Coral pricing spans 3 tiers + a designer market that exceeds the rest. Beginner softies ($10-30 per frag): green star polyps, kenya tree, leather coral, common zoanthids (rasta, fire and ice, eagle eye), mushrooms (rhodactis, ricordea florida), pulsing xenia. Intermediate LPS ($30-150 per head): hammer (Euphyllia ancora), frogspawn (E. paradivisa), torch (E. glabrescens), candy cane (Caulastrea), favia, blastomussa, duncan, acan, chalice (small frags). Advanced SPS ($40-200 per 1-2" frag): wild acropora, montipora (capricornis, danae, digitata), stylophora, pocillopora, birdsnest. Designer / named morph tier ($150-3,000+): WWC Bounce mushroom $1,500+, Walt Disney acro $300-800/frag, Jason Fox Homewrecker chalice $200-600, Ultra Goniopora $250-1,500, Bling Bling pavona $400+. Aquaculture vs wild: aquacultured corals (ORA, Tidal Gardens, Battle Corals, ACI, Vivid) typically priced 1.5-3x wild equivalents but adapted to home aquarium parameters. Higher survival rate. Frag vs colony: a 1-2" frag = base price. A 4-6" colony = 5-15x the frag price. Browse live coral listings on Fast Aquatics for current vendor pricing across all tiers, with carrier-tracked shipping + DOA guarantee.
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