美国礁石水族馆的爱好一直在寻找最新，最大的新珊瑚菌株，以增长和夸大。像The一样非常熟悉的珊瑚的菌株Homewrecker Acro和Kun Pao Montimay turn some heads and have the potential to be propagated and shared, but there’s a wholeworldof unknown corals that are even more ‘exclusive’.
We’re talking of course of the nonphotosynthetic stony corals, most often referred to as Azoox corals. Most aquarium reefers are fairly familiar with the图巴斯特里亚sun corals and the more readily available larger polyped树突叶。But there are so many more species yet to be discovered by the aquarium hobby at large.
These corals include a very wide range of species from large solitaryRhizotrochusto the small and colonialArcohelia。你会hard pressed to find任何of these corals at once, but with an ear to the ground it’s possible to come across a few pieces periodically. The best place we’ve found to admire most of these Azoox corals is usually whilediving in caves and overhangswhere a wide variety of weird corals can be seen.
But thankfully, over the last ten years we’ve been lucky to write about and encounter a nice handful of these corals in the hobby. So if Azoox reef tanks ever take off this is what a population of these carnivorous corals would look like and we can only hope that one day the ‘dark side’ of corals can get a chance to come into the light.
eguchipsampiaat Extreme Corals DE is the first Micro Dendro we’ve seen in a couple years
Truncatoflabellum veroni, this unseen azoox coral makes reef aquarium debut
Hanapapa’s NPS stony corals are a dream for azoox coral lovers
Schizoculina fissipara precedes a wave of fresh new corals coming soon from Sao Tome, West Africa
Colangia, Culicia and Astrangia are the latest new Azoox corals to come from West Africa
