Awesome Fungiid is either Podabacia or a special form of Lithophyllon
Podabacia is a very unique genus of disc corals which is hardly never seen in the aquarium trade, let alone in any interesting color. How are lucky are we then that we stumbled upon an amazing colony of Podabacia motuporensis, in teal blue, with the perfect size and shape to put next to an also-blue Lithophyllon Read More
Reefgen’s Project X Fungia is an absolute showstopper
Can you picture an encrusting Fungia coral with a body as fuschia as can be with fluo-green tentacles? Well thanks to Reefgen we don’t have to use our imagination because it’s real and it’s called the Project X Fungia – such a cool name. The Project X Fungia is an amazing strain of Fungia, we’re Read More
White Corals hits a mother lode of disc corals
White Corals has been on the Reef Builders front page before for plenty of cool corals and livestock, and now they’ve done it again with this crazy mother lode of disc and plate corals. It is no secret we like Cycloseris and Fungia corals here at Reef Builders and shipments like these is one of Read More
Red wagon wheel Fungia fralinae is a planetary alignment of perfect features
The red wagon wheel Fungia fralinae is a “new” coral strain which really caught us off guard, not only for its stunning beauty but also for its consistent appearance. The Fungia fralinae with the pattern like a red wagon wheel is characterized by having a crazy bright alternation of red and blue-white stripes, purple mouth, Read More
Sandalolitha boucheti, a new species of Fungiid stony coral from Vanuatu and Sabah Malaysia
Sandalolitha boucheti is a new species of Fungiid stony coral that demonstrates the need for more basic coral species research and surveying. Seems like every week we have new species of reef fish being described but it’s much less often that we get to gawk at papers of newly described species of stonies. So far Sandalolitha boucheti is only Read More
Red Cycloseris shows up at Happy Coral
Red disc corals are hot, and red Cycloseris are even hotter. It’s been a while since we saw a good killer red Cycloseris so you can imagine our reaction when we heard that not one, but two red Cycloseris showed up at Happy Coral. Although these red Cycloseris specimens may not be as bright as the 2009 Read More
Time lapse video of disc and tongue corals show innate ability to survive being buried
It’s fairly well known that disc coral and tongue coral can excavate themselves after being buried with sand but a couple new time-lapse videos of Fungia scutaria and Herpolitha limax show something more. Not only do both of these corals inflate the fleshy part of their polyp in response to being buried, but they also display a Read More
Outstanding Fungia fralinae could become the first captive raised strain of disc coral
Fungia fralinae is a fairly common, popular and robust species of disc coral which is more often an attractive green color with orange mouths. It is actually less common to get Fungia fralinae as an individual polyp than as the remnants of an old colony which has died and been reborn with small polyp ‘anthoblasts’ which Read More
Rare orange Fungia plate coral shows up at Reefkoi
We really cringe when we see nearly all orange plate corals labeled as ‘orange Fungia’ corals since the typical, standard-issue orange disc corals are by and large all orange Cycloseris corals. However, we have seen one extra large orange Fungia way back in the day, only once, and looks like Reefkoi has come up with Read More
RB Personal Shopper: Attack of the killer Cycloseris
Cycloseris are some of the hardiest and most colorful LPS corals available to reefers. We love all kinds of Cycloseris including Rainbow Cycloseris and we even had a Cycloseris of the year contest at the end of 2009. About a month ago we brought you a recent edition of RB personal shopper focused on Lobophyllia Read More