Cyphastrea

[JGoslee]

I'm thinking about adding a few frags of Cyphastrea to my tank. Anyone have any basic info on them? Lighting, flow, feeding?

 

[sf_ramsden]

I will tag along on this one as I am interested as well... Some pictures of some nice ones would be saweet too!

 

[dc_909]

Don't know anything about them, but I just picked this one up from a local swap.

 

[gflat65]

I've had decadia's in the past and they seemed to like med flow and med light. The microphthalma (Larry's Mine Field Ceph or something like that-nice blue and green) didn't do well for me. I had it low in the tnak and in med flow. Cephastrea are a cool coral.

 

[JGoslee]

Thats nice!

 

[jendub]

I love cyphastrea's!!!

I know that mine like light so medium-high light placement. I would give a good amount of flow to help growth stimulation. I feed cyclo-peez once or twice a week. Fragging is easy with these guys but I would wait for it to get established and encrust to whatever you have it attached to. Make sure you keep it out of the sand...it irritates the polyps. They are pretty easy to take care of and come in a couple cool color morphs.

*This is just my experience with my cyphastrea's, so get more info before you buy.

Ciao,
Jen=)

Rainbow cyphastrea

Pink and blue cyphastrea

Toxic green cyphastrea

Orange cyphastrea

 

[dc_909]

I think I might have found another addiction

 

[Azurel]

I think I might have found another addiction

I hear ya this coral crap is worse then drugs, at least drugs are cheaper....

 

[JGoslee]

So it sounds like they have about the same needs as a montipora.

Jen those are some crazy looking cyphastrea!

 

[gflat65]

Thanks alot, Jen. Now I've gotta find some more Cephastreas. At least my wife got to see these so I will only get a lug wrench swung at my head rather than rabbid attack ferrets sent to get me.

 

[jendub]

thanks guys for the nice comments

I love corals that come in crazy colors. I guess that is my addiction and if any of you get an addiction, don't blame it on me.=)

 

[cee]

Not too much light on these guys. My Atlantis original went brown until I reduced the intensity and went 14k. Now it's electric green with the orange/red polyps and about the size of my hand. Pretty aggressive too.
Dave

 

[racerw]

I keep mine on the bottom under a 400 watt w/lots of flow, it seems pretty happy.

 

[jendub]

I love that pic Stacie!!!=)

 

[kevin]

Here is mine. It has grown from a 1/4 inch fragment.

 

[Azurel]

That's pretty cool looking.....I don't think I have seen them branch out like that before......Nice!

 

[kevin]

thanks. It started out as a small twig on a frag plug. I hope that it will encrust onto the other rocks and then grow further upwards.

 

[dieselab]

Very nice corals. I got about 4 different morphs. One of my favorites for sure.

 

[jonbar1]

My new one:

Jon

 

[edwing206]

Very nice pieces guys!
Kevin, yours looks like an LPS/SPS mix. Pretty neat.