Rare Corals/Corals Absent from the Hobby

[thamnasteroid]

Are there any corals either seldom found or nonexistent in the hobby that you wish you could keep or were more common in the hobby?

I'm keeping one rule on this thread that the corals have to realistically be able to enter into the hobby, so no Caribbean, Western Indian Ocean, temperate, or deepwater corals

I'll start:
Currently, virtually all Leptoseris in the hobby are of one species: L. mycetoseroides. I would love to see other Leptoseris species be imported--maybe something like L. papyracea/gardineri, or L. explanata/scabra.
Leptoseris gardineri; North Sulawesi, Indonesia | Credit: Ingo Rogalla

Leptoseris scabra; Funafuti, Tuvalu | Credit: Debra Baker

 

[Goaway]

Pectinia elongata.
Going to borrow this picture from @fishguy242 as he's the last person I know who had a colony.
The last frag I saw was sold by liveaquaria

 

[RSNJReef]

My unicorns are a true lemon drop anemone and a red torch coral. I’d set up a whole separate system for something like this:

 

[officialreefbros]

My unicorns are a true lemon drop anemone and a red torch coral. I’d set up a whole separate system for something like this:

That torch exists? That's crazy!

 

[Nate Chalk]

Pectinia elongata.
Going to borrow this picture from @fishguy242 as he's the last person I know who had a colony.
The last frag I saw was sold by liveaquaria

You mean this?

 

[Goaway]

You mean this?

Yes.

 

[Nate Chalk]

Yes.

Found at a shop in Cincinnati Ohio last week !

 

[Nate Chalk]

Will grow you a piece @Goaway :)

 

[tREEFarm]

Found at a shop in Cincinnati Ohio last week !

Which one?

 

[hunterallen40]

Grabbed one at RAP yesterday that I hadn't seen before. Sold as "acan maxima", which I think is Micromussa pacifica now. Very nice colors. Looks like a button scoly (when not mad lol -- I did just get this yesterday), but grows baby heads.

 

[BigKid4788]

Found at a shop in Cincinnati Ohio last week !

Aquarium Artisian?

 

[Goaway]

Will grow you a piece @Goaway :)

I think i have something. But, falling corals kill. Will snag pics in the afternoon. Looks like she's healing weird. But, healing.

 

[RSNJReef]

My unicorns are a true lemon drop anemone and a red torch coral. I’d set up a whole separate system for something like this:

Yes those were real. Saw actual videos of them under daylight lights years ago. The problem is that from what I understand all of them that got sold did not survive.

 

[moretor1]

Idea how rare carpet mushrooms are tbh most I see are sold out and I have yet to see a single website that actually classifies their taxonomy

I truly believe that Rhodactis Sp. is a misclassification for these guys, as their behavior is more akin to ricordea and they dont close up like every other species of rhodactis ive seen

Has anyone ever done genetic testing of carpet mushrooms to verify?

Any taxonomists who would like to chime in?

I've heard that ricordea were misclassified as carpet anemones for a while

 

[Goaway]

Yes those were real. Saw actual videos of them under daylight lights years ago. The problem is that from what I understand all of them that got sold did not survive.

It's pretty sad. Some pieces hit the hobby. And we never see them again.

 

[PM Corals]

Coming from an exporter, what is brought in is dictated by the market. We would love to collect and send cool new or strange things, but often times they are not the radiating corals. With odd ball stuff, people are too particular, let alone the price they would be will to pay for a potentially brown thing. That being said. Here is a great example of something very uncommon, but cool.

 

[Nate Chalk]

I think i have something. But, falling corals kill. Will snag pics in the afternoon. Looks like she's healing weird. But, healing.

Iam trying to collect more pectinia. We can swap :)

 

[Nate Chalk]

Which one?

Discover aquatics

 

[MoshJosh]

Would like to see more of these. . . Heliofungia actiniformis?

 

[Nate Chalk]

@Goaway close but probably not same... But also from shop last week might need color