Tyree Ultimate Stag vs Battlestag

[SneakyTortuga]

Ok that sure looks like the battlestag to me. Also looks similar to a piece I have the TSA Exquisita Stag.

Now I do believe TSA exquisita stag and the battle stag are the same. They both look identical after seeing it at TSA in person

 

[jda]

He was good, and still is good (in a much more clownish and limited capacity) at taking the credit... for sure. :)

 

[jda]

Here is my experience with the Greg Carroll Ultimate Stag... years ago under 10k and 14k lighting, it was baby blue center with darker blue corallines and only green on the very tips. The top of mine is in about 550-600 PAR right under a 14k Phoenix. With the many that I have given away or sold, they get a lot more green under lower intensity lighting and look almost identical to the Battlestag.

If it is very similar, or the same, then I can use this space for a something else. Thanks for all of the replies.

 

[gcarroll]

Here is my experience with the Greg Carroll Ultimate Stag... years ago under 10k and 14k lighting, it was baby blue center with darker blue corallines and only green on the very tips. The top of mine is in about 550-600 PAR right under a 14k Phoenix. With the many that I have given away or sold, they get a lot more green under lower intensity lighting and look almost identical to the Battlestag.

If it is very similar, or the same, then I can use this space for a something else. Thanks for all of the replies.

14K Phoenix was my bulb of choice back then. That and 250w radium. I was running 2 Radiums and 3 Phoenix altenating on a tank that was only 6' long. The colony was sitting in between them. I was getting similar PAR numbers (maybe even a tad but higher) as you have reported and also hit it with heavy flow as it was near the center section of the tank.

 

[spsick]

Greg, have any sweet colony pics for us? Prob my all-time favorite acro. Had it years ago before I got out of the hobby for a while and happy to have just recently reacquired.

 

[Big E]

Here is an early shot of my Tyree/ GC Ultimate blue .................I could only get the green coralites and rings where it was getting high light.

 

[spsick]

Here is an early shot of my Tyree/ GC Ultimate blue .................I could only get the green coralites and rings where it was getting high light.

Looking good Ed! Got any recent shots of it? This thing is such a beauty and all I ever see is pictures of frags. Hoping to let this thing grow into the centerpiece of my tank.

 

[Big E]

The coral got too big and I completely cut it down and am now growing a new one from a piece I kept. It's only 3" with one main branch.

I went through my old pics and the only shots of the colony are far away and non descript

 

[buddie]

Did anyone ever grow out these two to compare them in the same tank .

 

[Big E]

Here are some other archive pics I've kept...........the light blue on the tyree always seems to be throughout the branch more and with more spaced out coralites. Every time I see vendor pics the growth areas are more compact and less blue of the other versions like the battlestag.

 

[AviL]

Hey, this is my TSA exquisita. Looks like the same

 

[spsick]

My @gcarroll is nicely turning into a centerpiece in my tank with color so bright I can’t capture it well straight on or from the top. Getting nice bright baby blue base and green tips at ~250mmol under t5. You can see it in the background here.

@Battlecorals cam you hit us with a colony pic of the Battlestag for science??

 

[Reefahholic]

Here’s my Tyree Ultimate Blue stag.

Are we talking about something different?

This was the only coral in my tank that I didn’t have an ID for. If it’s not this…it is extremely close! Let me see if I have a pic.


Horrible pic, but when I have the lights at 20K it looks identical to yours.

 

[Ironfish]

I just found this old thread about these similar looking stags.
I got these three pieces from different vendors and at different times and as time passes by they look more alike.

Tyree Ultimate Stag : I had it in my old tank so it's been with me for years. Got it from JF.

BC Battle Stag: got it last year I believe from POTO.

TSA Exquisita Stag: got it directly from TSA last month.

I'll place this last one next to the others and will see what happens. If they end up growing the same or with differences.

 

[Battlecorals Verified Sponsor]

I just found this old thread about these similar looking stags.
I got these three pieces from different vendors and at different times and as time passes by they look more alike.

Tyree Ultimate Stag : I had it in my old tank so it's been with me for years. Got it from JF.

BC Battle Stag: got it last year I believe from POTO.

TSA Exquisita Stag: got it directly from TSA last month.

I'll place this last one next to the others and will see what happens. If they end up growing the same or with differences.

So admittedly, I haven't read the whole thread and I may have already suggested this at some point between now and 2017 or whenever it started but this was a super common stag in the early 2000s.

Probably came in just about every Indo shipment anyone ever got, and I'm sure Tyree had it. I know that mine came from Menard at Reef dwellers. Probably around 2006 maybe 2005. And he had had it for a while before then. But the probability that they're all the same is about 99.99999%

 

[Big E]

The only thing I can say for sure is any branch that is getting full light should have that baby blue skin..........that's why I'm not sure they are all the same.

I bought about mine about 15 years ago before those other names existed.

From Tyree's Reef Farmer site--

 

[spsick]

So admittedly, I haven't read the whole thread and I may have already suggested this at some point between now and 2017 or whenever it started but this was a super common stag in the early 2000s.

Probably came in just about every Indo shipment anyone ever got, and I'm sure Tyree had it. I know that mine came from Menard at Reef dwellers. Probably around 2006 maybe 2005. And he had had it for a while before then. But the probability that they're all the same is about 99.99999%

@Battlecorals stoo teasing and show us a colony pic

 

[spsick]

The only thing I can say for sure is any branch that is getting full light should have that baby blue skin..........that's why I'm not sure they are all the same.

I bought about mine about 15 years ago before those other names existed.

From Tyree's Reef Farmer site--

My thought is we see the green more and the baby blue less these days with lighting shifting to blue led and less intensity.

Here is my colony I just sold as it outgrew my tank (I kept a baby to restart)