The Cherry Corals Burning Sky Chalice is a Jaw Dropper
Cherry Corals is known for their top notch WYSIWYG corals, but their latest offering is a big step up, even for them. Their latest and greatest, called the ‘Burning Sky Chalice’ is a dazzling coral that sports almost a three dimensional look to it. If you gaze at the center of the coral, the yellow [...]
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 [...]
Picture of the Week, Rainbow Lobophyllia
Pictured in this week’s installment of the AquaNerd Picture of the Week is a Rainbow Lobophyllia open brain coral hanging out in a forest of Acanthastrea lordhowensis and other gorgeous LPS corals. This particular coral has a healthy mix of colors, with a deep purple mouth region surrounded by dark green flesh that’s outlined in [...]
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 [...]
LiveAquaria’s “Frag of the Month” is One Hot Acro
Did you know that LiveAquaria has a “Frag of the Month”? Every month, the online retailer posts a new hot item on their Facebook Page, showing off an aquacultured piece that they’ve grown in house at their Rhinelander, Wisconsin facility, home of the famous “Diver’s Den”. Throughout the past months the special frags have included: [...]
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 [...]
The Amazing QuadraScoly From Route 66 Marine
Scolymia corals have been quite the crowd favorite among the high end LPS enthusiasts for quite some time, but they are typically only encountered as single polyp corals, albeit vividly colored single polyp corals. Occasionally, we do get to see an individual that’s starting to or just recently split into two distinct mouths. Heck, we’ve [...]
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, [...]
Coral Naming Losing Its Significance?
A decade ago, coral naming was mostly limited to the select high-end pieces that showed up on a coral vendor’s doorstep once in a blue moon. At that time, most coral enthusiasts were just using names that described a particular coral’s color and type, for example green button polyps. Guys like Steve Tyree had the [...]
Amazing Nightmare Plate Coral Surfaces at Efrain Corals
We’re not exactly the biggest fans of green corals, but for this amazing plate coral we could certain make an exception. Right around a week ago, the Puerto Rico-based coral retailer Efrain Corals showed off their amazing Nightmare Plate Coral that sports a deep green hue with a vibrant rainbow colored rim and blue stripes. [...]
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