Mummy Eye
Echinophyllia, a chalice. Intermediate to keep, Typical PAR 50–120, low to moderate flow.
Rarity tier: uncommon, reviewed 2026-08.
Deep green heavily tissued body with piercing orange-red eyes, one of the longest-circulating named chalices. Introduced as the Oregon Mummy Eye and described at the time as a reverse watermelon, which is still the quickest way to place it: green body, warm eyes, the other way round from a Watermelon.
How to tell it is the real thing
Widely propagated, so pay for eye count and tissue health rather than for the name. Semi-aggressive and puts out sweeper tentacles at night, so leave it room.
Keeping chalices
Low light and gentle flow, where nothing can sweep it. Mummy Eye is intermediate to keep at a typical PAR of 50–120 in low to 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.
What Mummy Eye 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 $40 to $56 per frag, median $45, across 20 shops surveyed on 2026-09-07; the full sweep ran $12 to $75. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-09-07 it was in stock at 20 surveyed shops: barrierreefaquariums.com, cherrycorals.com, coralexplorers.com, coralsofeden.com, cornbredcorals.com, discountcoral.com, and 14 more.