Every coral genus we grow or collect, one page each: what it is, how to identify it, the care it actually needs, and what is in stock right now. Every WYSIWYG photo is the exact animal that ships.
LPS — large polyp stony corals
- Torch coral — flowing tentacles, fluorescent tips, the gateway Euphyllia
- Hammer coral — anvil-shaped tips; wall vs branching decides divisibility
- Frogspawn — branched tips; the third Euphyllia
- Acans (Micromussa) — fleshy ringed polyps that grow fastest when fed
- Scolymia — one polyp, one animal, collector prices
- Open brains (Trachyphyllia) — free-living sand-dwellers that inflate to triple size
- Brain corals — maze brains and the big meat corals
- Favia & Favites — encrusting brains with night-time sweepers
- Chalice — plating sheets, scattered eyes, six-inch sweepers
- Goniopora — the flowerpot coral, easy when conditioned
- Bubble coral — grape-like vesicles by day, sweepers by night
- Candy cane coral — trumpet polyps on branching stalks; the classic first LPS
- Duncan coral — long-tentacled discs that eat from your hand
- Blastomussa — the mushroom look on a stony skeleton, made for the shade
- Lobophyllia — the lobed brain for the sandbed
- Plate coral (Fungia) — free-living on the sand, and it walks
SPS — small polyp stony corals
- Acropora — the summit of the hobby; axial corallites at every tip
- Montipora — the right first SPS — plating, encrusting, branching
- Birdsnest & pocilloporids — the SPS to try first; Seriatopora, Stylophora, Pocillopora
- Encrusting corals — Pavona, Leptastrea, Hydnophora and the other rock painters
Soft corals and corallimorphs
- Mushroom corals — Discosoma, Rhodactis and Ricordea; the forgiving ones
- Florida Ricordea — hand-collected in the Keys under our marine life license
- Zoanthids & Palythoa — colony polyps, named morphs, palytoxin safety
- Gorgonians — Keys-collected sea rods and plumes
- Leathers, cloves & pipe organ — the classic softies that built the hobby
Anemones and invertebrates
- Anemones — bubble tips, rock flowers, and what they need that corals don’t
- Clean-up crew — match the snails, hermits and shrimp to the actual job
- Copepods, phyto & macroalgae — feeding the reef itself, refugium seeding, mandarin support
Not sure what you are looking at? Start with the 27-coral identification guide. New to the hobby? Beginner corals is the honest list. And whatever you pick, build a box — shipping and packing are per box, not per coral.
Every stony coral we sell is aquacultured at the shop in Key West under Florida Aquaculture Certificate #AQ0254072, and the photo on a WYSIWYG listing is the exact animal that ships. Corals ship UPS Overnight every Tuesday and Wednesday. If you are ever in Key West, come see the raceways.