What's the UGLIEST coral you've ever seen for Sale?

[RussiReef]

brown acro frag

 

[burningmime]

I'm gonna be weird and say encrusting and/or tabling montipora. A single (usually very visible orange/red) color thing that just gets huge and is impossible to remove. If you don't like a leather, you just rip it out and frag it; if you don't like a monti that's encrusted on a rock, you kinda need to take out the whole rock, and if it's encrusted on bare bottom tank, you better have a chisel.

 

[mdb_talon]

My wife is kinda into it... well at this point, i guess she has to be. "HEY BABE, How about a 300,000 dollar aquaculture facility?" I had to ease her into that one..

Lucky you to have the support. It is nice when pursuing your dream (my assumption anyway) to have that support.

 

[ReefChasers]

Lucky you to have the support. It is nice when pursuing your dream (my assumption anyway) to have that support.

110% Necessary without a doubt -- that's on the real.

 

[ReefChasers]

I'm thinking as far as ugly corals go I'm gonna go with clove polyps. Don't like them never have they just get dirty and trap detritus and you can't give them the flow to keep them clean.

 

[elysics]

Brown Cynarina... A mix between snot and a rotting carcass

 

[Just a Wrasse.]

Mushrooms with tumors I will never understand the bounce trend

Wow, ouch.

 

[Just a Wrasse.]

I'm thinking as far as ugly corals go I'm gonna go with clove polyps. Don't like them never have they just get dirty and trap detritus and you can't give them the flow to keep them clean.

Oh yeah.

 

[homer1475]

I was recently in florida on an emergency trip, went to a couple LFS near Largo. They had some of the ugliest encrusting corals I have ever seen. Not sure if they were local to florida, but all 3 had the same black and white encrusting coral. And not just a few frag plugs, but an entire table full of these ugly little frags.

So wish I had taken a picture.

I would also agree on the bounce phenomenon. 8 or so years ago, you couldn't give away mushrooms, give it a tumor and the price just went up 100 fold. lol

 

[Just John]

I was recently in florida on an emergency trip, went to a couple LFS near Largo. They had some of the ugliest encrusting corals I have ever seen. Not sure if they were local to florida, but all 3 had the same black and white encrusting coral. And not just a few frag plugs, but an entire table full of these ugly little frags.

So wish I had taken a picture.

I would also agree on the bounce phenomenon. 8 or so years ago, you couldn't give away mushrooms, give it a tumor and the price just went up 100 fold. lol

I never go to that place anymore. The staff is mostly guys whose go-to answer is "Uh, I don't know."

 

[LiveFreeAndReef]

bounce shrooms! Oh expensive colorful tumors? yay

 

[parkwaytrash]

Though I think all are amazing, my Kenya tree is, in comparison to my other corals, *****

 

[rhostam]

Mushrooms with tumors I will never understand the bounce trend

Perhaps that fact that they became trendy is off putting to you?

Or is it the wildly colorful growths that bother you?

What if we turned back time and someone determined that these were sitting along side other mushrooms all along, were naturally occurring, and weren’t aberrations?

 

[kagisexton]

I was recently in florida on an emergency trip, went to a couple LFS near Largo. They had some of the ugliest encrusting corals I have ever seen. Not sure if they were local to florida, but all 3 had the same black and white encrusting coral. And not just a few frag plugs, but an entire table full of these ugly little frags.

So wish I had taken a picture.

I would also agree on the bounce phenomenon. 8 or so years ago, you couldn't give away mushrooms, give it a tumor and the price just went up 100 fold. lol

Lol I live in Largo right down Ulmerton from this place, I know exactly what you are talking about. I stopped going there years ago. Ugly corals in general.

 

[James_O]

I don’t think there’s such thing as an “ugly” coral, just as I don’t think there’s such thing as an ugly fish. (All fish were created for a purpose, and I see that purpose in their design)

“Eh coral” on the other hand? Plenty of those. Never got the rage for monti’s. Is it an actual coral? Or just a thin layer of color? ;Facepalm

 

[Wyvern]

I don’t think there’s such thing as an “ugly” coral, just as I don’t think there’s such thing as an ugly fish. (All fish were created for a purpose, and I see that purpose in their design)

“Eh coral” on the other hand? Plenty of those. Never got the rage for monti’s. Is it an actual coral? Or just a thin layer of color? ;Facepalm

So my M.M Blenny "Scoot Gordo" isn't ugly?

 

[James_O]

So my M.M Blenny "Scoot Gordo" isn't ugly?

No! He’s derpy, there’s a difference.

 

[JayinToronto]

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This brown leather.
Sometimes things are so ugly that it makes them cute.
Not this time.

That’s cool

 

[DeniseAndy]

Only ones I really do not get is the Palythoa grandis. Just blah. Also snake polyps. Now, these creatures as animals are of course cool. All of them are, but just ugly.

Kind of like pugs in the dog world. Or sphinx in the cat world.

 

[Falreef]

Dang, I’ve got a cool growth but reddish brown blue ridge coral on a disc developing spires. Also have devils hands - you have to appreciate them for what they are.