Are scolys easy to keep?

[maksim serebro]

Hi, need a bit of advice. I’ve been keeping corals for several years now. Both sps and lps. My current system only has lps corals. I never had a scoly. Are they easy? I keep reading that they die after a year or two. I prefer not to buy one if that’s the case. Thanks!

 

[tupes]

If you can successfully keep lps you should be good. I had 5 for quite some time until I had a heater malfunction and my tank crashed.

 

[Bj’s Reef]

Good question, I’m coming along for the discussion.

 

[tupes]

Here are the ones I had. I dont have. a photo of the 5th one. I had these around just over 3 years before my crash.

 

[Mal11224]

I have two and they are hardy corals. I’ve had mine for a year and a half. Just keep them in low light and feed them from time to time and try to keep them away from aggressive corals.

 

[maksim serebro]

Thanks! The one coral I could never keep was goniporras. Was hoping scolys were more like donut corals - hardy and not prone to infections

 

[tupes]

Gonis are a harder coral to keep. At least they were a few years ago. I believe the captive bred varieties are a bit easier.

 

[bknope]

Here are the ones I had. I dont have. a photo of the 5th one. I had these around just over 3 years before my crash.

They are all beautiful...but wow that big one on top is [emoji33]

Edit: is it a brain??

 

[tupes]

Yes. I had it for about 6 -7 years.

 

[tupes]

Yea. Here are 2 more photos of it.

I had it for about 6-7 years before my tank crashed. At it's best it had 4 colors Red, Blue, green and a couple months before the end Yellow on the side rim.

 

[tupes]

I can find the photo of when I first got it. I'd have to dig on my computer and external hard drives.

Now I want to cry.

I mean it was so nice in person it would make Stevie Wonder want to buy it.

 

[homer1475]

Are you sure thats a scoly and not a brain? Looks more like an open brain to me(Trachyphyllia).

Scolys are fairly easy to keep. They prefer low light and low flow areas. I bought one a few years back from my LFS that was a tank rescue. It had receded to nearly a quarter of it's size, and was slowly dying. I have always wanted a scoly but found most are super expensive. When my LFS said he would take 10$ for it, I was all over it. Now 3 years later it's a beautiful piece.

When I rescued it:

Current photo:

 

[tupes]

Yea. Here are 2 more photos of it.

I had it for about 6-7 years before my tank crashed. At it's best it had 4 colors Red, Blue, green and a couple months before the end Yellow on the side rim.

Are you sure thats a scoly and not a brain? Looks more like an open brain to me(Trachyphyllia).

Scolys are fairly easy to keep. They prefer low light and low flow areas. I bought one a few years back from my LFS that was a tank rescue. It had receded to nearly a quarter of it's size, and was slowly dying. I have always wanted a scoly but found most are super expensive. When my LFS said he would take 10$ for it, I was all over it. Now 3 years later it's a beautiful piece.

Yes, The last post I did is an open brain. The scolys are in the photos above that one.

 

[homer1475]

Yes saw the above pics(great looking scoly's BTW!).

Just didn't want the OP to get confused as to what a scoly really looked like.

 

[tupes]

Gotcha. I hope to get back to those days. Itll just take a while.

 

[Southpawblues]

I’ve had two scolys in my tank for several years. In the past month, a black ring has developed on one of them. Check it out

 

[Alex Reyes]

I love my Scolymia have only had it for about 12 months. Hopefully I can keep it for a few more years

 

[LV3]

I’d echo what everyone is saying, low light low flow. This bleeding apple I have was on the brink of death and grew back several mouths on the same skeleton. My favorite at the moment.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I find scolys and trachy easy as long as tank is established, good maintenance on tank water and fed 2-3x weekly.
They do best on bottom but sand can occasionally land on them

 

[Dr. Reef Verified Sponsor]

i have had a few over time and are easy to keep. if tank is established and everything else is fine and maintained then sure they are easy.