第一届ReefStock澳大利亚展览将在悉尼举行，距离展览开幕剩下不到两个月，我们决定前往澳大利亚的三个城市——悉尼、墨尔本和布里斯班，去参观最优秀的珊瑚礁和水族商店。
这段旅程我们共乘坐了7个航班，飞行2万多英里，花费了10天的时间，参观了近20家水族的商店。在与ReefStock澳大利亚展览的半数供应商和赞助商会面后，我们可以自信地说，澳大利亚的珊瑚商已经为此次展览做好了充分的准备，他们将首次为我们展示美丽多彩的珊瑚礁和珊瑚断枝。此次展览，我们将有机会大饱眼福。
虽然澳大利亚只允许国内的珊瑚贸易，不允许从从国外进口，但澳大利亚的海岸线延绵数千英里，有着各种各样的珊瑚，这足以让澳大利亚的珊瑚商充分利用了。SPS珊瑚缸能充分体现这一点，每家水族商店都有各种各样的独特珊瑚缸。
我们此行的目的是收集一些让我们惊喜的优秀珊瑚和展示品，并为国际和当地参观者预告ReefStock澳大利亚展览会的精彩内容。
澳大利亚LFS的珊瑚礁展示缸包罗万象，与上图Reef, River & Reptile的水族箱一样有着非常有趣独特的蘑菇珊瑚，又与下图Reeflections Australia的水族箱一样充满了小型SPS珊瑚。如果您想看看我们在Nature Aquariums改造的珊瑚缸，参考一下如果水族商店里只有同一类珊瑚的不同品种该怎样处理，那么请翻阅到我们先前发布的文章吧！
我们在墨尔本参观了一家淡水鱼专营店——Subscape。这家水族店拥有数量惊人的水草缸，其中一个是我们见过最大的水草缸，尺寸大约为10 x 3 x4 英尺（约3 x 0.9 x 1.2米）！
让我们有兴趣参观澳大利亚LFS的原因是，他们总是有着许多更大的珊瑚可供销售和展出。“西部珊瑚商”可能会更倾向于乐趣，但澳大利亚珊瑚商是以如何照顾它们为出发点，而他们供应的珊瑚在质量和多样性方面都非常引人注目！
ReefStock 澳大利亚展览会上将展出多种多样的纽扣珊瑚，恕我无法一一列举，请您亲自参观Gallery Aquatica了解更多。在过去一年，这家珊瑚和断枝专卖店新增了丰富多样的纽扣珊瑚，包括许多令美国珊瑚商都羡慕的新品种。Gallery Aquatica将许多纽扣珊瑚聚集成花束，他们将在Alternative Reef磁性断枝架上展示这些花束。
虽然我们通常认为印度尼西亚是极好的脑珊瑚的产地，但Fish World Aquarium这家水族商店有一个令人惊叹的“彩绘”脑珊瑚，非常绚丽。这个标本来自Salty Pets，他们已经从南部暗礁中获得了一些优质的脑珊瑚，还有一些多彩的LPS珊瑚，例如下图的UFO脑珊瑚。
在澳大利亚还有一种极具代表性的奇特LPS珊瑚是我们的“旧爱”——Turbinaria heronensis珊瑚。“英雄杯”珊瑚是Turbinaria珊瑚属中最奇怪的物种之一，有些珊瑚群看起来更像是微型Duncan珊瑚，而不是镀层的叶状盘珊瑚。我们在此次旅程中发现了两个独特的珊瑚群，一个是在Gallery Aquatica见到的大多数是分支的蓝色标本和一个是绿色并且形状奇特的标本。
澳大利亚最著名的珊瑚就是花盆珊瑚。在澳大利亚，我们见过了许多美丽的Goniopora珊瑚群，例如明亮的红色Bernadpora sutchburyi珊瑚和精美的蓝色G. tenuidens珊瑚，两者都是在墨尔本的Fish World Aquariums看到的。
到目前为止，虽然我们在美国和欧洲都有不少优质的澳大利亚珊瑚供应，但还有很多品种尚未被发现和欣赏。
澳大利亚ReefStock展览会的观众将成为第一批亲眼观赏繁多的澳大利亚珊瑚种类的幸运儿。本届展览会将是非常有趣并且令人兴奋的珊瑚展览活动，期待见到你们！可在Facebook上的活动页面查看详情，预售门票现已发售。
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Highlights of the ReefStock Australia LFS Tour
If you’ve been wondering why it’s been unusually quiet on the blog, it’s for a very good reason. With the first ReefStock Australia coming up in just under two months in Sydney, we decided to do a tour of most of Australia’s best reef and aquarium stores across three cities.
It only took seven flights, over 20,000 miles and ten days to visit a nearly 20 aquarium shops in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. But after meeting with more than half of our vendors and sponsors at ReefStock Australia we can confidently say that Aussie reefers are more than ready for their first reef & frag focused reef aquarium event, and we got to see a lot of cool animals and displays while doing so.
Although Australian reefers only have access to domestic corals, the thousands of miles of coastline are home to a huge diversity of corals and Aussie reefers really make the most of it. The SPS coral tanks are very well represented and each store has unique reef aquarium displays of all kinds.
Rather than go over each one individually we thought we’d just collect the best of the corals and displays that caught our attention, and give both international and local visitors a preview of what they can expect to find and see at the first ReefStock Australia.
The reef aquarium displays of Aussie LFS spans from the very cool specialized corallimorph tanks like the one above from Reef, River & Reptile to the full on small polyped SPS corals like the one below from Reeflections Australia. You’ll definitely want to check out the reef we made over at Nature Aquariums for a look at what’s possible when a store ha multiples of the same coral colonies in stock.
One inspiring detour we made while in Melbourne was a visit to Subscape, a freshwater aquascaping specialty store that had a ridiculous amount of incredible planted tanks. One of these was among the largest planted tanks we’ve ever seen with dimensions approaching roughly ten feet, by three feet tall and four feet wide!
One thing that always tickles our fancy about visiting Australian LFS is seeing just how many more and bigger RIcordea yuma they always have both on sale and on display. ‘Western Reefers’ may have access to more yuma rics in general, but Aussie reefers really know how to take care of them, and the quality and diversity of their Ricordea supply is really something to take notice of!
If i had any reservations about what kind of zoanthids we might expect to see at ReefStock Australia, those evaporated right away by visiting Gallery Aquatica. Over the last year this coral and fragging specialty store really boosted their catalog of zoanthids and it includes many novel strains that even American reefers would be envious of. Not to mention Gallery Aquatica has many of these zoanthids clustered into bouquets that they will be offering on Alternative Reef magnetic frag racks.
While we usually tend to think of Indonesia as the source for sensational Trachyphyllia specimens, one store Fish World Aquarium had an incredible ‘painted’ Trachy that was as puffy as one could hope to expect. This specimen came from Salty Pets who has been clutch obtaining some insane quality Trachies from the southern barrier reef, as well as some extremely colorful LPS like the UFO Bowerbanki pictured below.
Another exotic LPS coral which is well represented in Australia is our old favorite, Turbinaria heronensis. The ‘Hero Cup’ coral is one of the oddest species of Turbinaria with some colonies looking a lot more like a miniature Duncan coral than a plating, foliose cup coral. We spotted two exceptinal colonies on the tour, a mostly branching blueish specimen at Gallery Aquatica and a more normal green colored and shaped colony.
Finally if there’s one group of corals that Australians are ‘best at’ it’s got to be the flowerpot corals. With access to so much abundance and variety, Australian reefers have some of the best Goniopora colonies we’ve ever seen, ranging from bright red Bernadpora sutchburyi to exquisite blue G. tenuidens, both of which were spotted at Fish World Aquariums in melbourne.
By now it should be clear that although we’ve got a pretty good supply of Australian corals in America and Europe, there’s still a whole lotta of diversity yet to be discovered and appreciated from the land down under.
Prospective attendees to ReefStock Australia will be the first to witness the variety of Australian corals in the fun and exciting setting of a good ole American style coral event, and we can’t wait to see you all there. Be sure to RSVP to the event page on facebook and if you know you’re planning to go, don’t forget that presale tickets are now on sale.
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