Some Of Jason Fox’s Personal Favorite Corals

In the United States Jason Fox’s name has become synonymous with very unique and collectable corals. If that’s what you’re into, then visiting Jason’s own tanks is like visiting a boutique of fine coral shopping and propagation. I had the opportunity to do just that earlier this summer and while I focused on taking video which will be compiled into an incredible video of his place, I did snap a few pictures of some of his prized reef creatures.

The one and only Raja Rampage Mycedium chalice coral.

Last week I showed you the Tang Party at Jason Fox’s place, and today I want to show you some of Jason’s all time favorite corals. Some of these you know already, such as the Raja Rampage which is unmistakeable from across a room, and others might be more subtle but still rank prominently on his list of favorites, and represented within several of his aquariums.

It’s super cool that like most coral reefers, Jason loves something about all different corals. But in our daily reefing practice, there are a few coral colonies and strains which repeatedly get top billing in prominent places of his reef tanks. I know I’m like that with some of my ‘Legacy Corals’ that I’ve been growing on and off since the early 2000s.

Jason just updated his website with a major overhaul in the layout and spanking new photographs and tons of corals on offer. So without further ado, here are some, but not even close to all, of Jason Fox’s personal favorite corals.

One coral that will likely never see propagation is this brilliant vivid pink cycloseris

The Walt Disney Tenuis Acropora is one of the most recognizable names in collector corals today.

Here’s a side-by-side shot of the Walt Disney Acro in the bottom right, with the slightly more colorful Homewrecker in the top left.

Two different ‘grafted’ Montipora caps with different displays of infection by rogue green fluorescent protein.

A delightful blue bottlebrush acro with neon green polyps all over the colony

This crazy Turbinaria heronensis has some degree of GFP infection which developped years after he acquired the colony

The dual-tone green coloration of the Enchanted Forrest birdnest coral is hard to capture but is a lime green in the branches, with metallic green polyps

Another double-green coral which is one of MY favorite fox corals is the limelight Hydnophora

Not a screamer by any means but still very unique and interesting is the sort-of branching Montipora hirsuta

Jason has quite a nursery of various bounce shrooms in various stages of growth and development

The jack-o-lantern Leptoseris is now a classic coral which still gets prominent placing in several of Jason’s reefs

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Jake Adams

Jake Adams has been an avid marine aquarist since the mid 90s and has worked in the retail side of the marine aquarium trade for more than ten years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and has been the managing editor of ReefBuilders.com since 2008. Jake is interested in every facet of the marine aquarium hobby from the concepts to the technology, rare fish to exotic corals, and his interests are well documented through a very prolific career of speaking to reef clubs and marine aquarium events, and writing articles for aquarium publications across the globe. His primary interest is in corals which Jake pursues in the aquarium hobby as well as diving the coral reefs of the world.