Echinophyllia, a chalice. Intermediate to keep, Typical PAR 50–120, low to moderate flow.
Rarity tier: uncommon, reviewed 2026-08.
Bright PINK body with green corallites and a green trim around the growing edge, which is the whole metaphor: pink flesh, green rind. Some blue often sits in the background.
A descriptive name rather than a lineage, so several unrelated chalices carry it, and the named variants run both ways round: Jayda's is pink with a green mouth, Bubblegum is green with a pink mouth. Judge the actual piece. Note the direction especially against a Mummy Eye, which is the reverse arrangement and was originally sold as a reverse watermelon; this entry had the two describing the same coral until it was checked.
Low light and gentle flow, where nothing can sweep it. Watermelon Chalice 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.
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 $74 per frag, median $60, across 12 shops surveyed on 2026-09-07; the full sweep ran $25 to $130. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-09-07 it was in stock at 12 surveyed shops: aqua-vault.com, barrierreefaquariums.com, cherrycorals.com, coralscoral.com, coralstop.com, discountcoral.com, and 6 more.