Coral
Porites — What's a Fair Price?
Based on 8 in-stock listings across 3 online reef vendors, updated September 5, 2026.
A typical Porites sells for around $23.20 right now. Anything near $14.99 is at the cheap end of today's market. Prices below are the cheapest current listing per vendor.
Cheapest per vendor
| Vendor | Listing | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reef Chasers | RC Screamin Demon Porites | $14.99 | view → |
| World Wide Corals | Darth Maul Porites | $23.20 | view → |
| Top Shelf Aquatics | Darth Maul Porites Coral | $24.99 | view → |
Shipping differs by vendor (free-shipping thresholds, flat overnight rates) and can change which vendor is cheapest to your door.
Reading today's numbers
Today's 8 in-stock listings span $14.99 to $39.99 — the high end is 2.7× the low. That kind of gap is normal for corals: this row groups every listing of the type at genus level, so a small frag of a common color morph and a high-grade named strain or larger colony land in the same range. The $23.20 median is the fairest single benchmark: half of those listings sit at or below it.
Keeping it alive once it arrives
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Stable water chemistry does more for a newly added coral than anything else — salinity, alkalinity and calcium held steady while it settles in and colors up. Chewy — a general pet retailer that sells no live coral or marine fish, and is not one of the vendors this index tracks — carries reef salt mixes, saltwater test kits, marine fish food, and coral and invertebrate food.
Price history
The market median for Porites has changed 9 times in 55 days of tracking. Median shifts here usually come from vendor promotion events or the in-stock mix changing rather than gradual drift (how these prices actually behave) — genuine repricings land on the price drops page as we observe them.
Common questions
Every answer below is computed from this page's own numbers at build time, and updates with the daily data refresh.
- How much does Porites cost?
- The median price is $23.20, based on 8 in-stock listings across 3 online reef vendors as of September 5, 2026. The range runs from $14.99 at the low end to $39.99 at the high end.
- Which vendor has the cheapest Porites?
- Reef Chasers has the lowest current listing at $14.99, as of September 5, 2026. Prices exclude shipping, which differs by vendor and can change which store is cheapest to your door.
- Which vendors sell Porites?
- 3 of the online reef vendors the index tracks list it as of September 5, 2026: Reef Chasers at $14.99, World Wide Corals at $23.20 and Top Shelf Aquatics at $24.99. Each figure is that vendor's cheapest current listing.
- Has the price of Porites changed?
- Yes. The market median has changed 9 times across the 55 days the index has tracked it. Shifts here usually come from vendor promotion events or the in-stock mix changing rather than gradual drift.
- Is Porites in stock right now?
- 8 of the 11 listings the index tracks for it were in stock as of September 5, 2026, across 3 vendors.
Cite this page: Reef Price Index, "Porites price," data through September 5, 2026. https://reefpriceindex.com/species/porites
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We check Porites prices at every vendor we track, every day. How the index works.