Blue Digitata
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JustDavidP
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My ORA German Blue was purchased at TI at least two years ago. I'm not really sure. It was a big and beautiful colony before my clam crash killed all my montipora. I wrote it off as a loss. Unbelievably, the "base" began to encrust again, and has now grown fingerlets!! Here's a somewhat decent picture. The color is not truly represented here. I don't have time to photoshop it to resemble what the eye sees. It is deeper in color, and without a flash, you can not see the skeleton but just the polyps. The base measures at least a half a foot across.
Dave
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JustDavidP
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Armando... It was sold to me at TI as a German Blue ORA Montipora Digitata. In the TI tank, it was, in fact, powder blue. After a month or so in my sytem, it turned purple.
Looks an aweful lot like the blues sold on all the retail sites and pictured on other forums:
http://www.saltvannsforum.no/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=7522
http://www.frags.org/memberfragdetails.php?fid=1963
http://www.dustindorton.com/work/3-19-04/images/P1010432_jpg.jpg
I think B was working there when I bought it. He saw it and agreed it was the ORA German Blue. Dunno...it's nice when offset by the green bali next to it.
Dave
Looks an aweful lot like the blues sold on all the retail sites and pictured on other forums:
http://www.saltvannsforum.no/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=7522
http://www.frags.org/memberfragdetails.php?fid=1963
http://www.dustindorton.com/work/3-19-04/images/P1010432_jpg.jpg
I think B was working there when I bought it. He saw it and agreed it was the ORA German Blue. Dunno...it's nice when offset by the green bali next to it.
Dave
JustDavidP
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Actually...it's quite funny. All of the "purple montipora digitata" that I see are actually purple skeltal, and duller, sometimes rusty polyps. I wish EVERYONE agreed that it was the purple and not blue. I've seen purple monti going for BIG BUCKS online. 
JustDavidP
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This is what I always see sold as "purple" digi"
http://www.got-chow.com/pics/aquaria/digitata_080202.jpg
http://www.got-chow.com/pics/aquaria/digitata_080202.jpg
Chuck Spyropulos
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When I got mine at Skipton's it was a pale blue...almost white. Now after a few months most of it has turned brown. The tips are light blue with purple polyps, but the rest is brown on brown..... a little dissapointing
JustDavidP
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He he he... see that? I lost that picture and forgot about that post. Thanks, I snagged my picture back!!
That frag was no more than two inches in August 03. So it has been less than two years and it is now a massive encrusted coral. I just hope that it begins to get more lateral growth soon. When I do, if any of you want some PURPLE monti, sold as ORA German Blue, you're welcome to it.
As a matter of fact, some of it was at the last auction.
Dave
That frag was no more than two inches in August 03. So it has been less than two years and it is now a massive encrusted coral. I just hope that it begins to get more lateral growth soon. When I do, if any of you want some PURPLE monti, sold as ORA German Blue, you're welcome to it.
As a matter of fact, some of it was at the last auction.
Dave
NateHanson
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JustDavidP said:
I agree dave, that yours is the ORA blue-polyp digi (assuming that's the colony that the frag you gave me came from). FWIW, in my tank it's turned back to the powder blue polyps all over, not the purple it was when I got it from you last month.
The growth form doesn't quite look like the last ORA colony I had, but that might just be a matter of maturity.
JustDavidP
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Nate,
It may have more to do with the fact that the entire colony pretty much "died off" in the clam crash. It re-encrusted over the original branches. This caused some cool and different growth. Some were clubbed at the end, others had folds in them, etc. all due to the new growth over the original skeleton.
Dave
It may have more to do with the fact that the entire colony pretty much "died off" in the clam crash. It re-encrusted over the original branches. This caused some cool and different growth. Some were clubbed at the end, others had folds in them, etc. all due to the new growth over the original skeleton.
Dave
