Species of coral rarely seen in the hobby?

[Subtropic Reefer]

I don't know if that place is good. Do they have good feedback? Best way to figure out if they're good is to see if they have a lot of good reviews from people who've bought corals from them.

I bought mine at my LFS. You should buy yours at some place that has a decent price (wouldn't go much over $30 for a small frag, I think), and has good reviews. Or on here, if you can find someone selling it.

"Bump" is what you put in a thread to move the thread up. A thread that has just had a post added to it goes to the top of the forum section it's in. Intentionally moving a thread to the top of a section by making a post that has no other purpose than to move the thread to the top, is called bumping. It should pretty much always be reserved just for sales threads (but only as commonly as is allowed in that area), or for threads with unanswered questions, in hopes of getting more replies.

Oh ok. Thankyou

 

[fishguy242]

@fishguy242 don't you have a blue ridge????

30 yrs still going

Has anyone kept this? It’s on live aquaria.

@najer green tubinaria

 

[najer]

 

[Tired]

Neat. What is it?

 

[Doctorgori]

That isn’t rare it’s just a green turbinaria coral lol very hardy though, almost impossible to kill

So thats what this is, told ya I forget once its in

 

[Udest]

Lol love that this thread is still going , perhaps we should draw up a list of the odd ball corals that are in the hobby that don't get enough love.

 

[Subtropic Reefer]

Lol love that this thread is still going , perhaps we should draw up a list of the odd ball corals that are in the hobby that don't get enough love.

I agree

 

[rgulrich]

Here's one it took me a while to identify. The original in my reef came in as a chip a little bit smaller than 1/4" on some live rock from Vanuatu.
Gardinoseris planulata (https://reefbuilders.com/2014/07/29/gardinoseris/
Not flashy, so not imported all that much... if ever. Here's mine after about 13 years:

That said, there are others out there that you will only see if you order a box of coral and it will pop up as a kind of an odd one out. Here's a couple from some Aussie coral boxes in our club order for a frag fest:
Look to the right side of the "pink bubble bum" (Echinophyllia aspera)...

Again, this time with only the blues on:

Yes, it has an orange oral opening.
And apologies for a blurry picture of this one with all the lighting on (I was focusing on something else...)

But for a clearer blues-only pic:

So, keep your eyes open, join a club, hang out with other reef keepers, and find something that catches your eye that you haven't seen all that often. And then ask how to care for it, before you decide to try and keep it. You could even end up with a "pet" psammocora or two (that's the green one on the right):

I've got two of these, one on each end of the reef that started from 1/2" chips about 13 years ago...and are now about 12" across each - the pillar-forming variety of long-tentacled psammocora. I've also a branching short-tentacle and an encrusting very short tentacle (it came in as a chip on the Vanuatu rock as well) psammy.

Enjoy,
Ray

 

[jdiefenbaugh]

Here ya go, 2 rarest species on the planet. Even if you could keep them, no one would because they're brown.

 

[dennis romano]

My 20 year old blue ridge. It has survived black outs and defective heaters. Not exactly eye catching, just a brown blob.

 

[Subtropic Reefer]

Here ya go, 2 rarest species on the planet. Even if you could keep them, no one would because they're brown.

I don’t care about color. I want my tank to look like a natural reef! Some people spend thousands of flashy corals. I just want my tank to resemble a natural reef. So where can I get these elk horn?

 

[Subtropic Reefer]

Here's one it took me a while to identify. The original in my reef came in as a chip a little bit smaller than 1/4" on some live rock from Vanuatu.
Gardinoseris planulata (https://reefbuilders.com/2014/07/29/gardinoseris/
Not flashy, so not imported all that much... if ever. Here's mine after about 13 years:

That said, there are others out there that you will only see if you order a box of coral and it will pop up as a kind of an odd one out. Here's a couple from some Aussie coral boxes in our club order for a frag fest:
Look to the right side of the "pink bubble bum" (Echinophyllia aspera)...

Again, this time with only the blues on:

Yes, it has an orange oral opening.
And apologies for a blurry picture of this one with all the lighting on (I was focusing on something else...)

But for a clearer blues-only pic:

So, keep your eyes open, join a club, hang out with other reef keepers, and find something that catches your eye that you haven't seen all that often. And then ask how to care for it, before you decide to try and keep it. You could even end up with a "pet" psammocora or two (that's the green one on the right):

I've got two of these, one on each end of the reef that started from 1/2" chips about 13 years ago...and are now about 12" across each - the pillar-forming variety of long-tentacled psammocora. I've also a branching short-tentacle and an encrusting very short tentacle (it came in as a chip on the Vanuatu rock as well) psammy.

Enjoy,
Ray

Ok Thankyou.

 

[Subtropic Reefer]

My 20 year old blue ridge. It has survived black outs and defective heaters. Not exactly eye catching, just a brown blob.

Which is the blue ridge?

 

[jdiefenbaugh]

I don’t care about color. I want my tank to look like a natural reef! Some people spend thousands of flashy corals. I just want my tank to resemble a natural reef. So where can I get these elk horn?

Unless you work for a professional institution and have proper permits, you can't. Any caribbean stony coral is illegal to possess.

 

[Subtropic Reefer]

Unless you work for a professional institution and have proper permits, you can't. Any caribbean stony coral is illegal to possess.

Oh those are Caribbean elks? My bad. I thought they were pacific. I would never take a carribean elk knowing how endangered they are. I like in Florida and care for all the reefs!

 

[bsr2430]

30 yrs still going

@najer green tubinaria

Seriously! Never heard or seen a Blue Ridge coral before!
I live in the Blue Ridge and feel this is something I should know or seen!!!

 

[Udest]

come to think about some of the odd balls named here they're all pretty hardy species its kinda a shame they aren't talked about much.
come to thin of another coral which I dont have and would like to is leptoseris and mancia which finds it way into the hobby occasionally

 

[DanConnor]

I have 3 varieties of Turbinaria heronensis, but I've never seen one in anyone's tank.

For softies, check the Stereonepthea threads in the softy forum. Also the previously mentioned Sympodium isn't all that rare but nice.

I have a Lava Coals Diaseris from Live Aquaria- that is certainly unusual. Speaking of LA, if you look in the LPS section of certified aquacultured, there is some cool stuff. Coscinarea, Herpolitha, etc.

 

[samnaz]

I second sympodium! I never I understood why it wasn’t more popular, it’s beautiful.

 

[samnaz]

Porites are also not too common in the trade but extremely common in the wild.