Ugliest corals

[Jared's Little Reef]

I think Soft corals get a bad reputation for being ugly due to a lot of them having muted colors or not being incandescent Neon colors. While it is true a lot of soft corals have muted colors a lot of them do not. Picture is WWC Rainbow Ricordea which is a pretty incredible looking soft coral.

 

[ScottR]

I’ve decided that my fish will dictate which corals I can keep, for me the fish are the main attraction to the hobby but I still love corals. I bet they destroy the pretty ones and leave my with a tank full of *****’s lol

My clowns have destroyed my euphyllia. I figured the corals cost more than them and I do like corals more so I keep a coral-first tank.

 

[ScottR]

I think Soft corals get a bad reputation for being ugly due to a lot of them having muted colors or not being incandescent Neon colors. While it is true a lot of soft corals have muted colors a lot of them do not. Picture is WWC Rainbow Ricordea which is a pretty incredible looking soft coral.

Good point. But I’ll say, there are hundreds of others that’d make my list based on coloration alone.

 

[lonelyfloat]

Some are pretty.. Some are huge colonies and they just look like a big piece of rubber..

Toadstools are the pretty ones IMO. They were the ones that got me attracted to reefing.

 

[lonelyfloat]

I think Soft corals get a bad reputation for being ugly due to a lot of them having muted colors or not being incandescent Neon colors. While it is true a lot of soft corals have muted colors a lot of them do not. Picture is WWC Rainbow Ricordea which is a pretty incredible looking soft coral.

I myself have a Rainbow Ricordia, no regrets.

 

[Jared's Little Reef]

I myself have a Rainbow Ricordia, no regrets.

Yeah, beautiful coral.
I think ugly corals come down to not properly selecting good soft corals at the beginning of your tank when we are all first start to learn about the hobby. It is just kinda a fact that in general LPS corals like favia and chalices will have insanely bright colors and nearly always outshine your first mushroom that you purchased on a whim.

But for my pick for ugliest coral would be the Brown Speckled mushroom

 

[lonelyfloat]

Yeah, beautiful coral.
I think ugly corals come down to not properly selecting good soft corals at the beginning of your tank when we are all first start to learn about the hobby. It is just kinda a fact that in general LPS corals like favia and chalices will have insanely bright colors and nearly always outshine your first mushroom that you purchased on a whim.

But for my pick for ugliest coral would be the Brown Speckled mushroom

Beautiful! Brown palys are ugliest IMO.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Yup. Not a fan of brown palys or brown/dull colored mushrooms

 

[Kremis]

"yellow polyps" not my favorite

 

[lonelyfloat]

"yellow polyps" not my favorite

Eww... I have to agree with you on that.

 

[Jared's Little Reef]

The yellow polyps look like they are half way to being dead polyps

 

[ZoWhat]

The Richard Simmons Chalice creeps me out

 

[argi]

I don't own it as I feel it is ugly, but the Snake Polyp Coral would be at the top of my list. But I do tend to agree there are no true "ugly" corals, just different shades of beauty.

 

[Mical]

I'm going to get flamed for this, but I find Zoas boring. In large colonies and grouped they're beautiful.

 

[Bleigh]

I'm not a big fan of how my kenya tree looks, but I think it adds some visual diversity, which is why I keep it.

 

[Bleigh]

Ohhh..... I think bubble mushrooms look kinda gross.... The first time I saw one was at a coral show and I recoiled because I thought the bubbles was remaining flesh and the other places was where it sloughed off. I think I asked something to the effect of where that was the coral version of leprosy.... God... the look on the sellers face! ;Hilarious ;Hilarious ;Hilarious ;Hilarious ;Hilarious;Hilarious;Hilarious;Hilarious Especially since he pulled it out thinking I would be oohing and ahhing over it. I can tell what's going on with them now, so I've come around a bit, but I don't think I'll ever get that initial reaction out of my head!

 

[Jared's Little Reef]

I don't own it as I feel it is ugly, but the Snake Polyp Coral would be at the top of my list. But I do tend to agree there are no true "ugly" corals, just different shades of beauty.

That really is a nasty looking coral, looks like some creepy worm thing.

 

[Ardeus]

All sps frags are ugly.

 

[GrantM91]

Brown palys and yellow polyps they were my fist coral, babied them and fed them blew sand off of them and they totally engulffed my first 16g lol

 

[Squidward]

Hairy mushrooms are ugly too.