Australophyllia Wilsoni care

[Lightspeed]

The colourful Wilsoni is a temperate water species and will bleach out if you go putting it into a warm tropical water tank. The temperate and very colourful Wilsoni should be kept at 21-23c as a max guide, if you are going to keep these you must acclimate for a long period, but i would not suggest keeping these even at 23c, this is going to screw your other corals which are no doubt tropical climate. So the pics in this thread, i do not believe are from trace element parameters so much or lighting, it's simply your environment is just far to warm. Unless the colony has been acclimatized previously and has not bleached out, i would be wary of purchasing these beauties.
https://reefbuilders.com/2019/10/02/australophyllia-wilsoni/

 

[Lowefx]

The colourful Wilsoni is a temperate water species and will bleach out if you go putting it into a warm tropical water tank. The temperate and very colourful Wilsoni should be kept at 21-23c as a max guide, if you are going to keep these you must acclimate for a long period, but i would not suggest keeping these even at 23c, this is going to screw your other corals which are no doubt tropical climate. So the pics in this thread, i do not believe are from trace element parameters so much or lighting, it's simply your environment is just far to warm. Unless the colony has been acclimatized previously and has not bleached out, i would be wary of purchasing these beauties.
https://reefbuilders.com/2019/10/02/australophyllia-wilsoni/

That's 69F to 73F for us in N. America. :p

 

[Dannyboy402]

Reviving this thread!
I just bought this one from Cali Kid and I hope this one does well. I don't feed any of my corals in my tank. My LPS just catch whatever is floating by when I feed my tank.

 

[RobertK]

I got a couple wilsoni frags from Tidal Gardens recently, they are doing well so far. They say they've been growing a few different color morphs for a while now and they have adapted to their tank conditions, including higher tank temps. Check out their video about care of this coral, in addition to some helpful info there are beautiful pics of their colonies!

Tidal Gardens Australophyllia video and blog