Toadstool Leather Coral
Sarcophyton, a soft coral. Beginner to keep, typical PAR 50–150, moderate flow.
Also sold as Toadstool Leather.
A species, not a named morph. It names the animal, not one line of it.
Collector tier: common, where the trade ranks it from common through grail. In stock at 19 surveyed shops on 2026-10-19.
A leather coral built as a single thick stalk topped by a broad cap, the capitulum, with the polyps emerging from the cap and giving it a fuzzy outline when they are out. The mushroom shape is a young one's: as it matures the cap goes wavy and convoluted and stops looking much like a toadstool.
Before you buy one
Sheds a waxy film periodically and looks like it is dying while it does. That is normal, and it is how the coral sloughs algae and detritus. It can run from a few days to over a week. DO NOT PEEL THE FILM OFF, which damages the tissue underneath; raising flow helps it lift on its own.
Keeping soft corals
Forgiving of most placements, and it moves water on its own. Toadstool Leather Coral is beginner to keep at a typical PAR of 50–150 in moderate flow. A typical starting range for this type of coral, not measured on this one.
Full care notes for soft corals
What Toadstool Leather Coral 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 $63 to $117 per frag, median $100, across 19 shops surveyed on 2026-10-19; the full sweep ran $10 to $179. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-10-19 it was in stock at 19 surveyed shops: austinaquafarms.com, barrierreefaquariums.com, bluewaterreefaquatics.com, coralsanonymous.com, discountcoral.com, ghicorals.com, and 13 more.