JF Freak Hair Pavona

Think of the JF Freak Hair Pavona as the reef’s punk-rock stylist — a low, broad encruster with a wild neon hairdo. At rest it’s a magenta-to-purple carpet of stony tissue; when the little hair-like polyps flare you get bright splash of  yellow/orange that look like a tiny, furious mohawk waving in the current. It’s one of those corals that makes you double-take: from a distance its texture and color, up close it’s a tiny riot of fuzzy tentacles and sculpted skeleton.

If you want something that actually moves the eye rather than politely existing, Freak Hair delivers. It spreads and textures rock fast, and polyp action give your aquascape a lively, ever-changing patch of neon fuzz.