WTB Uncommon Soft Corals

[mauraii]

Looking for

Koji wada pink nephthea

Purple and yellow stereonephthea

other rare branching soft coral

Taiwan crystal kenya tree

Yellow Fijian/Tonga toadstool

White tip toadstool

Japanese toadstool

Any rare toadstools

Palau nephthea

Biota Blue rhodactis

WWC True Blue Xenia

 

[weelo111]

I have a handful of those on your list - looking to trade for other unique softies if you have any.

 

[mauraii]

I have a handful of those on your list - looking to trade for other unique softies if you have any.

Sorry, I've just been keeping normal, beginner softies, trying to branch into more interesting ones. Just have a big brown sinularia, zoas, and GSP.

 

[bakbay]

Sorry, I've just been keeping normal, beginner softies, trying to branch into more interesting ones. Just have a big brown sinularia, zoas, and GSP.

Get torches, acans, and chalices — very colorful creatures! One you want a challenge, go for SPS.

When you’ve done all that and got bored like me, get yourself a bunch of anemones.

When you’re bored with all that — get a bigger tank, rinse, and repeat!

 

[bakbay]

I honestly didn’t think that softies can be “rare” but that’s just me! Can someone share some “rare” specimens?

 

[JojosReef]

I honestly didn’t think that softies can be “rare” but that’s just me! Can someone share some “rare” specimens?

Don't know if it's rare, but pink Nepthea is an amazing soft coral.

 

[bakbay]

Don't know if it's rare, but pink Nepthea is an amazing soft coral.

Agree — I have a huge colony of that for years now. I’ve fragged and gave away to family & friends. They are very resilient. As a bonus, they look pretty cool and don’t drop babies that will consume your tank.

 

[OldReefGuy]

I honestly didn’t think that softies can be “rare” but that’s just me! Can someone share some “rare” specimens?

Yellow Fiji Sarcophyton
......LOL

 

[drexel]

Lemnalia and paralemnalia are cool, S. elegans (Fiji yellow). Not rare but cool, tubipora musica. Lobophytum (devil's hand) species can be cool and there's a blue variety that's pretty nice. Isaurus (snake polyps) species are very cool, kinda ugly, but cool. Hard to find mushrooms would be amplexidiscus (elephant ear) species, these things can get huge and they can also grab smaller fish. The one soft coral everyone thinks is an sps coral, heliopora (blue ridge) is a true octocoral, not rare, but often overlooked. In the 90's I worked at one of the few coral farms in the country and we had tons of soft corals (over 120 species), so soft corals hold a special place for me. A lot of them will look nice under blues, but there are far more that absolutely shine under daylight spectrums. Xenia (especially pulsing varieties) were treated as refugium species because they were so good at soaking up nutrients.

 

[mauraii]

Agree — I have a huge colony of that for years now. I’ve fragged and gave away to family & friends. They are very resilient. As a bonus, they look pretty cool and don’t drop babies that will consume your tank.

got any extra koji wada? thats my most wanted

 

[illnino]

Hit me up in a few months. I just found the brightest leather toadstool I have ever seen. I have to let it grow so I can share..

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[thresher]

Hit me up in a few months. I just found the brightest leather toadstool I have ever seen. I have to let it grow so I can share..

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Sick! You Win. Let me know when you frag that thing.

 

[bakbay]

got any extra koji wada? thats my most wanted

Not a good shot of it but here she is in the center, next to GSP. I can frag one for you.

 

[Socal PT]

Check in with Ali at Amazing Reefs and Aquarium in Orange. He has a few varieties of the old school toadstools and other cool/rare softies