What are the HOTTEST corals in the hobby right now?

[Dragen Fiend]

In my area

torches, bounce mushrooms and scoly.

Diaseris plates as well. Pricey as hell for such a small piece.

 

[LARedstickreefer]

Brightly colored torches, jawbreakers, and the more unique looking zoas (stratosphere, great owl, god beast).

 

[jkcoral]

Mushrooms and bubble tips are pretty hot. There’s some neat ones out there, but I think some of the popularity is driven by some people who look at them as easy to chop up/split and post on FB marketplace.

Acanthos and gonis are also pretty “trendy” right now.

 

[Troylee]

My local LFS told me zoa demand is way down, and in fact many of the pure zoa guys are starting to branch out due to low demand. Prices sure aren't going down!

A lot of vendors in Canada have been blowing out overstock sticks - great for me, but there must be a bit of a downturn in demand.

Only thing that sells in Vegas lol.. cheap and easy to care for! There’s like 3 stick heads in Vegas that I know of and a couple torch guys but the rest are all zoas and toad stools.

 

[Solo McReefer]

I mean could we get more specific? Is it just torches or something like the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious stunner torch?

Hot Corals
Hot Lava

 

[Solo McReefer]

the cookies too!

I don't get the frosted sugar cookies

Some of them make Walt seem low rent, wrong side of the tracks. Price wise

 

[jonbar1]

I hear you Rev, hard to believe how long ago it actually was that everyone had to have PPRPEs, Armageddons, Watermelon Chalice, Space Invader Pectinia, Sunset Monti, Blue Xenia, and Tyree anything.
From what I've noticed lately:

Holy Grail/ Banana/ Grinch Torches
Insanity Plate
OG Bounce Mushroom
Bounce Eclectus Mushroom
Amazeballs Goniopora
Red Glitter Goniopora
Killshot Acans
Great Owl Zoa
God Beast Zoa
Stratosphere Zoa
Nicely colored Acanthophyllias...prices are ridiculous but I can't say how in demand they are

I don't do SPS and they seem to come and go fast on hype but from an outsider I'd say:

Rainbow Splice and other nice grafted ones
Nice tenuis...too many to name
speciosas

 

[VintageReefer]

This thread needs pics?! Do you have a example of a hot item? Feel free to share in case others are unfamiliar with it!

Holy Grail/ Banana/ Grinch Torches
Insanity Plate
Amazeballs Goniopora
Nicely colored Acanthophyllias

Big Check
Medium Check
Small Check
Big check. But these can really go up in true craziness and price

 

[VintageReefer]

I don't get the frosted sugar cookies

What is this?

 

[WhatCouldGoWrong71]

By the looks of all the LFS in my area:
1) Green star polyps.
2) Aiptasia
3) Mojano

(I’m kidding btw, lol)

 

[SimbaAnto]

Holy Grails Torches
OG Bounce
Grafted SPS
Homewrecker
Walt Disney
Hologram Hammer
Glitter Goniopora

 

[VintageReefer]

What bout grafted hammer?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

any torch over $250

i personally like jesters-the insanity jester is stunning.

Those are some incredible torches!

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

Softies seem to be making a comeback in my area. But usually whatever is the most colorful. Zoas and torches are always popular. Sticks are popular amongst the stickheads, but not usually mainstream.

Who wants to b mainstream, just sayin, lol. Any of the above mentioned with some lps like Goni, and micromussa / micro favites. Into the OG and smooth skin types, Gotta appreciate the sticks!!!

 

[bubbgee]

I think anything that has contrasting bright colors will be in demand. This goes for all species of corals

Gonipora I also think is in demand now. Amazeballs is almost impossible to find for less than $400 for a sub 1” frag

I've been lucky to get a couple of amazeballs in auctions for under $300 each

 

[VintageReefer]

I've been lucky to get a couple of amazeballs in auctions for under $300 each

That sounds super lucky!

Where are these “auctions”

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Who wants to b mainstream, just sayin, lol. Any of the above mentioned with some lps like Goni, and micromussa / micro favites. Into the OG and smooth skin types, Gotta appreciate the sticks!!!

I've started to see a lot more goni appreciation recently

 

[bubbgee]

That sounds super lucky!

Where are these “auctions”

There are advertising on this site that mention auctions like TCK, ARC, AquaSD, Corals.com among others. Look it up on marketplace and they run weekly.

 

[VintageReefer]

I've started to see a lot more goni appreciation recently

I got a black and gold Goni. Well it’s very very very deep dark purple but it looks black and I think that’s pretty cool. Not many coral are black, and this has gold tips

 

[VintageReefer]

There are advertising on this site that mention auctions like TCK, ARC, AquaSD, Corals.com among others. Look it up on marketplace and they run weekly.

unique corals has put amazeballs on eBay a few times recently for low starting price but they set the reserve around 400 lol