Rare Corals/Corals Absent from the Hobby

My unicorns are a true lemon drop anemone and a red torch coral. I’d set up a whole separate system for something like this:

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what the heck...

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Not at all, there were several conversations about these years ago and videos about them from the guys who tried to imitate both of these and the original importers of them stepped in to level the playing field, but, whatever makes you sleep better at night, go for it.
Yea and they are faked with color swapping. You can tell from the image they are way over saturated.
I took a look at the original video of the red torch, and, most of the skeleton looks normal colored, but for the life of me I can’t figure out what that red splotch on the skeleton is.
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over saturation making things come up that aren’t there.
This is a dead giveaway it’s fake
 
Are there any corals either seldom found or nonexistent in the hobby that you wish you could keep or were more common in the hobby?

I'm keeping one rule on this thread that the corals have to realistically be able to enter into the hobby, so no Caribbean, Western Indian Ocean, temperate, or deepwater corals

I'll start:
Currently, virtually all Leptoseris in the hobby are of one species: L. mycetoseroides. I would love to see other Leptoseris species be imported--maybe something like L. papyracea/gardineri, or L. explanata/scabra.
Leptoseris gardineri; North Sulawesi, Indonesia | Credit: Ingo Rogalla
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Leptoseris scabra; Funafuti, Tuvalu | Credit: Debra Baker
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Over this side we can’t get coral direct from Australia unless it’s brought in through Indonesia so I guess almost every coral that is Aussie.
 
Jason Fox sold me a Green Oophyllia at RAPNY. Not stunning but different and flowy. Tentacles only come out at night
 

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Ask @VintageReefer about his experience getting in these crazy colored euphyllia….. it’s a whole story and I bet its exactly what’s happening here. Camera tricks and filters
Almost looks like the same video(going off memory) , just red instead of orange. Seems like the same motion of how he picks it up and wiggles it around while rotating..
 
I took a look at the original video of the red torch, and, most of the skeleton looks normal colored, but for the life of me I can’t figure out what that red splotch on the skeleton is.
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Most likely bone white skeleton. The blue around it is flesh.
So it seems to me anyway.
 
Ask @VintageReefer about his experience getting in these crazy colored euphyllia….. it’s a whole story and I bet its exactly what’s happening here. Camera tricks and filters
They are fake and the way I spot it now is the light blue background. I have seen videos of orange torch from different vendors and they edit the same way. Well. I actually think it’s recorded this way And the settings on the camera are drastically askew.

On my tv I can mess with tint and saturation and make skin tone and cartoons all reddish or all green. It’s like that. The color settings are altered and it’s recorded that way. Then the vendor argues “it’s not edited video”

Yea. Technically they didn’t record the video then edit it. They just recorded with what most would call completely screwed up settings to use in their benefit.
 
Video worked for me. I think it's an android thing.
Here a screen shot.

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It’s a mobile browser thing. Typically people can’t see attached videos on mobile devices. What are you using I’ll try it
 
Really? I didn't know that.
Edit: wait, you're from England
Yep! Im in the south of the UK. We can’t get any direct Aussie Coral so people do lean away from the Aussie grown Indo Coral.
But I’d love some of the Aussie Elegance, Aussie Bubble Coral - Physogyra litchensteini, and Aussie Gold torches - although the Indo Golds are now coming in as vibrant as Aussies are.
My Warpaint Elegance;
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i can’t think of any corals but i have been looking for a couple of fish i haven’t seen in ages, the Catalina Goby and the Tiger Catalina Goby
They're "coldwater" species and known not to do well in our tropical reefs, so they're not very common anymore, but Matsu Collections says they offer both (Lythrypnus dalli and Lythrypnus zebra).
 

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