在过去的几周中，我们一直在窗户购物珊瑚的供应，只是为了盘点大多数供应商的销售，我们已经有了一些想法。首先，我们了解迫使珊瑚价格从未见过的高度的具有挑战性的物流，但其次，我们不认为珊瑚购买者或供应商知道实际上是“罕见”的珊瑚。
So many of these vendors label almost every single coral as rare, ultra rare, mega ultra rare, but they’re not really making a strong case when each vendor has a dozen of the same coral listed as稀有的。There is a huge difference between corals that in such supply relative to the demand, such as many阿斯胸and high end Scolies, and corals that are legitimately, objectively rare both in the wild and in the aquarium hobby.
一个始终处于我们最稀有珊瑚清单顶部的珊瑚是Cantharellus，一种菌根属，通常像Lithophyllon但是更大。Cantharellus有时被发现作为单一密集的圆形冠状石，但我们遇到的几次在潜水时遇到了它们，它们几乎没有殖民地，那里有一个大的中央珊瑚岩，边缘周围只有少数较小的珊瑚岩。
All theCantharelluswe’ve encountered in the wild were a dull shade of grey, maybe with a hint of imaginary green, interesting to see and photograph but certainly nothing to write home about. However when we infrequently see these in the aquarium market they have usually been either a small hitchhiker on the side of a coral base or mushroom rock, but when they are collected on purpose it’s usually a very nice shade of neon orange, much like we come to expect in the related环球体圆盘珊瑚。
我们有合法的人只看到橙色Cantharellus在水族馆市场上，水族馆世界中的殖民地不超过10倍，其中一半的经验是斐济或印度尼西亚的主要出口商！当我们看到这些待售时，它们总是被错误地标记为Lithophyllon，在我们的书中足够近，但是已经很久了，以至于我们没有出现独特的Cantharellus自2015年以来的珊瑚属。
Finally after weeks of searching for something different we were finally rewarded with an ‘orangeLithophyllon在Corals.com上的挂牌出售,不能去rough the online checkout fast enough. Interestingly this coral was described as originating from Australia so it will make a great and wonderful addition to the Scolymia Party Australian reef wall display which is the kind of dim light, cool temperature, & calm flow that we usually find these corals in.
不幸的是，与快速增长相反Lithophyllonand环球体corals in the aquarium world, the cryptic nature and dense, heavy skeleton ofCantharellus所有这些都将排除其长大和繁殖的潜力。尽管如此，有些珊瑚比分享更多的是享受，我们将尽力做到这一点稀有的真菌珊瑚是我们知道如何的最佳护理，因此我们可以继续充实澳大利亚礁石墙的展示。
