Bubbles, bubbles, and more bubbles: Do you keep bubble-like corals in your reef?

[Peace River]

Bubbles, bubbles, and more bubbles: Do you keep bubble-like corals in your reef?

While air bubbles in our tank can be a problem, bubbles that are part of corals and mushrooms can add texture to the collection of corals and can also add another layer of beauty to the tank. These bubble-like structures may include bubble-tip anemones, hammers, blastomussas, bubble corals, mushrooms, and more. What about you - Do you keep bubble-like corals in your reef? If so, please let us know what bubble-like corals and mushrooms that you keep and feel free to share pictures! And no, there are no bonus points for bubble algae.

Photo by @ebeez


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[Townes_Van_Camp]

Now that you say bubble, I haven't seen a bubble coral in years... What happened to them? Did they fall out of coolness?

 

[Bruttall]

Now that you say bubble, I haven't seen a bubble coral in years... What happened to them? Did they fall out of coolness?

You can still find them, I have 1 currently in my tank I bought about 6 or 7 months ago in the Omaha Ne area.

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Do nemenzophyllia count?

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

Does bubble algae count?

 

[DED65]

I have a bubble coral that has been in the tank for at least 5 years. I am surprised that it has lasted that long with the flow, space limitations and clowns. The clowns like the Goni’s, but use this as kind of a vacation home. It inflates to about double this size when the lights ramp up.

 

[Waters]

Always been one of my favorite LPS but I never have a tank with low enough flow to keep them happy.

 

[14 foot reef]

12 Year Old Green Bubble Coral ( Plerogyra sinuosa ) about 16" around

 

[tony34]

Just picked this up on Sunday. Pic is from a few hours after getting in the tank. He's still ticked off after the move but I'm very excited about it!

 

[EmmettPeck]

No bubble like corals in my reef -- but plenty of bubble like algae! :grimacing-face:

 

[CoachRichardson]

I have a piece that has grown like crazy. Doesn’t really look like a bubble and doesn’t really look like a hammer but somewhere in the middle. It’s the closest one in the pic the others are a hammer and two frogspawns

 

[LPS Bum]

I have 3 different bubble corals in my reef, in a bubble coral garden of sorts. Had all of 'em for at least 4 or 5 years, and they do great. They've all doubled or tripled in size since I got them. I have them in between my rock islands, in low flow and moderate light.

 

[LPS Bum]

12 Year Old Green Bubble Coral ( Plerogyra sinuosa ) about 16" around

Love that you have that big, beautiful Emperor Angel in your reef. Obviously he doesn't nip too much at that Bubble Coral!

 

[MoshJosh]

It’s not super big and bubbly in this photo, but it’s hiding top right:

 

[Enad]

I used to have 3 beautiful bubbles, one purple, one a unique blue, and another a beautiful teal. Sadly they all passed away in a power outage incident this past January. They were all among my favorite corals and had been through so much.

Looking to replace them with one really great and unique Bubble, but I've yet to find the right piece.

 

[twnturbo]

I used to have 3 beautiful bubbles, one purple, one a unique blue, and another a beautiful teal. Sadly they all passed away in a power outage incident this past January. They were all among my favorite corals and had been through so much.

Looking to replace them with one really great and unique Bubble, but I've yet to find the right piec

 

[twnturbo]

Very cool i thought you were talking about the bubble tip anemone type of coral