Elegance Coral
Catalaphyllia jardinei, an LPS coral. Intermediate to keep, typical PAR 75–150, low to moderate flow.
A species, not a named morph. It names the animal, not one line of it.
Collector tier: uncommon, where the trade ranks it from common through grail. In stock at 13 surveyed shops on 2026-10-19.
Long flowing tubular tentacles with contrasting tips, rising from a large fleshy STRIPED oral disc on a single conical skeleton. Colour varies widely: green or brown discs with blue, purple, orange, cream or pink-tipped tentacles are all normal.
Before you buy one
Indonesian specimens carried a well-documented wasting problem for years; Australian ones fared better. Origin is a real question to ask here. The condition has a name, Elegance Coral Syndrome, its cause and cure are still unknown, and it spreads between Catalaphyllia, so quarantine rather than adding one straight to a display. What to look for before buying: a swollen oral disc, polyps that will not expand, a white opaque mucus coating, and tentacles that no longer grip food.
Keeping LPS of this kind
Sandbed or low rock with room around it, and it takes food. Elegance Coral is intermediate to keep at a typical PAR of 75–150 in low to 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 Elegance Coral goes for
No verified sales yet. A range publishes once 3 dated, checkable records from 3 different sources exist, priced each and reported as a median, with what shops ask kept separate from what buyers paid. One animal. These corals are single polyps and are never sold in parts. Nothing on this page is for sale. Shops are typically asking $120 to $180 each, median $150, across 13 shops surveyed on 2026-10-19; the full sweep ran $64 to $350. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-10-19 it was in stock at 13 surveyed shops: austinaquafarms.com, coralexplorers.com, coralstop.com, holygrailcorals.com, liveaquaria.com, luckycorals.com, and 7 more.