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
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Ok that sure looks like the battlestag to me. Also looks similar to a piece I have the TSA Exquisita Stag.
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.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.
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.
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Here’s my Tyree Ultimate Blue stag.
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Are we talking about something different?
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 stoo teasing and show us a colony picSo 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%

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--
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