Top 10 smooth skin SPS must have

[therman]

Here's one I'm posting posthumously....lost it all a couple of months ago after 2-3 years of growth. I suspect nobody else has it still, but who knows. Was very unique.

I bought it as Vivid's Kiwi Strawberry, really uniquely colored Suharsonoi type deepwater. All pieces of it peeled within a week or two of each other in both systems. Had a coloration like DFS Pink Panther with seafoam green undertones on every branch:

 

[spsick]

Here's one I'm posting posthumously....lost it all a couple of months ago after 2-3 years of growth. I suspect nobody else has it still, but who knows. Was very unique.

I bought it as Vivid's Kiwi Strawberry, really uniquely colored Suharsonoi type deepwater. All pieces of it peeled within a week or two of each other in both systems. Had a coloration like DFS Pink Panther with seafoam green undertones on every branch:

That’s awesome and bummer. But what about your other top 9??

 

[therman]

Unranked, legendary smoothies that I am actually able to grow. I do not consider most bottlebrush Acropora to be smoothies, so they are mostly excluded:

RRC Jawdropper
Reefgen Blueberry Fantasy
BC Skinny Love
BC Joker 1.0
BC Cricket Spine
BC Set for Stun
CRT/Hung's Rainbow Explosion/EC Valentina
Sublime Granulosa
Ari's Avalanche
JF Fantasy Island
JF Fox Flame
Swearwolf


Some contenders I haven't gotten big enough to list but look to have very serious potential:
TUSI granulosa
BKChem Crack Juice
BC Wicked Witch of the Midwest (anyone have a colony photo of this??? @Battlecorals )

Excellent runners up which every smoothie lover should have:
Peng's Cherry Tip granulosa
WWC Purple Candle
TSA Goody Two Shoes
RR Olympus
Reefnation Purple Turaki
Tyree Purple Dragon Eyes
BKChem Creme de le Creme
Spectral granulosa (another one I haven't really started pushing)
any suharsonoi

Jerk corals that always die that I have booted from my list. I feel the appeal of the first two are mainly in their scarcity/history, rather than exceptional appearance:
Tyree Purple Monster
DFS Pink Panther
BC Angelica
10k and 20k lokanis


I have several more chugging along that I am sure haven't hit their full potential so I can't judge whether they will earn LEGENDARY status

 

[spsick]

Unranked, legendary smoothies that I am actually able to grow. I do not consider most bottlebrush Acropora to be smoothies, so they are mostly excluded:

RRC Jawdropper
Reefgen Blueberry Fantasy
BC Skinny Love
BC Joker 1.0
BC Cricket Spine
BC Set for Stun
CRT/Hung's Rainbow Explosion/EC Valentina
Sublime Granulosa
Ari's Avalanche
JF Fantasy Island
JF Fox Flame
Swearwolf


Some contenders I haven't gotten big enough to list but look to have very serious potential:
TUSI granulosa
BKChem Crack Juice
BC Wicked Witch of the Midwest (anyone have a colony photo of this??? @Battlecorals )

Excellent runners up which every smoothie lover should have:
Peng's Cherry Tip granulosa
WWC Purple Candle
TSA Goody Two Shoes
RR Olympus
Reefnation Purple Turaki
Tyree Purple Dragon Eyes
BKChem Creme de le Creme
Spectral granulosa (another one I haven't really started pushing)
any suharsonoi

Jerk corals that always die that I have booted from my list. I feel the appeal of the first two are mainly in their scarcity/history, rather than exceptional appearance:
Tyree Purple Monster
DFS Pink Panther
BC Angelica
10k and 20k lokanis


I have several more chugging along that I am sure haven't hit their full potential so I can't judge whether they will earn LEGENDARY status

Excellent list Tim! lol @ the jerk coral list.

 

[adsf430]

I have seen it, and it's sick!!!
I have a feeling that Therman's Sublime Granulosa might be one of the nicest out there, for Granulosa that is. It took serious persuasion to get him to cut it, lol.

colony pic!

 

[adsf430]

100% agree on Cricket Spine, Skinny Love, and the original BC Joker.

I have never seen anyone grow out a big colony of Angelica and have been frustrated so many times by it that it no longer makes my list.

@RussiReef has one, he graciously sent me a frag : )

 

[Perry]

colony pic!

Post #55
Tim, aka therman, posted the colony. I am happy to have scored a piece, pictured here

 

[adsf430]

These are nothing compared to Tim’s since they’re just frags (some from him) but here’s my list I own (which I stole from Tim and Ty)
Hungs Rainbow and Angelica (from Tim and Russi)

Tim’s Swearwolf

RRC JD (From Tim)

TUSI’s Rainbow (undeniably a top 5 for me, don’t have an update pic but it’s much bigger) now.

CRT Red Riding Hood (had a BC Cricket Spine that didn’t survive shipping and only didn’t replace it because these are very similar, I prefer this one, it has an amazing blue hue hard to capture on camera)

No name speciosa (does this count?)

 

[coral reeftank]

These are nothing compared to Tim’s since they’re just frags (some from him) but here’s my list I own (which I stole from Tim and Ty)
Hungs Rainbow and Angelica (from Tim and Russi)

Tim’s Swearwolf

RRC JD (From Tim)

TUSI’s Rainbow (undeniably a top 5 for me, don’t have an update pic but it’s much bigger) now.

CRT Red Riding Hood (had a BC Cricket Spine that didn’t survive shipping and only didn’t replace it because these are very similar, I prefer this one, it has an amazing blue hue hard to capture on camera)

No name speciosa (does this count?)

Red Riding Hood was also one of my favs, the deep magenta and blue it develops and gnarly!

 

[RussiReef]

BC Angelica. Picture was taken in 2020. Colony is much larger now

 

[Rams]

BC Angelica. Picture was taken in 2020. Colony is much larger now

Insane

 

[Rams]

Unranked, legendary smoothies that I am actually able to grow. I do not consider most bottlebrush Acropora to be smoothies, so they are mostly excluded:

RRC Jawdropper
Reefgen Blueberry Fantasy
BC Skinny Love
BC Joker 1.0
BC Cricket Spine
BC Set for Stun
CRT/Hung's Rainbow Explosion/EC Valentina
Sublime Granulosa
Ari's Avalanche
JF Fantasy Island
JF Fox Flame
Swearwolf


Some contenders I haven't gotten big enough to list but look to have very serious potential:
TUSI granulosa
BKChem Crack Juice
BC Wicked Witch of the Midwest (anyone have a colony photo of this??? @Battlecorals )

Excellent runners up which every smoothie lover should have:
Peng's Cherry Tip granulosa
WWC Purple Candle
TSA Goody Two Shoes
RR Olympus
Reefnation Purple Turaki
Tyree Purple Dragon Eyes
BKChem Creme de le Creme
Spectral granulosa (another one I haven't really started pushing)
any suharsonoi

Jerk corals that always die that I have booted from my list. I feel the appeal of the first two are mainly in their scarcity/history, rather than exceptional appearance:
Tyree Purple Monster
DFS Pink Panther
BC Angelica
10k and 20k lokanis


I have several more chugging along that I am sure haven't hit their full potential so I can't judge whether they will earn LEGENDARY status

Excellent list @therman

 

[rossco]

My favorite of all time is Purple Monster. Had it before, don’t have it now, but do have this one, which is close enough.

How’s the old song go? “If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with”

edited with a picture taken with my DSLR vs an oversaturated one from my phone

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

My favorite of all time is Purple Monster. Had it before, don’t have it now, but do have this one, which is close enough.

How’s the old song go? “If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with”

I do that on the daily. Lol

 

[Perry]

@Rams
The garden you speak of, only way to capture was a side shot

 

[Rams]

@Rams
The garden you speak of, only way to capture was a side shot

As always beautiful @Perry

 

[Perry]

As always beautiful @Perry

Thank you!
Always a work in progress

 

[BirdFish5000]

As always beautiful @Perry

Yes, Perry is beautiful

 

[Perry]

Yes, Perry is beautiful

Well thank you, lol

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

@Perry Got lucky. B here wed kaiju speciosa from poto