Coral

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. From new species of corals that are we’ve yet to see because they’ve just been discovered and described to new collecting locations for familiar species, the abundance of new corals just goes to show that there us still a lot of excitement left for coral aquarists. Let’s see which ten corals really got a lot of discussions going in 2011.

#10 Orange dimpled chalice Leptoseris coral

#9 Turbinaria heronensis with extremely long tubular corallites

#8 Orange frogspawn coral from Vietnam

# 7 Awesome color Discosoma from Vietnam and Australia

Discosoma mushroom anemones from Vietnam

Discosoma mushroom anemones from Australia

#6 Mutant Acropora hybrids living in Miami River

Acropora prolifera is a hybrid of Caribbean elkhorn and staghorn corals

#5 Orange branching Psammocora

#4 New colors of Micromussa amakusensis from Darwin Australia

Micromussa amakusensis from Darwin Australia have an incredible range of coloration

#3 Bali maricultured deepwater Acros

巴厘岛maricultured Acropora include ‘Deepwater Acro’ species such as this A. speciosa

#2 Branching Favites complanata from Darwin Australia

#1 New species of Astreopora described from West Papua

Branching Astreopora acroporina from West Papua

Jake Adams

Jake Adams has been an avid marine aquarist since the mid 90s and has worked in the retail side of the marine aquarium trade for more than ten years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and has been the managing editor of ReefBuilders.com since 2008. Jake is interested in every facet of the marine aquarium hobby from the concepts to the technology, rare fish to exotic corals, and his interests are well documented through a very prolific career of speaking to reef clubs and marine aquarium events, and writing articles for aquarium publications across the globe. His primary interest is in corals which Jake pursues in the aquarium hobby as well as diving the coral reefs of the world.