Gold Fungia (Aussie)
A variant of Plate coral (Fungia sp.)
Representative Plate coralphoto — a dedicated image of this exact morph isn't available yet.
A solid golden-yellow to chartreuse plate, sometimes with long flowing tentacles, glowing yellow-green under actinics. The clean single gold tone distinguishes it from common green plates.
📜 Backstory
Gold/yellow Fungia are wild-collected Australian pieces graded by importers for the cleanest yellow saturation. 'Gold' here is a color grade, not a cultivar name, and there is no documented mother colony. The yellow pigment is relatively uncommon in plates, so solid-gold specimens carry a modest premium over green. (Note: this is a Fungia plate coral — unrelated to the Euphyllia 'Torch' despite older listings that conflated the two names.)
Keeper tips for this variant
Sandbed, low flow, moderate light; long-tentacle ('hairy') plate forms benefit from spot-feeding meaty foods to fuel the fuller polyp.