Who needs rics when you can have this
 

Cool, what is it?

THAT'S NICE JOE :shocked!:

mmm chalice.. 12 varities and counting.

It was sold as Echinopora at the store but I think its actually Echinophyllia.

they're all...so ugly?! :drinking: I think I missed the boat for this new LPS fad

There is some nice specimens in that thread.

ugly? hmm, never heard that before from someone descibing chalice. more for the rest of us i guess.

monster mash will be mine one day, oh yes! :twised:

I can see what Invigor is saying. I like the look of them up on the rocks,
But i dont like the look of them on the sand bed so much.

They don't quite do it for me either. The good thing of course is that when these coral prices go up, the others become less popular and the prices for the other corals that I like (such as Monti Caps) hopefully goes down. :lol:

to me, they just look like something you'd get cuz you can't find something to put in that spot, and you're sick of looking at purple coraline on the live rock..

I enjoy these corals a lot too!
Heres a neat hot pink/red piece of "space filler" coral :P
http://www.auphanonline.com:8080/gal...0712_432_5.jpg

Kinda like.. "I have nothing to wear..."

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/...44129_2911.JPG

http://www.ultimatefrags.com/images/...%20chalice.jpg

http://www.atlantisaquarium.net/images/chalalien2.jpg

Yeah, that looks like crap... You should just store those space fillers in my tank.

http://jendub.com/images/DSCN0099_(Custom).jpg

http://www.exoticreefs.us/repository...halice-001.jpg

Nice alien eye 0X:

Some of the pics in this and the RC thread are truly stunning. However, how often does one get that close to their tanks to appreciate these probably very expensive animals in such an intimate manner?

I kinda got on the zoo bandwagon fad for awhile. But in the end, unless the zoos were truly spectalar, they were just more small polyped corals.

Since selling all my zoos, I haven't gone goo-goo eyed for any particular family of corals. Well, maybe my BTAs could fit that bill, but there are only so many BTAs a person can keep in a 37g and a 67g and still have other corals to enjoy.

The arguement that chalices are too plain/boring or too expensive could be argued for any coral. Zoos, SPS alike... All have common plain brown specimens but can also be found with amazing and vibrant color morphs.

The point I'm trying to make is that this isn't a boring coral. In fact it is often overlooked. These corals are out there, but it's a matter of being the person who acknowledges their value and takes them home.