Euphyllia

Vir euphyllius: the best pictures of this little known coral shrimp

The list of cute little coral-shrimp seems like it is endless. Another very discrete crustacean that we came across during our Fluval sea Flores Expedition earlier this year is Vir euphyllius that is exclusively associated with LPS corals of the Euphyllidae…

Euphyllia ancora, the wall hammer is the coral of the year

Some years of the reef keeping hobby bring us new varieties and new species of corals for us to enjoy, but in 2013, the wall hammer was incredibly well represented across the globe. Euphyllia ancora, the wall hammer coral with the…

The Hammer Coral Cube is a Euphyllia-dominated masterpiece

The Hammer Cube is a masterpiece created by a reefer named Andrew who is located down below in Australia. He decided that with this new 60 gallon (24″) cube, he wanted to take his love affair with Euphyllia ancora to…

Elite Corals Australia bags an incredible neon highlighter yellow hammer coral

Just slightly over a month ago, Elite Corals Australia snagged up one of the most sensational bubble coral we’ve ever seen. With yellow oil sleek patterns artfully decorating a standard issue green bubble, we were knocked off our socks. This…

Incredible Gold Euphyllia is in a league of its own

樱桃珊瑚与我们分享的这种壮观的金色幼发岭有很多奇怪的事情要做,我们甚至都不知道从哪里开始。简而言之,这种金色的euphyllia具有金色火炬珊瑚的辉煌黄色。

Hammer corals come in a dizzying array of colors, including the two-toned anomaly

We’ve seen the two-toned colour anomaly affecting certain corals such as AquaticArt’s Seriatopora guttatus, but this chromatic phenomenon does not seem to be restricted amongst SPS corals. Most recently we stumbled upon a unique two-toned branching hammer coral, Euphyllia parancora, at Iwarna Aquafarm…

Euphyllia baliensis is a new large polyp stony coral with extremely thin branches

We all had a good look at the new Euphyllia baliensis with the huge announcement from Conservation International in Spring of 2011 but now the new coral has a name, and a whole lot more details on what makes this coral special.…

Top 10 new and cool corals of 2011

2011 brought us a ton of new reef fish species and although coral species and new aquairum strains come about at a crawling pace, this year was an exceptionally good one for a broad range of corals of all types.…