Picture of the Week, Heliofungia Plate Coral
In the world of plate corals, the long tentacle heliofungiids are pretty much biggest kid on the block. They grow extremely large, often far larger than your typical Fungia or Cycloseris plate, and their tentacles are significantly longer. In fact, the tentacles of this plate coral can become so abundant that at quick glance, the [...]
Picture of the Week, Plate Corals Aplenty at Next Wave
Plate corals, like most other corals in this hobby, fall in and out of popularity on a routine basis. One day they are hot enough to command hundreds of dollars per individual, the next you couldn’t pay someone to take them off your hands. Fortunately, for plate coral lovers like ourselves, the first half of [...]
ReefKoi Wows Us with the Fruity Pebbles Plate Coral
There are jaw-dropping plate corals, and then there is this, a unique one of a kind rainbow plate coral that’s being dubbed “Fruity Pebbles” by our friends at ReefKoi Corals. This coral is so insanely colored that it would even drive Barney Rubble nuts! Cheesy Flintstones references aside, this is the best and brightest plate [...]
Some Sexy New Plate Corals Have Just Landed at ReefKoi Corals
ReefKoi Corals, the Colorado based online retailer of some amazing and surprisingly affordable reef aquarium livestock, has listed a couple of extremely colorful and rare plate corals on their site very recently. While ReefKoi typically carries at least a handful of noteworthy pieces on a regular basis, these plates are probably the two single most [...]
Awesome Plate Coral Teased by Blue Glow Aquaculture
A while back, our pals at Blue Glow Aquaculture branched out from their acrylic products to also offer live corals, and judging by the looks of it, they’ve done a great job bringing in some amazing pieces. They recently showed a plate coral over on their Reef2Reef forum, and it’s one of the best we’ve [...]
Amazing Masterpiece Fungia Shows up at Cherry Corals
Some coral retailers just have it going on, and the guys at Cherry Corals always seem to amaze us, especially with their always amazing plate corals. Their latest acquisition is a particularly unique specimen, as it sports alternating orange and white stripes, a vibrant blue mouth, touches of green, purple tipped tentacles, and sort of [...]
Crazy Purple Plate Coral from Reefer’s Cove
Plate corals are making a big resurgence in the aquarium hobby lately, and we’ve been lucky enough to spy some real gems floating around the online markets of aquarium forums and fishy retailers. The latest hot plate comes to us from Reefer’s Cove, who recently showed off an extensive spread of plate coral photos over [...]
Amazing Plate Coral Shows Up at Coral Gazers
We love highlighting jawdropping corals here at the AquaNerd Blog, and the crew at Coral Gazers has us gazing with awe at their latest stunning addition, a very beautiful and unique plate coral. Recently shown off on the company’s Reef2Reef Page, the drool inducing plate sports an orange base coloration with white stripes running along [...]
Hands Down, The Sickest Plate Coral Ever
Aquarium keepers have an unquenchable thirst for over the top, insanely colored corals, and looking at the latest gem from Roc Citi Coralz, we can certainly understand why. The guys at this New York based coral vendor got their hands on the sickest plate coral that we’ve ever seen and were showing it off over [...]
Stunning Red Plate from Roc Citi Coralz
We love plate corals. They aren’t exactly a rare type of coral, but they certainly don’t dominate the scene either. This especially holds true when they have such awesome colors like the one pictured above, originally posted by Roc Citi Coralz over on Reef2Reef. As if red plate corals weren’t already hard enough to obtain, [...]
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