Euphyllia Advice for Success

[Angel_V_the_reefer]

Hey there R2R!

Glad to be back in the hobby. Don’t want to take over this thread but to give you guys an insight, I’m building an IM Nuvo 14 Nano Euphyllia dominant with a 20 gallon mixing station.

i plan on letting the tank mature for a year before I add any corals.

anyways, as you guys that own Euphyllia know, these corals are anything but easy to care for.

i want to start a thread and get you guys to give any advice for these awesome corals for those looking to get into them !

let’s hear them !

 

[mtraylor]

Get yourself an ato. Keepnstable parms and nice random low to medium flow.

 

[Angel_V_the_reefer]

Get yourself an ato. Keepnstable parms and nice random low to medium flow.

I agree ! Tried to run a nano without an ATO and I wish I could say I never missed a day of top off …

 

[Dave1993]

i just set up a fluval evo 13.5 doing the same Euphyllia dominated but i aint waiting 1 year more like 1 month :P

getting this beauty soon

 

[Orito]

I believe I need your advice on how to wait one year before adding coral...

 

[Dave1993]

I believe I need your advice on how to wait one year before adding coral...

same

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hey there R2R!

Glad to be back in the hobby. Don’t want to take over this thread but to give you guys an insight, I’m building an IM Nuvo 14 Nano Euphyllia dominant with a 20 gallon mixing station.

i plan on letting the tank mature for a year before I add any corals.

anyways, as you guys that own Euphyllia know, these corals are anything but easy to care for.

i want to start a thread and get you guys to give any advice for these awesome corals for those looking to get into them !

let’s hear them !

Euphyllia can be forgiving and challenge the most experienced hobbyist.
They need subtle light and water flow and clacium very important for their skeleton. Current cant be so sttrong that the polyps are bent over.
While feeding is good, proper lighting is important as they get most of their energy from internal algae known as zooxanthellae which is fed by various UV
Below is a pic os Some of mine at lower third of tank under medium light and moderate flow

 

[Angel_V_the_reefer]

i just set up a fluval evo 13.5 doing the same Euphyllia dominated but i aint waiting 1 year more like 1 month :p

I hope I’m able to last a year, I do get tempted with all these frag shows that come around

 

[Angel_V_the_reefer]

I believe I need your advice on how to wait one year before adding coral..

I hope I make it to a year, we will see very very soon

 

[Angel_V_the_reefer]

Euphyllia can be forgiving and challenge the most experienced hobbyist.
They need subtle light and water flow and clacium very important for their skeleton. Current cant be so sttrong that the polyps are bent over.
While feeding is good, proper lighting is important as they get most of their energy from internal algae known as zooxanthellae which is fed by various UV
Below is a pic os Some of mine at lower third of tank under medium light and moderate flow

Wow that’s an awesome reef ! Love the copper and on the left, I’m sure he enjoys his home. Very healthy looking Euphyllia, kudos

 

[mdb_talon]

I hope I make it to a year, we will see very very soon

I waited almost two days before adding coral in my last system. It was tough but I pushed through and held out that whole time.

 

[Kristopher Conlin]

Make sure to keep on top of nitrates and phosphates. at least 5 nitrate and 0.03 phosphates. Euphyllia don't like low nutrients and will wither away if it bottoms out.

 

[ssster2020]

From my limited experience (2 years), I am running an Evo 13.5 which is an LPS tank, I would agree with previous posts suggesting strongly that you use an ATO.

Also no clownfish! This is total anecdotal but I have a pair of clownfish which were the first animals I put into the tank when I set it up. I then added some torch coral, the coral did good and were growing and appeared healthy. Then the clowns decided to host in them and within a couple of months the torch bailed out. I thought there was something wrong with the my husbandry. A while later I added some hammers and the identical thing happened.
I removed the clowns and added hammers and they appear to be thriving. Now the clowns are in a larger tank antagonizing my Goni garden, I'm watching them closely, wish me luck.

 

[mdb_talon]

From my limited experience (2 years), I am running an Evo 13.5 which is an LPS tank, I would agree with previous posts suggesting strongly that you use an ATO.

Also no clownfish! This is total anecdotal but I have a pair of clownfish which were the first animals I put into the tank when I set it up. I then added some torch coral, the coral did good and were growing and appeared healthy. Then the clowns decided to host in them and within a couple of months the torch bailed out. I thought there was something wrong with the my husbandry. A while later I added some hammers and the identical thing happened.
I removed the clowns and added hammers and they appear to be thriving. Now the clowns are in a larger tank antagonizing my Goni garden, I'm watching them closely, wish me luck.

Haha good luck! My clowns all love gonis. Seems 9 out of ten times for me they choose it over anything else including anenomes.

 

[Angel_V_the_reefer]

I waited almost two days before adding coral in my last system. It was tough but I pushed through and held out that whole time.

This is hilarious, how are the corals doing in your system ?

 

[Angel_V_the_reefer]

Make sure to keep on top of nitrates and phosphates. at least 5 nitrate and 0.03 phosphates. Euphyllia don't like low nutrients and will wither away if it bottoms out.

Awesome. IME i find this to be true, luckily I’ve never had low nutrients

 

[Angel_V_the_reefer]

From my limited experience (2 years), I am running an Evo 13.5 which is an LPS tank, I would agree with previous posts suggesting strongly that you use an ATO.

Also no clownfish! This is total anecdotal but I have a pair of clownfish which were the first animals I put into the tank when I set it up. I then added some torch coral, the coral did good and were growing and appeared healthy. Then the clowns decided to host in them and within a couple of months the torch bailed out. I thought there was something wrong with the my husbandry. A while later I added some hammers and the identical thing happened.
I removed the clowns and added hammers and they appear to be thriving. Now the clowns are in a larger tank antagonizing my Goni garden, I'm watching them closely, wish me luck.

I’ve had the same experience, however my corals never showed any signs of stress. My clowns loved the biggest hammer the could live in.

got me a Tunze 3155 for my new build, I am very forgetful, never going by without an ATO again

 

[Spare time]

Hey there R2R!

Glad to be back in the hobby. Don’t want to take over this thread but to give you guys an insight, I’m building an IM Nuvo 14 Nano Euphyllia dominant with a 20 gallon mixing station.

i plan on letting the tank mature for a year before I add any corals.

anyways, as you guys that own Euphyllia know, these corals are anything but easy to care for.

i want to start a thread and get you guys to give any advice for these awesome corals for those looking to get into them !

let’s hear them !

You really don't have to wait a year to add coral. How well coral does has nothing to do with tank maturity. It has to do with the experience of who is keeping the coral. Euphyllia also is pretty easy to care for so I am not sure where you heard that. All they need is moderate lighting (i.e. 100-150 in terms of par), and the same water parameter requirements as any other calcium carbonate based coral. Gentle flow is also good. It is also comedic to me that people are saying its a difficult coral genre. They also don't need "dirtier water." That is ignorant of where the corals come from and naturally live. Corals live in environments with very low nitrogen and phosphate so you can have a really low number for both as long as the fish are being fed frequently or you are feeding the corals.

 

[mdb_talon]

Oh they are fine....not that I am recommending this but it usually what I do(lack of planning and patience lol). That system was a large shallow vat about 30"x"70. Set it up and on third day it was full of coral. Below is a more recent pic, but all these acro colonies were the first inhabitants. They were transhipped and I did lose 2 colonies in the first week but none since. The ones lost I believe was about shipping stress more than anything cause they all came in rough shape.

 

[kevgib67]

I began adding at about 3 months, all one head now 5-6 except for my NY Knicks and orange tipped frogspawn which I fragged two heads each last month. As stated above moderate light and flow. My tank runs with higher nitrates and phosphate then what was recommended above.