Chalice Care

baseballman 25 · May 6, 2009

After seeing tropicoriums acid trip chalice,i really want to start collecting them now.How hard are they to take care of?Everywhere I read says that they are pretty easy.Do they like high light/low light?Do you guys feed them?Any advice and tips would be much appreciated.

mylittlejade · May 6, 2009

Stay away you will spend to much money. They are easy to keep, I feed them every few day's. I get the best colors when they are in the sand. I have 175watt metal halides with t5's.

baseballman 25 · May 7, 2009

They are to awesome to resist.lol.

bushh23 · May 7, 2009

They will change your life for the worse! But they are cool to watch grow and change colors!

Hypertek99 · May 7, 2009

If your rich go for it. Otherwise stay away from them!! Especially if you have a wife or gf. haha They are easy to take care of. Low light and about med flow. You can feed them if they put out tentacles.

baseballman 25 · May 7, 2009

How fast do chalices grow?I heard slow,and of course based on the chalice that will vary,but what would you guys say?

mylittlejade · May 7, 2009

Some grow good for me, and some grow slow. I feed them every couple of day's, and so far I have had good result's on all of mine. Hypertek99 could not hit the nail on the head better (Especially if you have a wife or gf) watch out if you do.

talon4x4 · May 7, 2009

I think the speed at which they grow definitely varies. I have 5 different chalices. 1 of them has double in size in about 8 months (started around 3" now easily 6"). I have a watermelon that was half the size of my pinkie nail and no eyes, now its almost the size of a quarter and has 5 eyes (about 5 months). Got a multicolor green with orange eyes the same day and it hasn't grown much at all. I have a bright pink/black one that has grown maybe 1" and a multi-colored purple with green eyes that has grown about 2" got them both about 1 year ago.

I have them all in the sand except for the watermelon. The guy I bought it from had his colony up top so that's were I have mine. I don't spot feed any of them they just get whatever makes it to them when I feed the tank.

For lighting I have 2x250W MH (Hamilton 12k) with an IceCap electronic ballast and Sunpaq 2x96W dual-actinics.

Just be careful that no other coral can fall onto them. They are very unforgiving to anything that touches them.