• Date Added: 11/23/2008
• Tank: Cardiff 24 gallon
• Status: Inactive 08/21/2009
• Purchased at: Coral Corral
• Cost: $50.00
• Coloration: Green with Purple Tips
• Lighting: Nova Extreme Pro T5HO – 20″ – 6 x 18 Watts

General Information

• Description: The Frogspawn is a large polyp stony (LPS) coral and will either have a continious exoskeleton or it will be branching. This coral resembles a mass of frog eggs, with numerous tiny balled tentacles branching out from the tissue.
• Light & Flow: For optimum coloration, it should be given a medium light levels such as T5 or metal halide lighting combined with moderate to low intermittent water current within the aquarium.
• Supplements: It will require maintaining stable levels of calcium, magnesium, pH, alkalinity, and other trace elements as you would with other types of LPS corals. It is essential for LPS health to keep nutrients such as nitrates and phosphates near low to undetectable levels.
• Feeding: Euphyllia divisa derives its nutrition mainly through photosynthesis which is performed by zooxanthellae, a photosynthetic alga living symbiotically within the coral. While it does not require additional food to maintain its health in a mixed reef tank, it will feed on micro-plankton and foods designed for filter feeding invertebrates. It is Carnivorous in feeding habit and filter feeds weekly, when open and feeds upon acellular marine invertebrates, frozen meaty bits of raw shrimp, Silver Side, fish, squid and Mysis Shrimp, zooplankton and phytoplankton.
• Care: It is susceptible to Brown Jelly Infection in which the parasite converts the coral into a jelly like substance and thus kills it. Treat immediately.
• Range: Indo-Pacific including Fiji, the Great Barrier Reef, Tonga and Solomon Islands
• Other Names: Frogspawn coral, Grape Coral
• Other Colors: Green, Pale Brown, Tan
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Green with Purple Tips

Brown