Lets see pics of the rarest coral you have ever had living in your tank.

[hollback]

How about my Cycloseris that looks like Lincoln!

 

[CHALICEKEEPER]

Nice stuff keep them coming :tongue:

 

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[cee]

Acropora rambleri, RIP

 

[Tajjo]

This seems like a fun thread let's get it going again! I'll contribute my new wells tomorrow.

 

[drainbamage]

not super rare in some senses, rare in others- My "JF My Miami" that R2R and World Wide Coral hooked me up with!

 

[Reef Goddess]

Well I have 5 aquariums, so these are what I consider to be my rarest corals out of the tons of corals I have. :bigsmile:



Incredible Hulk leather I have never gotten another leather with a bright green body AND green tentacles. It grows fast and is soft like an anemone.

Gold Stripe clove polyps

Purple polyp cap I'm sure I'm not the only one with this coral, but I haven't seen anyone else with it.

Radioactive mystery monti This was supposed to be green cap, but it grows super slow and has thin nodules.

Sunshine monti Rare color and growth formation.

Blue/green anthelia my rarest anthelia/clove

Green with yellow tip torch I just traded for this and I've never seen one before, really sweet.

Last my RIP rare coral. Some type of rare confusa, it was amazing, but it just continued to recede in my tank and I could not save it. :sad:

 

[SDguy]

Those really are some unique and amazing pieces!!

Well I have 5 aquariums, so these are what I consider to be my rarest corals out of the tons of corals I have. :bigsmile:



Incredible Hulk leather I have never gotten another leather with a bright green body AND green tentacles. It grows fast and is soft like an anemone.

Gold Stripe clove polyps

Purple polyp cap I'm sure I'm not the only one with this coral, but I haven't seen anyone else with it.

Radioactive mystery monti This was supposed to be green cap, but it grows super slow and has thin nodules.

Sunshine monti Rare color and growth formation.

Blue/green anthelia my rarest anthelia/clove

Green with yellow tip torch I just traded for this and I've never seen one before, really sweet.

Last my RIP rare coral. Some type of rare confusa, it was amazing, but it just continued to recede in my tank and I could not save it. :sad:

 

[wicked demon]

Unknown CARIBEAN LPS hitch-hiker, came in on shipped florida live rock as a brown slime patch, this is about 6 years growth;

 

[Sikryd]

Unknown CARIBEAN LPS hitch-hiker, came in on shipped florida live rock as a brown slime patch, this is about 6 years growth;

That was one of my first corals. I LOVED that thing. Actually pretty cool to watch it grow.

 

[wicked demon]

That was one of my first corals. I LOVED that thing. Actually pretty cool to watch it grow.

Do you know what species it is, I have had people say oulophyllia crispa, but that is not a caribean coral, and I am 100% sure this came out of florida.

 

[Reef Goddess]

I think they call those a rose brain or something. It is most likely from here, because if you go to Vizcaya which is a mansion that was built in 1916 here, they used hundreds of those type of brains in the walls and masonry. I know they were collected locally like the limestone rock.

 

[Sikryd]

Do you know what species it is, I have had people say oulophyllia crispa, but that is not a caribean coral, and I am 100% sure this came out of florida.

I'd have to check Vernons COTW to find the exact species, or try and figure it out. Its a brain coral in general though. I'm going to have to go and see if I have a picture in my photobucket now. I really dug it and how it grew. Not to mention it was my first real coral, besides for aptasia that I actually cut and made a frag of - lmaooooo

 

[Cuda]

Jawbreaker Mushroom

 

[Alpha Aquaculture]

one of mine red plate but crappy pic

Very rare for sure!

Well its not Rare in terms of type, but it's a rare color morph for sure. I've only seen one other pic of one that resembles it, but IMO it still doesnt look as good as mine

Most bright fungia might be an understatement!
Makes other rainbows fungias look boring, lol

 

[Russellaqua]

Don't have a pic because it didn't do well for me, but I used to have an Acrozoanthus sp. I also used to have Isaurus sp.

 

[OCREEFMASTER]

Here is my Indonesian Acanthaphyllia Desheysiana... Much more rare than it's Aussie counterpart.

 

[Ian]

Incredible Hulk leather I have never gotten another leather with a bright green body AND green tentacles. It grows fast and is soft like an anemone.

What a neat looking leather!

Here is my Indonesian Acanthaphyllia Desheysiana... Much more rare than it's Aussie counterpart.

Acanthaphyllia are actually very common...

 

[Reef Goddess]

Thanks, I'm pretty crazy about it myself. Its about 10" across. The only other person I've seen with a similar one is Captive Reefs, he calls his a Japanese leather, but he says his grows slow and mine grows fast. Of course quite a few people local to me have frags of mine now, so one day it won't be that rare. ;]

 

[OCREEFMASTER]

Acanthaphillia are common, the Desheysiana from Indonesia are not as much. The Austrailian counterparts are the common ones.