Kush Corals Unveils One Of The Dankest Discosoma’s Around

Late last week Bobby Moon of Kush Corals got in an extremely unique batch of disco’s. Sporting a beige/yellow base with green highlights and blue/purple splotchy vesicles/pseudo tentacles these mushrooms are some of the nicest I have seen. They adeptly…

Panic! at the Disco(soma) – An Overview of Discosoma spp. Corallimorphs

Many reef hobbyists, myself included, may have had their first foray at coral husbandry courtesy of a corallimorph. These so-called “mushroom-corals” of the taxonomic order Corallimorpharia are not true stony corals phylogenetically, but instead, represent a sort of “missing link”…

Wicked Aurora Jawbreaker Mushroom Has Supernatural Coloration

The Mushroom Anemone craze is still in full swing and it seems like we haven’t yet reached the end of this collectable rabbit hole. The latest mind-blowing strain to makes an aquaristic debut is this wild ‘Aurora Borealis’ mushroom anemone which…

Bounce mushroom sells for record $6,000 for a single polyp!

There was a lot of news to come out of this last weekend’s Reefapalooza in Costa Mesa California but the coral heads were all talking about one thing: a single ginormous polyp of the infamous Bounce Mushroom sold for a…

Sarcophyton Leather Corals: Attractive, Toxic, and Tough as Nails

When it comes to hardiness, ease of care, and general adaptability, few corals can compare to those of the genus Sarcophyton—the so-called toadstool, or mushroom, leather corals. Despite their lack of chromatic brilliance, they’re also pretty neat looking to boot.…