{"id":54263,"date":"2025-01-28T23:41:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/aquarium\/coral-focus-collects-the-creme-da-la-creme-of-lobophyllia-robusta-reef-builders\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T23:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:41:53","slug":"coral-focus-collects-the-creme-da-la-creme-of-lobophyllia-robusta-reef-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=54263","title":{"rendered":"Coral Focus Collects The Creme Da La Creme Of Lobophyllia robusta | Reef Builders"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Coral Focus ran by Alice Whitehead and Joel Feeney recently collected hands down the nicest \u201cSymphyllia\u201d (likely Lobophyllia robusta)<\/a> I have ever seen. I spoke with Alice about the pieces collection she stated the following.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJoel Feeney from Coral Focus collected it. He found it on the front edge of the outer reefs, straight out from Mackay. It was in approximately 15m of water on a sloping edge. He literally saw a Manta Ray straight before finding it and then locked eyes on that masterpiece! = good dive\u201d.<\/p>\n

What a good dive indeed. It\u2019s not often you find \u201cSymphyllia\u201d that stand out from the crowd let alone a piece like this that defines the quality of an entire species.<\/p>\n

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An image of a \u201cSymphyllia\u201d in the wild.<\/p>\n

Typically most \u201cSymphyllia\u201d from Australia are green or red with the \u201crainbows\/ultras\u201d being a red\/orange with two or three accent colors. Compared to the usual specimens this one takes the cake by a long shot. Red, orange, pink, blue, green, yellow, purple, cyan etc etc etc \u2013 the colors keep coming and they all bleed together like an expressionist painting on the oral disk.<\/p>\n

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The quality of piece that\u2019s representative of many ultra\u2019s coming out of Australia \u2013 beautiful and full of color but still not a \u201crainbow\u201d in the same light as the specimen highlighted in this article.<\/p>\n

I look forward to seeing what other specimens Coral Focus finds in the coming years. As of now we have a new CADE coming to the Reef Builders studio which we plan to restart Jake\u2019s aussie wall tank<\/a> in. Hopefully a robusta of this quality is in the studio\u2019s future. All images in this article were taken and provided by Alice Whitehead.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to keep up or see Coral Focus\u2019s inventory follow them here. <\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s some more eye candy.<\/p>\n

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