Description

This coral is a Blastomussa Wellsi species that will encrust flat over the rock surface. Polyps tend to be around 1″-2″ in diameter. This coral is a one of a kind blasto unlike any I have seen. It has a blood orange base with deep purple patterns and bright green lips on the mouth. The purple will form different patterns from polyp to polyp. Some with striations, others with blotches or spots. Some will even be inverse with a purple base and the blood orange botches. Very similar to the Deadpool Blasto and for a second everyone wanted to call it a Deadpool blast. Online it looks very similar, but then one day I saw an actual Deadpool blasto colony from a major importer in Los Angeles, so I changed the name. Blastos are a great growing coral grown under 80-150 par with a little indirect feeding. This coral came from the ocean waters of Indonesia in 2011 and has been growing great for us. Doc places this coral low on the reef, or in a shaded area set inside the reef out of direct heavy flow, for many of our aquarium designs and installations.
Lighting: medium low – medium lighting 75-150 PAR.
Flow: low- medium low flow. Indirect good flow is best.
Care Level: Easy – intermediate
Original Location Range: Indonesia, Coral Triangle, South Pacific
Grown in our California coral farm where we provide zero impact corals
Water chemistry: Calcium 400-450, Magnesium 1350, KH 7-9.5, pH 8.1-8.4, Nitrates .01-10, Phosphates .01-.09 salinity 1.026
Temperature Range: 74- 81 Fahrenheit

Dosing: Doc highly recommends automated dosing of Ca, Kh and other elements to provide ultimate stable water chemistry throughout the day. It is important there are minimal fluctuations especially with Kh/alkalinity. For more information on dosing and products click here.
Placement recommendations: There are a few good areas to place these corals. Try an area like and edge in front so the coral can encrust onto the reef or a place with good indirect flow so particulate to be carried to it and settle on the coral. Keep a safe distance from other corals so it does not harm or get harmed by other corals. This coral is good to grow in vertical areas where others cannot. Another great location is on an island on the sand up close to the glass for optimal viewing. It will never grow outwards into the glass.

Attachment: Use disposable gloves, a small flathead sculpting tool, coral glue and coral clippers. In many of our custom aquarium builds we like to use coral glue. It is recommended to try and break off as much of the disk safe enough not to damage the skeletal branch or underside of the coral. We do this by using coral bone cutters. Add a good amount of coral glue to the underside of the coral. Prime the reef area you wish to place the coral by smearing the glue onto the rock.  Press the coral disk onto the desired location. It does help to slightly twist, tilt back and forth the coral to help cure the glue. Press it down firmly and use your favorite sculpting tool to clean up the excess glue. Be sure the coral is fully secure, the coral should never fall off the reef. Most frags will grow quite large so be a little generous with the glue to withstand the weight of the future coral colony growth. We find it helps using only the extra thick reef glue gel. Be sure to rub a little reef glue onto the reef section and there is enough reef glue on the coral plug to set it securely.

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