Euphyllia Advice for Success

[Angel_V_the_reefer]

I began adding at about 3 months, all one head now 5-6 except for my NY Knicks and orange tipped frogspawn which I fragged two heads each last month. As stated above moderate light and flow. My tank runs with higher nitrates and phosphate then what was recommended above.

Wow, very puffy and healthy looking Euphyllias, props to you ! What does your maintenance look like ? Sand looks clean

 

[Angel_V_the_reefer]

Oh they are fine....not that I am recommending this but it usually what I do(lack of planning and patience lol). That system was a large shallow vat about 30"x"70. Set it up and on third day it was full of coral. Below is a more recent pic, but all these acro colonies were the first inhabitants. They were transhipped and I did lose 2 colonies in the first week but none since. The ones lost I believe was about shipping stress more than anything cause they all came in rough shape.

Healthy looking acros!

 

[kevgib67]

Wow, very puffy and healthy looking Euphyllias, props to you ! What does your maintenance look like ? Sand looks clean

Thank you, I do weekly 12.5% water changes, but what keeps my sand clean is my diamond watchman goby, 4 nassarius snails and a tiger conch. I never have to vacuum.

 

[Toob]

I waited almost two days before adding coral in my last system. It was tough but I pushed through and held out that whole time.

Same here, corals are part of the ecosystem. Why would anyone wait a year? what the heck is happening in your tank without corals while you wait? Nothing…

 

[dlish89]

Spend the money and get a hanna phos tester. The other tests don't work. I thought I had near zero phosphate, but my euphyllias were all slowly dying. Got a hanna to only discover my phosphates we're off the charts. Added some gfo to get the numbers in check and they all came back within a few days. I did lose a few heads but overall they survived.

 

[BaliReefBox]

Haha good luck! My clowns all love gonis. Seems 9 out of ten times for me they choose it over anything else including anenomes.

my stupid clowns cant leave the frag rack be

 

[ADAM]

Euphyllia [or any reef] stable parameters is the biggest key (I know that can feel like an overused term in reefing but it’s the biggest truth their is) There’s plenty of examples of happy torches, hammers, frogspawns, in every type of system from those running .2-.3 PO4 and 30-50 NO3 all the way down to “ULNS”. Let your system and maintenance routine find it’s sweet spot and run with it as long as everything’s looking happy.

Melafix Marine is my dip of choice for Euphyllia. It doesn’t seem to be nearly as harsh on the coral as others I’ve used over the years.

I have the Euphyllia Addiction too!

 

[steveschuerger]

Haha good luck! My clowns all love gonis. Seems 9 out of ten times for me they choose it over anything else including anenomes.

Gonis but they also love my duncans

 

[BaliReefBox]

Euphyllia [or any reef] stable parameters is the biggest key (I know that can feel like an overused term in reefing but it’s the biggest truth their is) There’s plenty of examples of happy torches, hammers, frogspawns, in every type of system from those running .2-.3 PO4 and 30-50 NO3 all the way down to “ULNS”. Let your system and maintenance routine find it’s sweet spot and run with it as long as everything’s looking happy.

Melafix Marine is my dip of choice for Euphyllia. It doesn’t seem to be nearly as harsh on the coral as others I’ve used over the years.

I have the Euphyllia Addiction too!

looks good i would really like to see a vid of how much flow you have in there... i have heaps and they are a rockin but seem ok... be nice to see a comprison cheers

 

[ADAM]

looks good i would really like to see a vid of how much flow you have in there... i have heaps and they are a rockin but seem ok... be nice to see a comprison cheers

If you’re on Instagram there’s tons of videos of my system on my AK_Reefs profile. Not sure how to upload vid on R2R without a YT link.
I’m a fan of the longer flowy style with torches. Sacrifice a little color vibrancy when they’re stretched out a little but I’ll take the whipping around all day!!!