Dragon Soul Favia
Favites, an LPS coral. Beginner to keep, typical PAR 80–150, moderate flow.
A loose trade name. Sellers use it loosely, so trust the photo over the label.
Collector tier: uncommon, where the trade ranks it from common through grail. In stock at 23 surveyed shops on 2026-10-19.
An Australian brain-type coral sold as a Favia, though the one writer to look at its genus calls it likely a Favites of no settled species. Its look is three zones: a bright green centre to each corallite, a dark purple inner ring, and red on the upper ridges, with a bright green edge where the colony is growing. It reached the US trade from Australia in 2007, and the more colourful form is said to come from the shallow Great Barrier Reef.
Before you buy one
Look for the purple ring. Green centres in red is the War Coral pattern; a Dragon Soul puts a dark purple ring between the green and the red ridge, and the farm that first sold it says the red varies with the coral's health. A few shops describe orange, gold or yellow mouths instead, and one seller admitted the name was just what he was given, so judge the colours over the label. The first farm's line was retired in 2010 because it did not recover well from fragmentation; today's pieces come from the many colonies imported since.
Keeping LPS of this kind
Sandbed or low rock with room around it, and it takes food. Dragon Soul Favia is beginner to keep at a typical PAR of 80–150 in moderate flow. A typical starting range for this type of coral, not measured on this one.
Full care notes for LPS of this kind
What Dragon Soul Favia goes for
No verified sales yet. A range publishes once 3 dated, checkable records from 3 different sources exist, priced per frag and reported as a median, with what shops ask kept separate from what buyers paid. One frag is a single cut on a plug, whatever its exact size. Colonies, mini colonies and mother stock are excluded rather than averaged in. Nothing on this page is for sale. Shops are typically asking $25 to $52 per frag, median $38, across 23 shops surveyed on 2026-10-19; the full sweep ran $16 to $100. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-10-19 it was in stock at 23 surveyed shops: barrierreefaquariums.com, bluewaterreefaquatics.com, cherrycorals.com, coralexplorers.com, coralsanonymous.com, coralscoral.com, and 17 more.
Easily confused with
- War Coral: A red body and lime-green discs with no dark purple ring between them, where a Dragon Soul's green centre sits inside a purple ring under red ridges.