~2009 Upcomming and Current Hot Corals~

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Re: JMO

Re: JMO

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15344539#post15344539 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gary Majchrzak
upcoming and current "hot" corals isn't the best place to be.
(buy low and sell high- know what I mean?)

fast track to the future: Goniopora

I never get them because they generally don't last without special care and feeding which just don't work in mixed reefs very well. Even in special biotype tanks it's a crap shoot.

Having said that, I am intrigued about a new to the hobby strain that has been showing up lately. It is carpet like/encrusting and has very small short polyps( comparable in size to some cyphastrea polps) ; some a quite colorful. From a quick look in Corals of the World , I"m guessing it's Goniopora somaliensis or a similar variant that lives in sheltered reef environments particularly under overhangs,not the turbid lagoons typical for goniopora. I wonder if it's easier to keep long term ?

Goniopora aside,I do, have a strain of xenia with provable lineage the the display tank at The Fish Place. It was my first coral , given to me by my son as a birthday present over 7 years ago.:lol:

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

ultra Gonis.
remember- you heard it here first.
interestingly enough I still have my first "coral" too (it's actually a corallimorpharian): Gary's rare and exotic metallic purple shrooms (ie: purple Discosoma)

and don't forget-metallic green star polyps will always be HOT

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

I must be way ahead of the curve- ultra Gonis have yet to catch on.


Or have they?

 

[Gravesj1s]

I have a hunch US fads will follow european ,germans.

I remeber reading somewhere ,cant remember now about certain seasquirts some other extremely difficult if not imposible to keep species was catching on and the colors were more vibrant than chalices and acans.

I have no idea if true but I did read it somewhere months ago.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

thanks for that, graves.

Somehow I doubt US fads will follow Europeans. Ascidians are colorful but will never fluoresce like corals. Or do they?

 

[Gravesj1s]

Gary~

Honestly ,I have no idea.From what I remember of the thread ,I guess their can be some pretty insane color morphs.
I just skimmed the thread at the time and didn't pay much attention to it so don't know if it was some just "yapping" or weather their was some credibility to it.

 

[GMaquarium]

Im waiting for sacrophyton and sinularia dura to make a come back.

 

[magdelan]

upcoming and current "hot" corals isn't the best place to be.
(buy low and sell high- know what I mean?)

Blue Horseshoe loves Anacott Steel.

 

[Piazzon12]

I can see Lepastrea growing in popularity

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

I can see Lepastrea growing in popularity

you mean Leptastrea?

nah. Stuff is like Porites. Usually comes in as a hitch-hiker.
It cracked me up to see DD charging big bucks for this coral.

 

[Piazzon12]

hmm... let me know when you get some of the blue, red, or purple ones that I've seen come in as a hitchhiker.... I'd be happy to take them off your hands. Some people out there are paying big bucks for them.
....and as for the yellow porites... it is one of my favorite corals.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

who knows, Adam- maybe you're right. Just because a coral was easy and cheap in the past doesn't mean it can't become the next fad.