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[Zero_Cool]

New coral question - Anyone keep Cynarina corals? Similar to Acanthrophyllia or Indophyllia?

Essentially, which are easiest to keep - Cynarina, Acanthrophyllia, Indophyllia, Wellsophyllia or Scolly?

I have the super hot SBB Trachy/Welso and want to add a few of the other big LPS to the new tank eventually.

 

[Thuan]

New coral question - Anyone keep Cynarina corals? Similar to Acanthrophyllia or Indophyllia?

Essentially, which are easiest to keep - Cynarina, Acanthrophyllia, Indophyllia, Wellsophyllia or Scolly?

I have the super hot SBB Trachy/Welso and want to add a few of the other big LPS to the new tank eventually.

I have cynarina. They're like meat coral. low flow and light. I had never had indophyllia, but it's very similar to meat and cynarina. I also have a rainbow welso. Be careful if you have tangs and keep a trachy or welso because they are known to nip at it. I keep my welso in a cage. They all love to be target feed

 

[ReeferZ1227]

That's what I was wondering, if adding dead is just adding pollutants.

Yes and no, technically yes you are but youre adding food no less. Reef roids is just dried phyto IIRC. Obv. You want to dose live phyto if youre paying for live phyto but you likely wont harm your tank if youre finishing up a bottle thats so/so.

My tangs killed my scolys by way of nipping, but i think thats them trying to clean the algae off the skeleton, then realizing the flesh is also a snack. I dont think theyd mess with a bigger meat type but hard to say.

 

[Zero_Cool]

I have cynarina. They're like meat coral. low flow and light. I had never had indophyllia, but it's very similar to meat and cynarina. I also have a rainbow welso. Be careful if you have tangs and keep a trachy or welso because they are known to nip at it. I keep my welso in a cage. They all love to be target feed

No tangs in the LPS tank but there is a Copper Banded Butterfly. Hasn't nipped at any of the corals (acan, blasto, button scolly, euphilia) yet so I am hopeful.

Sounds like they are all about the same care level then. Thank you.

 

[Zero_Cool]

Yes and no, technically yes you are but youre adding food no less. Reef roids is just dried phyto IIRC. Obv. You want to dose live phyto if youre paying for live phyto but you likely wont harm your tank if youre finishing up a bottle thats so/so.

This makes perfect sense. I make the BRS coral food recipe and one of the ingredients is freeze dried phyto.

 

[billyocean]

New coral question - Anyone keep Cynarina corals? Similar to Acanthrophyllia or Indophyllia?

Essentially, which are easiest to keep - Cynarina, Acanthrophyllia, Indophyllia, Wellsophyllia or Scolly?

I have the super hot SBB Trachy/Welso and want to add a few of the other big LPS to the new tank eventually.

Holy saturated picture batman!

 

[steveschuerger]

It’s out in the wild .

 

[steveschuerger]

I dunno. If the phyto smells like death to me I toss it. But then, I usually burn thru it and it doesn’t have a chance to get that far.

 

[Zero_Cool]

Holy saturated picture batman!

That was just a random pic I pulled from google images.

 

[steveschuerger]

Well that was fast. It’s here. About to go down and get it

 

[Thuan]

I dunno. If the phyto smells like death to me I toss it. But then, I usually burn thru it and it doesn’t have a chance to get that far.

Same here

 

[Thuan]

Well that was fast. It’s here. About to go down and get it

multiple orders there Steve

 

[steveschuerger]

Haha. That was the plant for my wife. The real box was behind it.

 

[DJF]

New coral question - Anyone keep Cynarina corals? Similar to Acanthrophyllia or Indophyllia?

Essentially, which are easiest to keep - Cynarina, Acanthrophyllia, Indophyllia, Wellsophyllia or Scolly?

I have the super hot SBB Trachy/Welso and want to add a few of the other big LPS to the new tank eventually.

I do. I keep an acantho next to a cynarina and an indophyllia. They are identical to care for. I have all mine on a shelf rock directly on sand bed.

 

[Zero_Cool]

I do. I keep an acantho next to a cynarina and an indophyllia. They are identical to care for. I have all mine on a shelf rock directly on sand bed.

Thank you. Got pics?

 

[Thuan]

Thank you. Got pics?

My rainbow welso

 

[Zero_Cool]

My rainbow welso

Is that a tank inside a tank?

 

[ReeferZ1227]

Is that a tank inside a tank?

Yes. She calls it a cage, its bigger than alot of nano tanks LOL

 

[Thuan]

Is that a tank inside a tank?

No. I bought some refrigerator trays with slits and modified it to fit the welso. If I didn't have it, my sailfin smells blood and would be an expensive snack

 

[Zero_Cool]

My rainbow welso

SBB Purple Monster still looking sexy