What is the number one coral that you are really passionate about right now?

[Nicerreefs]

What do you consider to be your "showcase" piece in your tank? Is it a coral, a fish, a rock formation?

We'd love to hear what you have to share with us!


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[Mr_Knightley]

For me, it's Cynarina. I recently got the opportunity to get some incredible ones for less than usual this summer, and I'm intent of spawning them at home next season. Always looking for more unique colors to add, they never get old and I love them to bits!

 

[xWascallyWabbit]

This favia right now.
First pic April.
Second pic September.

 

[MaxM]

For me, it's Cynarina. I recently got the opportunity to get some incredible ones for less than usual this summer, and I'm intent of spawning them at home next season. Always looking for more unique colors to add, they never get old and I love them to bits!

I want one so bad but min $200 is killing me

 

[BlakeStew]

I've definitely been bit by the Acro bug. Since upgrading to my reefer 350 I've been focusing on getting pieces to eventually grow into that classic reef look. Still love my Euphyllia but focusing on harder to keep corals now.

 

[MERKEY]

For me It's the 24kccMancini torch coral.

You can see the color difference next to a regular 24kcc.

In person the yellow is insane!

 

[xWascallyWabbit]

For me It's the 24kccMancini torch coral.

You can see the color difference next to a regular 24kcc.

In person the yellow is insane!


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Now where can I get one of those?!

 

[exnisstech]

I have a smaller tank full of SPS frags but they'll have to grow out before I could choose a favorite
In my 180g is a mixed reef and I don't have a “favorite" but my eyes are drawn to this end of the tank more than any where else

 

[MERKEY]

Now where can I get one of those?!

Oroginally grown in Frankies Pizza shop in NY...1stclassaquarium out of New York is the only shop that grows them for sale right now that I know of.

Quite a few have gotten them from hirecently.

Check him out for sure!

 

[Orion1885]

Not really a coral but for me a pair of csb anemones i picked up a few weeks ago

 

[KrisReef]

They are hard to photograph but there are a bunch of tiny shrimp/plankton thingies that came with this tank that are fun to watch swimming around in the sump and I am hoping to get their population elevated to a level that the lps corals can continuously feed (and grow) without supplemental feedings. The fish steal most of what the lps catch from drift feeding upon excess fish foods and I don’t want to have to cover the coral so they can swallow their food.

 

[Mr_Knightley]

For me It's the 24kccMancini torch coral.

You can see the color difference next to a regular 24kcc.

In person the yellow is insane!


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I didn't know there was a torch named after me!

 

[MERKEY]

I didn't know there was a torch named after me!

If by coincidence your last name is Mancini then YUP

It's kind of a play on the original name as this particular lineage has gotten a little heated in the torch scene lately.....

 

[Mr_Knightley]

If by coincidence your last name is Mancini then YUP

It's kind of a play on the original name as this particular lineage has gotten a little heated in the torch scene lately.....

oh my goodness xD I forgot that I have a different screen name on R2R. Everywhere else I'm @jikkermanccini

 

[Alexopora]

Porites Porites Porites, they are usually not expensive but its so hard to come by due to the fact that they are not popular. I’m always on the hunt for any that popup in my lfs.

Among the hardiest coral imho. Once established, it takes alot prob boiling hot water to kill it. Loves alot of light and alot of flow. Mine was basically a few small frags glued to a piece of live rock leaving abit of space in between (micro fragging), and just let it take off.

Mine is a branching type but it grows thick club like branches. Since i dont have a saw to frag it, a trick I would do is glue a acro/monti skeleton branch and let the porites overgrow it . That weird looking branch in the picture is an example of it.

 

[kingoftheHiLLpeople]

I just like gorgonians lol. They’re plain-ish but i love em. I think i have at last count 14 varieties and they grow like weeds - good weeds - not the other thing that grows like a weed in my tank. Hint: rhymes with aiptasia.

 

[kevgib67]

I have to go with my trachys, they always draw my eyes first.

 

[Nicerreefs]

Now where can I get one of those?!

We actually have a FCA 24K and Starburst being fragged soon

 

[las]

Aussie golden polyp gorgonian

 

[jkcoral]

I love all of my corals and nems, but this guy has been my favorite lately because it is one of the prettiest babies I’ve raised in my tank. I just wish I could take better pictures.

And if I’m allowed to break the rules, here’s another picture. “Mr. Pink Streak” is my favorite fish I’ve ever owned (along with my possum wrasse). Getting a good photo is always difficult. Here’s a decent one taken recently. I just wanted to share because the color “pop” these guys have rarely comes through in pictures online.