High end, rare, underrated or not often seen softies.

fragit · Jun 17, 2018

Picked up these two yesterday. 4 shrooms I’ve never seen before, purple base with green hair. Yellow Steronephtea still acclimating.

Opus · Jun 17, 2018

Ordered a Koji Wada frag last night using the 20% off coupon. Can't believe they had one with the sale going on and WYSIWYG at that. Now I just need to find a nice yellow toadstool.

Rispa · Jun 19, 2018

Salt and More Auction House on Facebook has a weeping willow toadstool on the block right now. Auction ends tonight

Opus · Jun 22, 2018

Well, I'm really bummed out. They shipped the Koji out Tuesday night along with several other soft corals I ordered, 5 in total. I checked around 2am on the package and it was already showing delayed. I'm assuming that means UPS was too slow and didn't make it to the plane with the package. It didn't show up until 10:40 on Thursday. I had already emailed UC and they said everything should be fine that they pack stuff to last 48 hours. Was feeling ok until I got home and opened the package. You could feel the heat escape when I opened the box. The bags with the Koji, interstellar mushroom and a green nepthea were very cloudy and apparently they got so stressed from the heat that they disintegrated. There was nothing in the bag but the frag plug. UC is not sure they have another Koji to send out. That was the only reason I placed the order.

cristata.reef · Jun 22, 2018

I'm surprised no one has said blue-green sympodium. Not the invasive blue cloves (sansibia), but something entirely different. Mine are still acclimating so I haven't bothered to take a pic since they haven't opened yet. They have a red encrusting base, brilliant blue-green polyps, and when they are closed they have black and white stripes on the outside of the polyps. Easy to keep and not as much of a spreader as GSP but fast enough to get some nice coverage

Here's a liveaquaria link to them for reference: https://www.liveaquaria.com/product/3082/blue-sympodium-polyp?pcatid=3082&c=597+600+3082

Opus · Jun 22, 2018

Sonofives said:
I'm surprised no one has said blue-green sympodium. Not the invasive blue cloves (sansibia), but something entirely different. Mine are still acclimating so I haven't bothered to take a pic since they haven't opened yet. They have a red encrusting base, brilliant blue-green polyps, and when they are closed they have black and white stripes on the outside of the polyps. Easy to keep and not as much of a spreader as GSP but fast enough to get some nice coverage

Here's a liveaquaria link to them for reference: https://www.liveaquaria.com/product/3082/blue-sympodium-polyp?pcatid=3082&c=597+600+3082

I believe most people put it in the same category as star polyps and don't want it in their tanks. I personally like star polyps and remember when you used to see 3 or 4 different color varieties. The bright green ones became popular and you never really saw the other variations again.

cristata.reef · Jun 22, 2018

Opus said:
I believe most people put it in the same category as star polyps and don't want it in their tanks. I personally like star polyps and remember when you used to see 3 or 4 different color varieties. The bright green ones became popular and you never really saw the other variations again.

Yeah it's really a shame. These guys will not take over your tank unless you let them. I personally like star polyps as well and I'm planning on dedicating a small 10 gallon cube to different varieties of GSP, sansibia (blue cloves), sympodium, cloves, and knopia

Opus · Jun 22, 2018

Sonofives said:
Yeah it's really a shame. These guys will not take over your tank unless you let them. I personally like star polyps as well and I'm planning on dedicating a small 10 gallon cube to different varieties of GSP, sansibia (blue cloves), sympodium, cloves, and knopia

Where do you plan to find all these? Is liveaquaria the only option?

cristata.reef · Jun 22, 2018

Opus said:
Where do you plan to find all these? Is liveaquaria the only option?

One LFS near me has several types of clove polyps I plan to source the Knopia and two types of GSP (regular and long-tentacle metallic green) from them. Another LFS has the sympodium (where I already bought mine) and I'll try to get some sansibia from someone who needs it out of their tank. Standard cloves can be found anywhere lol

Rispa · Jun 22, 2018

I've got some sympodium. I'm hoping it starts to spread. I got it from Unique Corals.

Opus · Jun 22, 2018

Had to look up Knopia, I see daisy polyps around here sometimes. The one I'm after is true pom pom xenia. Never see it available. I found some outside of Chicago in the late 90's and really haven't seen any since.

Midrats · Jun 22, 2018

These corals are vastly more interesting than SPS. As Dieter would say, "SPS you bore me, we must dance."

Midrats · Jun 22, 2018

Opus said:
Had to look up Knopia, I see daisy polyps around here sometimes. The one I'm after is true pom pom xenia. Never see it available. I found some outside of Chicago in the late 90's and really haven't seen any since.

Watch out for Knopia, it's very invasive once it takes off.

catfishblues · Oct 12, 2018

Litterally made an account here to subscribe to this. Even if no one has any more replies I have a wish list now haha

JakeW · Oct 13, 2018

SAPPER said:
Some of my softies that I would say are not seen often near me.
1. Candelabra gorg 2. Black Sphaerella
3. Pink and orange Scleronephthea
4. Not too sure but I think its a Nephthea, bright green and the polyp tips are black.... possibly Palau. I want more colourful softies to fill big spaces, I have a good few colourful cool shrooms.

That purple coloring is beautiful