Euphyllia glabrescens. Intermediate to keep, Typical PAR 75–150, moderate flow.
Also sold as Dragon Soul, DS Torch.
Rarity tier: ultra, reviewed 2026-08.
Deep purple to midnight stems, electric gold tentacles, and bright neon green tips. The green tip against the gold is the trait, and it is what separates this from the gold torches it gets sold beside.
Tip colour on torches shifts with lighting and can be faked in a photo with the right blues. A settled head under mixed light is the only honest look. Be especially wary of a listing showing orange or red tips: that is a different torch. And hold the name loosely. Indonesian gold torches were split into Dragon Soul, Hellfire, Indo Gold and others by the people selling them rather than by anyone describing them, the names are applied differently from exporter to exporter, and at least one vendor lists a single coral as a 'Dragon Soul/Hellfire'. Lineage from a seller who will name it is worth more than the label.
Space to sweep, because the tentacles reach further than they look. Dragon Soul Torch is intermediate to keep at a typical PAR of 75–150 in moderate flow. A typical starting range for this type of coral rather than a measured requirement for this morph. Spectrum, how it was acclimated and the system it grew in all move it.
No verified sales yet. A range publishes once 3 dated, checkable records from 3 different sources exist, priced per head and reported as a median, with what shops ask kept separate from what buyers paid. One head is one polyp of a branching LPS. A five-head piece is divided by five before it is compared to anything. Nothing on this page is for sale. Shops are typically asking $81 to $124 per head, median $105, across 14 shops surveyed on 2026-09-07; the full sweep ran $75 to $175. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-09-07 it was in stock at 14 surveyed shops: barrierreefaquariums.com, cashdoutcorals.com, coralsanonymous.com, coralstop.com, cornbredcorals.com, discountcoral.com, and 8 more.