Nicest Staghorn, go!

[FL_Reefer]

I'm looking to add a nice Staghorn to my tank. I have the perfect place for 1. Mostly because of the growth pattern of this coral. So I want to find the nicest, baddest most dope stag out there. What is everyones most favorite Staghorn? Pics are always good too
Thanks!

 

[revhtree]

Follwoing!

 

[favites]

copps azure stag comes to mind--from his pics looks amazing, don't know if others have duplicated his success and coloring it up and growing it out. Unfortunately lost mine with a tank move...

 

[Surf&turf]

H@rry's rainbow stag is sweet.

 

[Surf&turf]

 

[FL_Reefer]

Both of those are a good option, thank you for chiming in!

 

[FL_Reefer]

H@rry's rainbow stag is sweet.

I really like that one

 

[FL_Reefer]

Bump for some stag love!

 

[FL_Reefer]

I know there's more out there, come on my peoples. Had an opertunity to buy a nice blue stag today but just can't settle yet. It was a battle stag, anyone ever heard of this one?

 

[FishLipz]

My favorites would be the Ultimate stag, PC Rainbow, Poletta pink tip, and Lime in the sky.

The Battlestag is from Battlecorals and looks very similar to the Ultimate stag.

 

[FL_Reefer]

Thanks, I'm going to have to look those up, I've seen the line in the sky and tat one is nice. The battle stag was nice and a good size little colony and I was going to get it but I found a bad butt scoly and got that instead.

 

[favites]

Hey Fl Reefer-- your question, the fact that there have been few responses, and 2 cups of coffee this am really got me thinking about your query...I have most of the stags mentioned above and they are all nice ones! I also have some other silly priced 'frags' that I hope one day will become 'stags', but I guess as I rethink what qualities I enjoy most about the stags I like the most currently is their hardiness, growth rate, and overall 'presence' as the specimen in a tank. Often when I look at my favorite TOTM, the 'centerpiece' corals are often 'average' corals that have grown into impressive specimens...So that being said I love my Steve Elias blue stag which is a medium branch stag with white growth tips, I love the blue color and even more within a year I had an impressive colony which turned my 'frag' tank into an actual reef. The other that I do not know the exact species but I would roughly classify as a stag is my champagne acro otherwise known as Copps Calacali acropora. The color scheme is rather bland you might think with tan overall and purple tips, but it serves as a neat backdrop for the other corals that sit in front of it, and the structure is really unusual, more organized than a typical stag, almost 'oak tree' like..Also a rapid grower...will make you feel like a bonafide sps expert! Both are super affordable as well!

Here is a an average photo of the two colonies, there are many others on here that have better photo skills and bigger colonies!

Mark

 

[Robthorn]

Green slimmer, purple slimmer, cali tort, oregon tort , all the ones already mentioned and some really cool dark purple thing I have woth neon green coralite tips. I can't wait until that last one grows a few more inches. Pretty impossible placement to get a photo of. One drawback of deep tanks.

 

[FL_Reefer]

Thanks for the info Mark! We are on the same page brotha. I have a spot in my cube that needs a stag. I need that oak tree like coral to fill the front of my aquarium. The grouth pattern of a Staghorn is perfect for this spot. The kicker is that there is only room for one. thanks again bud and those are some nice colonies you have there too!

 

[FL_Reefer]

Green slimmer, purple slimmer, cali tort, oregon tort , all the ones already mentioned and some really cool dark purple thing I have woth neon green coralite tips. I can't wait until that last one grows a few more inches. Pretty impossible placement to get a photo of. One drawback of deep tanks.

The Cali tort is one sweet coral. Great color! I've never seen a purple slimmer, gonna have to look that one up. Thanks for your input!

 

[Eckolancer]

Here's mine

 

[Eckolancer]

Green one as well

 

[jolt]

Thanks for starting this thread! I have been thinking about using a couple of big stags in the back of my upcoming build, as a backdrop like others mentioned. I've seen green and blue so far in this thread. Are there any red ones that get a tall majestic growth pattern?

 

[FL_Reefer]

Eckolancer, those are awesome! Thanks for sharing. Is the blue a Cali?

 

[Eckolancer]

I bought the original frag about 15+ years ago. Back then it was just called purple sps. Same for the slimmer. Both were from Bali during a trip there. I have a few others from there as well. These colonies I sell at this size about once a year just to watch them grow again.