Blue Raven Blastomussa

Blue Raven Blasto fully aqua-cultured. We are a full service saltwater aquarium shop in Key West with a strong focus on aqua-culture (FL Certificate #AQ0254072). I take my time with all of my corals. You will not find any coral in the shop that is bought and resold immediately. Everything goes through a vigorous dipping process and stays for at least 3 months before it is resold. You have my personal guarantee that your coral will be healthy and ready to grow in your tank. Thank you for supporting our small business in Key West. We offer quality unlike the most of the larger Coral farms in the US.

This coral is suitable for salt water tanks and is very easy to grow! The photos are taken with no filter using a Sony A 7 IV with a Sigma Macro Lens. The video file is shot under blue spectrum. You will receive a frag with 5-8 polyps.

Corals can detach from the plug during shipping, this is normal as they get bounced around during shipping.

Corals should be acclimated to temp and then placed in quarantine. We do our absolute best to avoid any pests, we still suggest you dip all corals after they have been placed in a quarantine tank for a few days.

Our LPS tank runs at around 50-100 par, we suggest you place the coral in slightly lower lighting and then move up over the course of a week. This works for us and it will also work for you.

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Care Guide
Blastomussa is a hardy, popular LPS with round, fleshy polyps that cluster together in a honeycomb-like pattern. It thrives under low to moderate lighting and gentle, indirect flow, and its coloration intensifies with regular feeding of meaty foods.

Placement: Lower rockwork or sandbed, shaded from direct light and flow.

CARE INFORMATION

Lighting	Low–Medium — PAR 50–150
Flow	Low–Moderate
Feeding	High — meaty foods 2–3× weekly
Placement	Sandbed or lower rockwork
Care level	Beginner–Intermediate
Water parameters	Salinity 1.025–1.026 · Temp 76–78°F · Alk 8–9 dKH · Ca 420–440 · Mg 1300–1400

What to expect when it arrives

Acans arrive deflated with the skeleton visible between polyps, which looks worse than it is. Float the sealed bag 15 minutes, drip acclimate 30 to 45 minutes, and place the frag low in the tank with gentle flow. Most acans begin inflating within 24 hours and are fully puffed within two to three days.

Placement, and the light mistake

Acans burn under SPS lighting. Start low — sand bed or the bottom third of the rockwork — and leave it there. A deflated acan sitting under strong light is not going to adapt; it is going to recede. Flow should be gentle and indirect enough that the fleshy polyps are not visibly pushed around.

Feeding, which is the whole point

This is where acans reward you. Target feed with a small meaty food two or three times a week, pumps off for ten minutes, placing food directly on the polyps. A fed acan produces new heads at the frag edge within weeks. An unfed one can sit unchanged for a year and many keepers conclude the coral is slow when it is simply hungry.

Growth and fragging

A three-head frag that is placed correctly and fed regularly commonly becomes eight to ten heads within a year. New heads emerge at the margin and mature over a few months. Frag by cutting between heads with a band saw or bone cutters once the colony has spread past its plug.

Compatibility

Acans have short sweepers and lose most exchanges. Keep them clear of Euphyllia and chalices. They are also a favorite target for some angels and butterflies, and a colony that stays deflated in otherwise good conditions is usually being picked at after lights out.