Coral of the Week: Blastomussa (Blasto)

[revhtree]

The Coral of the Week is the Blastomussa coral or commonly referred to as Blasto. Please share your blasto pictures and experience!


Care Level: Moderate
Temperament: Peaceful
Lighting: Moderate
Waterflow: Low
Placement: Bottom
Water Conditions: 72-78° F, dKH 8-12, pH 8.1-8.4, sg 1.023-1.025
Supplements: Calcium, Strontium, Trace Elements

image courtesy of Sexy Corals

 

[Braves Fan]

Picture does them no justice, they really light up under the blue lights.

 

[Reloadeddevil]

Here is mine before my tank crashed.

Closeup

 

[hlem]

one of the easier coral to have and keep.

 

[orlando809]

 

[ChoxRox]

one of the easier coral to have and keep.

What kind of blasto is this? (excuse the nooby question)

 

[seafansar]

WHY did you have to post those blastos from sexy corals?! Why?!!!! I want those soooo bad! I'll have to try and take good pics of my blastos. I have solid red, huge red with green centers, red with purple/blue centers, and my favorite orange with purple centers! Love blastos!

 

[revsgirl]

Beautiful!! Lovin' the pics!

 

[Dixie_reefer]

Here's my new blastos!

 

[Reloadeddevil]

Here is another one of mine truly amazing Iron man blasto, unfortunately i lost everything in tank crash

 

[Braves Fan]

Rev If you ever frag those, I want on the list :0 Very nice.

 

[mainereefer]

just regular blood red

 

[Paranoidobseshun]

Here we go. I wouldnt call them easy by any means lol.

And that is only a fraction of the ones I had.

 

[Cbenner]

Here is mine 4 months ago

And again today

 

[seafansar]

My babies! orange with purple centers

red with purple/blue center and red with green centers

Huge red with green centers. Usually the green shows more, but I was moving around corals today and accidently bumped this one.

Regular reds. My first blastos!

 

[jonbar1]

One of my favorite LPS for sure! Pretty easy to keep, mine prefer lower flow with medium light and feeding at least twice a week.

The only uncommon one I have is PPE.

 

[Wesley42079]

Good job fellow reefers in sharing your blastos.

I've tried twice to keep blastos in my new 40 Breeder, but I can keep them alive. After 1 week they tend to slowly receede and die. The aquarium is only 2.5 months old, so maybe I'll wait a little longer as the tank matures.

 

[3Twinklets]

Wow! These photos are really beautiful

 

[Surfage_Breakage]

This is my favorite blasto that I've got. Im not sure of what kind it is but the colors are very bright and unusual color pattern, at least I havent seen another one with the purple and red stripes in the middle with the green mouth.

I just picked up this PPE blasto from twinspots_goby earlier this week, Frank gave me an absolute steal on the blasto, there was no way I could pass it up. They are doing great and have 20+ heads.

 

[caudill187]

These are my favorites. Great shots everyone