Please share your best corals!!! Do you have corals with crazy color patterns?

[MECOMI]

Please share your best corals!!! Do you have corals with crazy color patterns?

There are a lot of reasons to select different corals. Of course, some of those possible reasons are corals with amazing color patters, contrasting colors, and unique and unusual appearances. While zoanthids are only one of the coral groups with over-the-top color patterns, some of the variations definitely fit the bill and are truly eye-catching! What’s in your reef tank – do you have any corals with crazy color patterns? If so, we’d love to see pictures of them and hear any tips for enhancing the colors and patterns even more!!!

Photo by @PedroYoung

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I have a couple that fall into this category

Galaxea,

Acan,

Later days,

B-Kind

 

[Ghostbuster]

How about beautiful anemones instead?

Wow!

 

[ESABOE]

and that brings us to present day. I eagerly await the coral to encrust more and to fill in this tile. I have numerous other gonis, all of them open fully and extend fully every day. This rainbow thing, it’s gone weeks without extending at all then extends random polyps at will. It’s skeletal structure doesn’t look like a goni that died on me a while back.

I’m starting a new tank and was thinking. I really really like this coral but it will take a huge amount of time for it to grow enough for me to frag it and put in a second system. And then I thought if this randomly dies or if my tank has an issue, it could be irreplaceable and I should have a second frag, in my second system for redundancy. I reached out the seller asking if he had any more of it. HE HAD ONE FRAG LEFT. I bought it. It arrived March 1.

Pictures in my hand are arrival day, pictures on the green rack is from today. It has not extended yet but it’s open and adjusting. Looking forward to growing this out as well

Final pictures are the parent colony under actinic and daylight. Seller tells me this is how the coral is all day long once it’s established.

This is not a micro goni that stays short with an occasional long tentacle here and there. It’s not really a regular goni also. I really suspect bernardapora but would need more experienced experts to give their opinion. The parent colony is mounted on a flat 3 or 4” grow out tile

Vintage, thank you for documenting this incredible Goni’s journey so far. I’m only 5 months in on a new tank which is goni focused; I’m a bit obsessed with them!

I look forward to following the progress on your thread

 

[crewsfish]

Recent add to my tank.

 

[YBF_Reeftank]

My brightest would probably be this goni or torch

 

[dennis romano]

My chili coral looking hot today.

 

[billygalaxy]

A fairly crazily colored recent pickup, unfortunately photos just don't do it justice.

 

[Chris_Rhodes]

Just a few nice ones

 

[MrGisonni]

 

[Shaina Carey]

Pretty unnamed zoa.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

My chili coral looking hot today.

How long have you had that? Looks really nice!

 

[dennis romano]

How long have you had that? Looks really nice!

About eight months. Most of the time, it just lays there looking like a patty of chop meat.

 

[Shaina Carey]

Better pictures of the unnamed zoa. She is actually really pretty.

 

[Kellie in CA]

Not the greatest pic, but this Acantho turned out to be a fun surprise. It started as just green and orange, and has since developed dark purple and bright yellow.