The Easter Egg chalice from ORA is a gorgeous raspberry pink Oxypora with yellow mouths. As a beautiful Oxypora lacera specimen, a species which is a hardy and fast growing, the Easter Egg Chalice is an optimal aquarium coral. The yellow eyes with pink body are furthermore sure to brighten up your display. Although the Read More

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Oxypora is a genus of the popular chalice corals which doesn’t get the proper recognition it deserves but that’s about to change. Global Reef Supply is at it again with another, singular, post-worthy specimen of a wondrous colony of multicolored Oxypora. To date almost all of the crazy colored chalice corals including Gonzo’s batch have been Read More

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Rainbow Chalice corals of the genus Echinophyllia have arrived, in America at least, as evidenced by the recent bumper crop of multicolor chalice coral colonies at several of the country’s specialist coral vendors. The coral slingers at Detroit Coral Farms worked very hard and long on a dedicated shipment of rainbow-bleeding multicolor chalice corals, a trio of Read More

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This story was originally posted June 2010 and since then the reef aquarium hobby has enjoyed a steady supply of these unique beautiful corals. We know more than a few of you have picked some up for your own reef tanks.  Australomussa rowleyensis is not quite a chalice coral, not quite an LPS and although Read More

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The Pink Floyd chalice corals is a hot new Echinophyllia from World Wide Corals which is sure to be one of the biggest new collectible strains of aquarium LPS. Sharing a lot in common with the original Watermelon Alien Eye chalice coral which was one of the first Echinophyllia to reach stratospheric prices, the WWC Pink Floyd chalice Read More

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Pectinia is one of the most overlooked coral genera of all the LPS stony corals and for good reason too. Until recently all the Pectinia that were collected for the aquarium trade were brown, grey or greenish with boring shapes and wicked sweeper tentacles. Only about one colony in a hundred Pectinia showed any kind of Read More

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Echinomorpha nishihirai is a distinctive looking chalice coral which can be quite a showstopper. Often eclipsed by the much more readily available Echinophyllia, Oxypora and Mycedium chalice corals, Echinomorpha is distinguished by a prominent, large central corallite and very few, widely spaced peripheral corallites – if any. Every time we see an Echinomorpha coral, we have to Read More

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Mycedium robokaki is a chalice coral that continues to surprise us. We’ll never forget the first time we spotted Mycedium robokaki with a plain tan base color and tiny bright orange mouths. Back in 2007 the reef hobby was still ruled by Acans and lords so chalices hadn’t yet hit the mainstream but even then, Read More

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What the heck is up with the crazy looking chalice corals we’ve been seeing around the last couple of months? For several years we’ve had a beautiful assortment of colors and patterns in chalice corals of the genus Echinophyllia, Oxypora, Mycedium, and Pectinia but now the chalice coral color pallette is getting cray-cray. The rainbow splattered Read More

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What did the watermelon alien eye bubble gum zombie monster chalice coral say to the reef keeper? That’s not my name. Thanks to Mark “Reef Serenity” Poletti for contributing his beautiful images for the video slideshow Read More

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