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Pictured is a nice little colony of green and red Zoanthids. These Zoas have a red center with a slight amount of purple/blue surrounding that center. The skirt on these polyps are a bright green. I’m not sure of their commercial name, but they certainly look good.

This has got to be one of my favorite coral pictures. This is a photo of a neon green Torch coral with fairly long polyps. These corals are very similar to Frogspawn and Hammer corals, only differing in the shape and length of their polyps.

When I originally stumbled across this coral I was quite impressed. Most Duncan corals come in the standard green, but as you can tell from the picture above, this coral is purple with a slight bit of green on the tips. Despite the drastic color differences between green and purple individuals, there is only one [...]

I know we already posted a picture of a Neon Green Candy Cane, but I couldn’t resist posting this one as well. This candy cane is a much larger colony than the one we previously discussed. It is also a more neon color. And as with other LPS, these corals have large fleshy polyps covering [...]

Frogspawn corals, much like hammer and torch corals, have a hard calcium skeleton adorned with huge fleshy polyps. The polyps of the frogspawn very easily resemble their namesake…the spawn of frogs, or frog eggs. If you’ve even been in/near a pond in springtime, you’d know what I’m talking about.

Zoanthids are very pretty and very easy to care for. These zoas are a deep blue with a slightly red/black skirt surrounding the central disk. Oftentimes they are misidentified as Tubb’s Blue Zoanthids, which they are not. The Tubb’s Blues are a lighter blue.

This blue Acropora coral is positively glowing due to the aquarium being treated with ZEOvit products. This filtration and additive based system allows corals to achieve a more “natural” color and display extended polyps.

Pictured above is a solid red Cynaria, or Doughnut coral. These are fairly similar to Scolymias, but are a lot more fleshy.

Pictured above is a very large green and pink hammer coral (Euphyllia ancora). Normally the color of the fleshy polyps is solid green, but under VHO lighting they seem to have turned a slight pink, keeping their green tips.

Pulsing Xenia is one of those corals that can be both a pest and a gorgeous specimen. The unique pulsing action of each polyp makes for an entertaining site for sure, but these corals can grow and reproduce very quickly.