Caulastraea furcata, a other lps. Beginner to keep, Typical PAR 75–150, moderate flow.
Also sold as Kryptonite Trumpet, Kryptonite Caulastrea, Kryptonite Candy Cane Coral.
Rarity tier: common, reviewed 2026-08.
A branching LPS, Caulastraea furcata, in the family Merulinidae: each polyp sits on its own tubular stalk with a star-shaped corallite at the tip, and the colony is a bundle of those stalks. The species runs green, yellow or greenish brown; Kryptonite is the strain in a flat, intense neon green that reads almost white-green under blues, usually without the contrasting centre the striped and blue-eyed candy canes carry. Polyps are large for the group and puff well past the skeleton by day.
Colour, and only colour, because the skeleton is the same as every other candy cane: one polyp per stalk, stalks splitting in two as the polyp divides. A Kryptonite is uniform green edge to centre; a Neon Green or Blue Eye Candy Cane has a differently coloured mouth or a lighter ring, and a plain green candy cane is duller and often browner. Under white light the difference can vanish, so judge it under blues. Stalk count is what you are paying for, and vendors state it, which is why this morph publishes per head.
Middle rock with room around it, and it takes food. Kryptonite Candy Cane is beginner 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.
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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 $14 to $25 per head, median $15, across 7 shops surveyed on 2026-09-07; the full sweep ran $8 to $40. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-09-07 it was in stock at 7 surveyed shops: coralsanonymous.com, ijamcoral.com, reefloungecoral.com, reefsystems.com, staubaquafarm.com, topshelfaquatics.com, and 1 more.