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Description Dragon Soul Favia. This Dragon Soul Favia is a two head WYSIWYG frag approximately 2″. Hearty and colorful LPS coral with low lighting demands. This easy to care for LPS is perfect near the sandbed and will adjust to a broad range of lighting if acclimated slowly.
Dragon Soul Richard McKellips Seed Colony. This amazing Favia speciescoral from Australia can developsome exotic pigmentation patterns. When viewed from far away there arethree distinct areas of pigments:a bright green corallite center; a dark purple inner ring and theupper ridges which develop red pigments.This image of Richards colony demonstrates how the coralappears when the tissue is fully expanded.Image Copyright © 2007 by Richard McKellip All Rights Reserved.The captive US exotic coral market has began to see some absolutely incredible Reef Building StonyCorals exported from Australia during 2007. The first corals that attracted lots of attention werethe Acan Lords, but we also some incredible Australian Favia Brain corals withexotic pigmentation patterns. The Dragon Soul Favia species Brain has a ringed pigmentation pattern.The inner corallite wall has a distinct dark purple that contrasts with the center corallite colorand the upper corallite ridge color.
This purple inner wall gives the coral a ringed appearence.Corallite ridges are colored red while the inner corallite area is bright green. The red ridgecoloration can vary depending on the health of the coral. This red fluorescing pigment appears to bestimulated to fluoresce brighter with some green light illumination. So the ridges may appear morered under 10,000 to 14,000 K halides.
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The coral also develops a bright green leading growth edge.Reeffarmers acquired our seed fragments from Richard McKellipswith. We were alsooffered a fragment of the coral from Miguel with at around the same time. Both Miguel and Richard acquired their corals from the sameexporter/importer and they have mutually agreed upon the Dragon Soul name.Steve Tyree is maintaining a seed section of this coral for Reeffarmers.com in a 125 gallonnaturally filtered TriZonal system. This system is naturally filtered with a cryptic zone,filter feeder zone and reef flat exposed zone.In Steve's captive reef the coral is positioned 20 inches away from a 400 watt 20,000 K Radiummetal halide. The coral appears to develop its most intense coloration under moderateillumination. It may appear more red under 10,000 to 14,000 K halides.Please note - in August 2010 Reeffarmers retired this coral.
It was mainly due to the coralnot recovering well from fragmentation. We no longer maintain a seed of this coral. Therewere also many additional colonies imported.
Dragon Soul Favia Reeffarmers Seed corallite closeup. This corallitecloseup demonstrates the incredible rainbowpattern of different colored pigments that this coral candevelop. The upper right leading edge of this coral developsbright green pigments. The corallite centeris solid medium to bright green. The inner wall or ring of the corallitehas a dark purple coloration. Thispurple changes to red at the upper inner wall ridge. The purple coloration is causedby acombination of red and blue pigments.
Description
This Dragon Soul Favia is a two head WYSIWYG frag approximately 2″. Hearty and colorful LPS coral with low lighting demands. This easy to care for LPS is perfect near the sandbed and will adjust to a broad range of lighting if acclimated slowly. Favia are a great coral for beginners or even the seasoned aquarist looking for a classic, low-demand coral to complete their collection.
Husbandry
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These are very interesting looking corals that come in a multitude of color variations. Favias are part of the very large family of brain corals. These corals are commonly called Moon Coral, Green Moon Coral, Pineapple Coral, Brain Coral, and Star Coral. The Favia Corals are a large polyp stony (LPS) corals that closely resemble the human brain and therefore often referred to as Brain, Closed Brain, Pineapple or Honeycomb Coral. Favias have been known to let out long sweeper tentacles at night and possibly sting neighbors. Favia corals have a large round like or dome like shaped colonies. Favia coral colorations are frequently green, yellow and brown but can also be found in other colors or a mix of colors like orange, blue, and red. Actinic lights will also help bring out the color in Favia corals.
Feeding and placement
The primary food source for the Favia Coral is the marine algae, also known as zooxanthellae, from which they receive the majority of its nutrition. Please note that the Favia Coral does need to be fed at the once a week, at the least, and grow quite well with regular feedings. The average Favia Coral colony is the most successful when it is able to colonize a sharp rocky surfaces. It is advised that you place the coral onto lowest lit point of your tank and move them to brighter areas over time to see, after they’ve had some time to get comfortable with their environment. Favia corals have a thick coral skeleton and can use a lot of calcium and alkalinity. Due to this the aquarist should test levels at least weekly to maintain good growth and health.
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