Discosoma, a mushroom. Beginner to keep, Typical PAR 40–90, low flow.
Also sold as Jawbreaker Mushroom, JB.
Rarity tier: ultra, reviewed 2026-08.
Names that contain “Jawbreaker” and are not this coral: Candy Crush, Kryptonite. They are separate corals traded at their own prices, so read the animal rather than the label.
Bright orange ground with red streaking and speckling through it, plus green and sometimes purple as a polyp matures, marbled with no repeating pattern. The surface is visibly bumpier than an ordinary smooth Discosoma, and that texture plus the orange ground is the identification.
Every Jawbreaker is patterned differently, so a 'matching photo' proves nothing. Provenance is the whole purchase: buy the specific animal you were shown, WYSIWYG.
Low light and low flow, on the sand or a shaded ledge. Jawbreaker is beginner to keep at a typical PAR of 40–90 in low 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 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 $173 to $227 each, median $190, across 20 shops surveyed on 2026-09-07; the full sweep ran $50 to $450. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-09-07 it was in stock at 20 surveyed shops: aqua-vault.com, barrierreefaquariums.com, cherrycorals.com, coralsanonymous.com, coralstop.com, gemstatecorals.com, and 14 more.