What are todays most sought after LPS corals?

[Chrissypoo]

I've been out of the loops for a couple years.

 

[chrisfont23]

Personally, I can't find Acans anywhere. Euphyllia are my favorite. Duncan's too. Anything "Aussie" is top notch and super expensive

 

[CRJ]

cant remember the name but it was an orange carpet type coral. either way, bright road cone orange, wanted $200 for it.

Its all about the color

 

[Donkeykong]

Scoly's are definitly on the top of the price chart. as already mentioned nything Aussie are also on the hot list.

 

[Stryk9]

For me it's all about acans. I also like scolys and certain zoos.

 

[bfam4t6]

Color.

As far as what specifically offers the best colors I'd say

Scolys/Chalices are probably tied for number 1. A LFS recently sold a large chalice colony for $2,300...if that tells you anything. This same store charges a flat $350 for all scolymias.

I'd say acans are a very close second. I've seen people charge $45 per polyp for rainbow acans. If you have a colony, then you're sitting on some dough!

And for that matter, anything "rainbow," consisting of at least three or more different colors, is going to cost a pretty penny and grab peoples' attention.

 

[staindsoul]

Scolys, chalices seem to be the hottest and rainbow acans.

I can understand scolys, but chalices? There are some really cool colors, but they just look ugly to me. Blobs of snot, but thats Just my $ .02. I wanna eventually pick up some premier scolys and some uncommon euphyllia frags.

 

[Wills612]

I think anything slow growing is going to cost ya. For me favia's are the slow growers in my tank

 

[Wills612]

I think anything slow growing is going to cost ya. For me favia's are the slow growers in my tank

 

[joe3196]

scolies bro they are the most expensive and colorful i dont know aboute rare but most people want one.

 

[Turbo snail]

As far as acans, it's not specifically the color of the color as number of colors per polyps. I've seen extremely nice rainbow acans go for $50-$100 per polyp. If you look at cost/area, that easily matches the price of any scolly. Then there are chalices, which I don't particularly like, but people pay hundreds for frags of the nicest ones

 

[Subw00er]

Ya I'd say chalice and scoly too. Some of the zoas that are named are pricey too, but thats a stupid fad.

 

[johntran216]

Acans come in many different colors and are fairly affordable. They're my favorite lps. Chalices have some really nice colors too, but they're just too boring.