stylophora advice?

[fishfanashley]

Hi, just wondering if anybody knows if stylophora corals can benefit from anything special eg. feeding, lighting. Any tricks to making them thrive other than the usual Sps guidlines?

 

[reefboy1994]

i have one in my tank, its bright orange, i dont do anything special for it and i see great growth and color. so i guess its not necesarie to do anything special other than keeping everything in check for sps.

 

[Justin74]

Flow was a major contributor to growth and good color, seemed mine was more concerned with a good current to be happy than lots of light. Actually kept mine on the bottom of the tank and it thrived


-Justin

 

[Btortorelli]

I have mine directly under a 150w mh and pretty good flow and it is growing pretty fast!

 

[fishfanashley]

thanks for the tips.

 

[drawman]

IME they like very high lighting and flow.

 

[StrategicReef]

I can't grow them.. real slow, not sure why, always have good PE but never get bigger.
I heard they only need moderate lighting.

 

[drawman]

I can't grow them.. real slow, not sure why, always have good PE but never get bigger.
I heard they only need moderate lighting.

I have had mine get darker under lower lighting. I am sure zeo would be nice for the colors as well.

 

[Justin74]

Your going to get different experiences on lighting because theres a few different morphs of stylos. The pink ones are generally found higher, which makes sense due to there color that they be exposed to higher amounts of light and be found in exposed reef flats. I've had two so far, the pink one liked the light as much as flow, while my blue polypd stylo liked being down at the bottom of my tank and partially shaded under my T5's. Bottom line though is, they all like a good current and are genetically designed like a brick sh*t house

-Justin

 

[stanlalee]

nothing particular. one of the easier sps. any sps appropriate lighting and flow should suffice.

mine 11/08' (maricultured I assume by the base) under 150w halide

about a year later still under 150w halide (20k most of the time)

and its been fragged (just my luck all the invaluable sps take off)

 

[t4zalews]

I have a blue and pink stylo and from what i've experienced, they tend to thrive in medium/high light and medium/high flow. I agree with flow being more important than light with these corals.

 

[coralmojo]

zeovit makes an additive called stylo-pocci glow, make just for them...check it out...

DrMerle

 

[brshriver]

Re: stylophora advice?

Flow is important for the long term because they can be so dense when they grow. Some people have trouble with them long term once they grow dense and the middle parts ge restricted flow. Pruning may help.

I have a wild tan one that is pink under high light. It grows well under high and low light though.

I have a green one that seems happy and green under all light.

My blue one is only under high light and has washed out colors but grows fast. I suspect it would look better under lower light as someone mentioned above. I have had frags of it rtn before though even when ones right beside it were fine. I never figured that out.

All of them seem to grow like weeds in med to high light and their skeltal structure is so dense that they are hard to cut with plier like frag tools.


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[cobra77]

i recently moved mine from the bottom of the tank to the top and i've noticed increased coloration and more polyp extension

 

[Airwolf75]

I have better coloration when not under direct light as well. Moderate light/ high flow.

 

[Reeferland]

i had mine in med/hg under 250w 14k with med flow and it seem to grow pretty good as well as color.

 

[fullmonti]

I have 5 different ones, mostly small yet, 400w MH 25" deep tank. they all are near the bottom to mid tank. The pink one seems to grow slower, green & rainbow grow fastest, love them all.

 

[soulsigma]

I have 5 different ones, mostly small yet, 400w MH 25" deep tank. they all are near the bottom to mid tank. The pink one seems to grow slower, green & rainbow grow fastest, love them all.

Can you post some pictures of your rainbow stylo ?

 

[soulsigma]

I have 5 different ones, mostly small yet, 400w MH 25" deep tank. they all are near the bottom to mid tank. The pink one seems to grow slower, green & rainbow grow fastest, love them all.

Can you post some pictures of your rainbow stylo ?

 

[jtumbleweed]

I burned the hell out of mine under 2x 150 watts Phoenix 14ks in my old 40br. I have since moved into a 58 Oceanic and placed it on the bottom. It has colored up much more, even this picture is a few weeks old and it is deeper pink than this. Great color and great PE but no growth at all I don't think.