Dragon Soul Favia Brain Coral

[Spyderturbo007]

Does anyone know anything about this particular coral?

I was considering purchasing a piece, but wanted to get some more information. Is it a fast grower? Easy to remove from the rock when you need to frag if you can't pull the rock from the tank? Anything else I should know about the coral?

 

[VoiceInTheDeser]

Does anyone know anything about this particular coral?

I was considering purchasing a piece, but wanted to get some more information. Is it a fast grower? Easy to remove from the rock when you need to frag if you can't pull the rock from the tank? Anything else I should know about the coral?

I have a small piece of this that started off as a two polyp frag. In the two months I've had it, it's gotten one new polyp that's still pretty small. I've been meaning to get it mounted to a rock to see if that makes it happier.

As far as aggression goes, I was nervous because every site I've seen indicates it's aggressive. I have yet to have any issues with it stinging anything though and it's only a few inches away from my acans.

 

[Spyderturbo007]

Awesome. I think I'll order a frag. I always like to check because I know some things turn out to be weeds that take over peoples' tanks. I don't want to throw in some that grows like GSPs and have it over run the tank.

 

[rovster]

Had mine for 4 months, no growth. I think one head is splitting, but it may have been like that from the beginning. Colors are beautiful though.

 

[lhm nole]

Great coral very slow grower keep away from scollys , the scollys will try to eat them imo very passive for a lps

 

[mess7777]

awesome coral, Mine started with 9 mouths, now has about 15 after a year. Awesome colors, and very hardy.

 

[Connoisseur]

Dragon Soul [Reverse Prism] "Favia", for those who are currently unaware/uninformed regarding this, is actually correctly identified, at the Genus. species level, as Goniastrea palauensis ...

NOT a species of Favia.

Even though it technically is a Faviidae, at the Family hierarchy level of binomial nomenclature, it should be more scientifically labelled as Goniastrea ... Even for the least pure of ReefKeeping hobby names. HTH

 

[jessicaparker]

what placement is best for this? i have a low in the tank crevice that is kind of shaded by a rock above. i was hoping that would be acceptable. ive heard favias are good with low light.

 

[Goby go]

I want to know placement for light and flow on this as well.

 

[lhm nole]

Keep in medium to light flow and low to medium light

 

[jessicaparker]

how can a scoly try to eat a dragon soul unless it falls into its mouth

 

[Reef Frog]

Mine is a ball half the size of s jumbo grapefruit. Low to medium light is fine. It will noeach under light that is too strong. It should definately be mounted on a rock where it can crow & expand. I have never seen long sweeper tentacles on this coral but that doesn't mean they don't have them, but ibe only seen the shirt feeder tentacles come out at night.

I wouldn't say its a fast grower but it grows steadily for me. The polyps adhere to the rock quite well, so to frag you will need to take a nice chunk of they underlying rock.