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Another one of the hottest SPS pieces right now is the Icefire Echinata — and we have two frags for two lucky aquarists! The Ponape Birdsnest frags are really mini-colonies. These guys are huge! Have a low-light spot in your tank? These would be perfect for it.

RBTA
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We even have a few captive bred Rose Bubble Tip Anemones in stock!

The ExoticFrags.us blog
We encourage you to swing by our blog which is available here:
http://www.exoticfrags.us/blog/
Although you are already on our email list, we did not add you to the email notification of the more frequently posted blog. We encourage you to check it out and subscribe to updates on the upper-right! We will update the blog more frequently then the email list for those that wish to get frequent and up-to-the-minute updates of our stock and availability.

Thanks!
Lastly, we would like to say a big THANK YOU! Without you, ExoticFrags.us would not be able to live out John’s unique farming network legacy. We hope to hear from you soon! Image

– Jeremy (Who Dah?) & Hector (tacocat)