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.

JGT · 2026-09-22T15:11:39-0400

One of several…

exnisstech · 2026-09-22T16:06:44-0400

Nothing special but I've had it over 7 years. It was huge but died back to just a few heads but has been bouncing back slowly. It seems to be liking the flow and lighting in the SPS tank. I plucked a couple of heads off last night that were getting ready to drop and put them in a tray of rubble. The rock has its own is little eco system.

Found this old pic from after I fragged it when it was dying off. Pretty sure the one in the center down low is this one. The little one to the right didn't make it.

ScottJ · 2026-09-22T17:06:11-0400

Just got this one at an auction a couple weeks ago.

saltwaterfish.com · 2026-09-22T17:10:13-0400

exnisstech said:
Nothing special but I've had it over 7 years. It was huge but died back to just a few heads but has been bouncing back slowly. It seems to be liking the flow and lighting in the SPS tank. I plucked a couple of heads off last night that were getting ready to drop and put them in a tray of rubble. The rock has its own is little eco system.

Found this old pic from after I fragged it when it was dying off. Pretty sure the one in the center down low is this one. The little one to the right didn't make it.

It's definitely grown back nicely, you can even see a little baby hanging out next to it on the main rock.