- Name:
Sour Apple Chalice
(View AKA's) - Family: Pectiniidae
- Species: Echinophyllia
- Scientific Name: Echinophyllia aspera
General info about Sour Apple Chalice
In general, species from Echinophyllia has an encrusting growth where their colonies can form folds or cups. The corallites that are located at the middle are usually elevated with warty bumps. The color of their mouth usually has a different color from their fleshy body.
For the Sour Apple Chalice Echinophyllia, they are predominatly colored green with pink mouth. This are the water parameters for cultivating Sour Apple Chalice Echinophyllia:
- 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
Sour Apple Chalice Diet & Nutrition
The Sour Apple Chalice Echinophyllia 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 Sour Apple Chalice
A mature tank is recommended in cultivating Sour Apple Chalice Echinophyllia. They are highly adaptive that it can grow and encrust any surface, including the glass component of your tank.
Flow / Lighting Requirements for Sour Apple Chalice
The Sour Apple Chalice Echinophyllia 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 Sour Apple Chalice
The Sour Apple Chalice Echinophyllia are prone to brown jelly infection, especially if water conditions are not met and maintained.
Sour Apple Chalice Origin
The Sour Apple Chalice Echinophyllia can be found in the waters of the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
Caution Should be Taken with Sour Apple Chalice
The Sour Apple Chalice Echinophyllia has an aggressive behavior. Therefore, proper spacing must be maintained with regards to nearby corals.
How to Acclimate Sour Apple Chalice
The Sour Apple Chalice Echinophyllia are purely marine, therefore, salinity must be maintained thoroughly at 1.023 to 1.025 specific gravity.
Stinging Tentacles on Sour Apple Chalice
The tentacles of the Sour Apple Chalice Echinophyllia are classfied as sweeper tentacles where it can extend, invade and sting nearby corals.
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Sour Apple Chalice | Echinophyllia | Pectiniidae | Echinophyllia aspera | In general, species from Echinophyllia has an encrusting growth where their colonies can form folds or cups. The corallites that are located at the middle are usually elevated with warty bumps. The color of their mouth usually has a different color from their fleshy body. For the Sour Apple Chalice Echinophyllia, they are predominatly colored green with pink mouth. This are the water parameters for cultivating Sour Apple Chalice Echinophyllia:
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