PRICE MAP · UPDATED 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.

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.

Strawberry Shortcake is the cautionary one here. The name got so popular that several different corals now wear it, grown by different shops, and the price reflects the grower as much as the coral. A cheap "Strawberry Shortcake" might be a real deal or might be a frag that has no business carrying the name — which is exactly the kind of gap a price on its own can't close.

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.

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.

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