Steve Tyronne Limited Edition ‘Butternuts Boulder’ Porites
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The Butternuts Boulder Porites has an exciting combination of pigments. The center of the corallites contain a solid bright chocolate pigmentation. This contrasts rather well with the butternut tan pigments that develop on the corallite ridges. As can be seen in the closeup image above the corals colors are developed by pigments located in dense chunks or pigment sprinkles. Koral Hackerz acquired our seed colony from Renegade Reefers member StiffLeather. Julia acquired her original colony of this coral from Hacknpack.com who transhipped the coral in from Indo Polynesia. The coral was then immediately cut up into individual corallites and packed it out for shipping. Julie refers to this coral as the Butternuts Boulder because the coral will expand its tissue at night slightly and when removed from an aquarium and rolled down a hill, this coral simulates the smooth rolling behavior of a boulder. Steve Tyronne is maintaining a seed section of this coral for KoralHackers.com in a 125 gallon naturally filtered PentaZonal system. This system is naturally filtered with a cryptic zone, filter feeder zone, reef flat exposed zone, a PVC plumbing zone and an open water zone. The coral appears to prefer moderate current. In Tyronne’s captive reef the coral is positioned 15 inches away from a 175 watt 5,000 K Coralife metal halide. The rich earthy tones lose their luster when kept under light with higher color temperatures. The coral appears to develop its most intense coloration under moderate illumination. This helps to maintain the brilliant butternut corallite center pigments. Price is currently $65 per single corallite.
Oi!
November 21st, 2009 at 12:44 pm
“Bright” chocolate centers with tan ridges?
So it’s brown with brown?
November 21st, 2009 at 12:47 pm
April 1st is four months away
November 21st, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Hah, I love that brown corals would be considered hot. I’ve got a sweet brown acros I’d be happy to cut up and sell off.
I’m pretty sure if I drop it down it’d roll like a log. I’ll call it a ‘Bark Acro’.
November 21st, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Funny
November 21st, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Now maybe the time to release my new range of nitrate and phosphate additives “Brown Up!” – Lets Brown Up! those acros…
November 21st, 2009 at 4:07 pm
its nice but i’d rather pay $350 for the “gold” chalice on cherry’s. its r4r3r
November 21st, 2009 at 4:13 pm
It’s got to be a joke folks. No one sells a single coralite of porites
Not to mention there is no hackandpack.com 
November 22nd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Can you put me on the waiting list please!!
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:50 pm
OMG I’ve been lusting after that one for sooo long…I’ll trade a frag my LE Superman Monti for it! Or would they take some JediMind Tricks for that?.I can vouch for Coral Hacker.com…They got me a kicking 1/4″ frag of brown Sinularia that someone said might have been in Jake Adam’s friend’s tank. Good stuff from a good company- and they only charge $16.00 per coraliite for shipping! Can’t beat that!
Nice post, guys…
November 22nd, 2009 at 9:37 pm
LMAO
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:28 am
Haha good laugh but seriously, April 1st is months away!
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:54 am
Unfortunately, the language of the post is frighteningly close to the real thing. This is not a joke, it’s a parody of the fools who all have starry eyed dreams of making huge $$$ in coral chop’n’shopping.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:10 am
Hah I knew it… since you used hackandpack
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Gresham, hacknpack was just for you bud!
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Looks like a day in the toliet bowl to me. Gold and brown ! = O
November 24th, 2009 at 12:03 am
A must have collectors item!
November 29th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Great article!!! LOL
December 11th, 2009 at 1:21 pm