What IS a chalice?

[paintballer768]

I see their in the LPS so they must be that but like what are they? Ive never really seen one before and I dont understand them. Do they encrust? Wheres the polyps on there? I just dont understand haha

 

[Nate82]

to me they look alot like SPS similar to monti caps but alot cooler looking

 

[GMaquarium]

Echinophilia

 

[Nate82]

you and your smart latin words g... ha that doesnt help at all

 

[paintballer768]

How do you feed them? Are they like caps in the sense they make their own skeleton?

 

[oceanparadise1]

Yes, you dont really need to feed them, every now and then i blast mine with some spot feeding, IMO thou they are pretty slow growers

 

[jonbar1]

Just imagine them as a bigger proportioned monti. The "eyes" are the polyps and at night most of them show their tentacles coming from these eyes. I find mine get really upset if I don't feed at least once a week, and the easiest time to feed is at night when the tentacles are out.

 

[oceanparadise1]

Just imagine them as a bigger proportioned monti. The "eyes" are the polyps and at night most of them show their tentacles coming from these eyes. I find mine get really upset if I don't feed at least once a week, and the easiest time to feed is at night when the tentacles are out.

+1:nike:

 

[reefsandrotts]

chalice

Here are 2 chalice I have the top one the green is the "EYE" (mouth)
THe bottom the red circles are the eye/mouth I have many more chalice but had these pics handy they are becoming my favorite coral.Mine grow fast enough to frag almost on a bi -monthly basis

 

[oceanparadise1]

what is that red one called?

 

[paintballer768]

Those seem like some very weird corals, from how they eat and all that hahah.

 

[oceanparadise1]

they are but very cool as well i had a green one it was awsome i traded it away and the guy killed it lol

 

[reefsandrotts]

what is that red one called?

The red one is a ATL tiger eye.Grows like a weed

 

[oceanparadise1]

Nice man when u want to frag LMK im interested

 

[reefsandrotts]

Nice man when u want to frag LMK im interested

Which one?
The top is an ATL alien eye,the red tiger or the regular alien eye?

 

[oceanparadise1]

the red one

 

[reefingbuddha]

here is my red chalice, its been growing very nicely lately, updated pictures will follow shortly.

 

[oceanparadise1]

that is a sweet pic and even better coral nice man!

 

[reefingbuddha]

its doubled in size and encrusted on all sides now, a happy coral and low maintenance IMO.

Thanks!

 

[paintballer768]

They look very cool. I have just more ?'s. They do encrust the rocks right? Can they make their own skeleton as well? And how hard are these to keep? Like SPS standards or LPS standards?