- Name:
Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora
(View AKA's) - Family: Pectiniidae
- Species: Oxypora
- Scientific Name: Oxypora lacera
General info about Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora
In general, corals coming the genus Oxypora takes the encrusting, submassive and laminar types of coral growth. They have colonies that is composed of several corallites which are often porous and brittle. This means that they can easily be broken. If you are able to touch the underside of this coral, you will feel that it is spiny due to the perforations of its plate formation.
For the Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora, they are predominatly colored red with violet margin. This are the water parameters for cultivating Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora:
- Calcium: 380 - 430 ppm
- Alkalinity: 3.2 - 4.8 MEQ/L
- Phosphates: 0
- Magnesium: 1200 - 1350
- Strontium: 8 - 10
- Temperature: 74° - 82° F (23° - 27° C)
- Salinity / Specific Gravity: 1.023 - 1.025
Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora Diet & Nutrition
The Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora gets much of its nutrition from the symbiotic zooxanthellae living within their tissues. However, we still recommend you do supplemental feeding by adding mysis and brine shrimp.
Fragging / Propagating Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora
A mature tank is recommended in cultivating Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora. They are highly adaptive that it can grow and encrust any surface, including the glass component of your tank.
Flow / Lighting Requirements for Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora
The Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora requires moderate lighting and low to moderate waterflow. If they are exposed to strong waterflow, their tentacles wiill not go out, which in turn, will deprive them from feeding.
Parasites & Diseases that Affect Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora
The Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora are prone to brown jelly infection, especially if water conditions are not met and maintained.
Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora Origin
The Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora can be found in the waters of the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
Caution Should be Taken with Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora
The Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora has an aggressive behavior. Therefore, proper spacing must be maintained with regards to nearby corals.
How to Acclimate Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora
The Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora are purely marine, therefore, salinity must be maintained thoroughly at 1.023 to 1.025 specific gravity.
Stinging Tentacles on Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora
The tentacles of the Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora are classfied as sweeper tentacles where it can extend, invade and sting nearby corals.
Original Detail
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| Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora | Oxypora | Pectiniidae | Oxypora lacera | In general, corals coming the genus Oxypora takes the encrusting, submassive and laminar types of coral growth. They have colonies that is composed of several corallites which are often porous and brittle. This means that they can easily be broken. If you are able to touch the underside of this coral, you will feel that it is spiny due to the perforations of its plate formation. For the Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora, they are predominatly colored red with violet margin. This are the water parameters for cultivating Dessert Plate Chalice Oxypora:
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