PRICE MAPUPDATED JUL 2026

What named corals actually cost.

"What does that cost?" is the question every named coral dodges. A name like Homewrecker or Walt Disney isn't a price — it's a range, and a wide one. The same name can be a small frag at one shop and a grown-out colony at another in the same week, and neither number is wrong. So this is a map of what reefers actually pay for the named corals they chase right now, across the whole spread — zoas to acros, mushrooms to torches — and why the number you should trust is never a single number.

The price on each is live — the lowest in-stock listing across the vendors I check, pulled the moment the page opens, never a figure I set by hand. Stock comes and goes, so a name that isn't listed anywhere right now says exactly that instead of a dead number. There's wide ground between the cheapest and the dearest, so I've grouped them by roughly what they go for — cheapest first.

Where named corals start.

You don't need grail money to own a coral with a name and a story. The floor of the named market is zoas sold by the polyp and a few hardy starter pieces — recognizable lineages that happen not to have caught a four-figure fever.

Gorilla Nipple Zoa

A teal zoa with orange polyps, named for its distinctively raised, knobby shape.

Magician Zoanthid

A deep purple-red disc with a glittering teal center flecked in white — uncommon, but a fast grower.

Utter Chaos Zoanthid

A purple-based zoa swirled with yellow-green and skirted in orange — chaotic enough to earn the name.

JF Jack-O-Lantern Leptoseris

A Leptoseris with an orange base and green centers — one of Jason Fox's most-copied pieces, so the name gets around.

ORA Red Planet Acropora

A red tabling acro, aquacultured by ORA since 2006 and the canonical "Red Planet" — a name other growers use too, so check the prefix to see whose you're getting.

One note on the zoas: they're usually sold by the polyp rather than the whole frag, so a single head looks cheap next to an acro — but the colony it grows into is a different conversation. What the line under each shows is whatever that shop is asking for the piece it's actually listing, polyp count and all.

The middle, where most of them live.

Past the entry tier, most named corals settle into a band wide enough to drive you a little crazy. These are the signature acros, the one designer monti, the encrusting stylo, the chalice — the names that show up drop after drop, where the spread between a starter frag and a show colony is the whole story.

JF Burning Banana Stylocoeniella

A Jason Fox signature in Stylocoeniella, an encrusting SPS — not the acros and montis that usually get the designer names.

JF Slow Burn Monti

A green, fluorescence-heavy Montipora, one of the early Jason Fox top-ten.

JF Raja Rampage Chalice

Reef Builders called it perhaps Jason Fox's most iconic strain — chalice or otherwise — and ranked it number one on his 2014 signature top-ten. It's been fragged so widely in the years since that the piece that once anchored the list is now easy to come by.

TSA Fruity Pebbles Acropora

Purple-reddish body, orange corallite accents, green at the base — one of Top Shelf Aquatics' earliest acros. It's better known now as the mother colony: TSA's Kevin Burda found a neon-green sport growing in its center, cut and grafted it, and that piece became the Fruity Splice.

Tyree Pink Lemonade

A classic Tyree limited edition and one of the old-guard named acros — lime-green branches under pink polyps.

JF Foxflame

An incredibly bright pink acro tipped in yellow. Reef Builders ranked it ninth on Jason Fox's signature top-ten in 2014 and clocked it sharing a lot of color with the Ebeye Special out of Kwajalein Atoll.

The names that cost more than the tank.

At the top are the corals people build a tank around. A mother bounce mushroom can run more than the system it lives in, and a real Walt Disney is in stock rarely enough that the price almost doesn't matter — catching one at all is the hard part.

PC Rainbow Acropora

Red stag, orange inner, blue-rimmed tips — the acro that put rainbow morphs on the map. And it nearly got overlooked. Its keeper found it in the sand tearing down a tank in 2006 — colored up like never before.

JF Homewrecker

Jason Fox's tenuis — the one that kicked off the whole neon-rainbow-tenuis craze. Green base, blue-purple tips, neon-pink corallites. Sizable frags once cleared $2,500; it got copied so widely that the price came down, and the original's worth seeking out by maker.

BigR Walt Disney Acropora

Mike Biggar bought a plain green tenuis frag at a Florida swap and hardly looked at it. Two years of nothing, then it turned — pink corallites, blue tips over green. By 2015 a frag ran $800 to $1,000.

WWC Dragon Soul Torch

Gold-to-orange tentacles under yellow-green tips, and probably the most hunted of the Indo Gold torches. "Dragon Soul" isn't one grower's mark — World Wide Corals farms a strain, Tidal Gardens grows their own — so it's a shared trade name for a look that also turns up as Hellfire and 24k.

WWC Sunkist Bounce Mushroom

Fluorescent orange bubbles over a dark blue-green base, bobbing in the current — the vesicles are the whole appeal. World Wide Corals has grown the Sunkist out for more than a decade and files it under classic, not rare; a small frag still runs a few hundred.

WWC OG Bounce Mushroom

Raised bubbles, orange over green — the mushroom that started the bounce craze. World Wide Corals grew the original; a clean one still trades in the thousands. At the height of that craze, a single polyp ran $6,000.

The torch and the bounces tell you something the acros don't: the most expensive named corals aren't always acros. A single torch head or one bounce mushroom can outprice a colony of almost anything above, because rarity and how slowly the thing grows matter more than the genus.

Why one price tells you nothing.

Here's the part the listicles skip. A named coral's price isn't a fact you can look up — it's a moving target, and a single sticker is the least useful version of it.

The same name lists under slightly different prices at different shops in the same week. It swings with frag size, with how recently a shop fragged the mother, with whether two people who both "have to have it" happened to be online when it dropped. A low price might be a genuine break or might be a renamed nobody. The number only means something next to its history — what the name has actually gone for, across shops, over weeks.

That's what the price-history pages are for. Take JF Homewrecker, a name that swings hard from listing to listing — the history tells you whether today's number is a real deal or just an ordinary Tuesday. Same with Walt Disney: when it does turn up, the only way to know if the asking price is sane is to see where it's been.

So use the live numbers above as a gut-check on the name, not as a target. If you're trying to actually win one of these when it drops, how to find and buy rare corals covers the part that comes after you know the price. And if it's the chase acros you're after, the most-hunted acros of 2026 is the narrower list.

What I'm not pricing yet.

This map covers the named corals I track right now — it's deliberately a cross-section, not the whole hobby. There are whole categories I haven't seeded yet: more torches, the deep chalice world, the named-morph zoa rabbit hole that runs from pocket change to four figures.

If there's a named coral you want to see priced here — or one you're hunting that I'm not tracking — tell me. I add the ones people actually chase, not whatever an algorithm decides is hot this week.