Show off those Blastos!

saltwaterfish.com · 2026-09-22T10:39:11-0400

Post a picture of your favorite blastomussa that you have! I feel they do not see enough love in the hobby. Here are my 2 personal favorites.

cdemoss01 · 2026-09-22T12:00:37-0400

Bumping this thread.
Show off some blastos!

kevgib67 · 2026-09-22T13:53:38-0400

saltwaterfish.com · 2026-09-22T13:57:49-0400

kevgib67 said:

The one blue/orange in the middle looks killer, do you happen to have a closer photo of it?

Biokabe · 2026-09-22T14:22:00-0400

I only have one blasto colony so far, I always forget to take an up-close picture of it. This is probably my best recent picture of it:

I need to get some more, they always seem to do well in my tank and for whatever reason my LFS usually doesn't charge much for them. About 2/3 of the skeleton on mine was bare and un-polyped when I picked this one up, and it only had about 4-5 polyps. Basically the entire back line of polyps is new growth from when I picked it up.

They also seem to be less tasty than acans, I've never seen anything even try to munch of them.

xiaoxiy · 2026-09-22T14:34:01-0400

Here are my four blastos. The last two grow so slooowly…

saltwaterfish.com · 2026-09-22T14:45:13-0400

xiaoxiy said:
Here are my four blastos. The last two grow so slooowly…

They definitely look happy though, nice pics!

Biokabe · 2026-09-22T14:47:51-0400

Blastos really are nice, probably my fourth favorite type of coral (acro, euphyllia, acan are the other three). It's kind of crazy the price fluctuation on them though - at my LFS they're almost always dirt-cheap, online they seem to go for hundreds for a few polyps. That's probably the reason I don't have more - my LFS doesn't stock too many of them, and they're stupid spendy online.