Love the reddish orange with a spot of green in it.I acquired a trio of button scolys that I've had in my pico tank for two months now. I wanted them for exactly the same reason - they're perfect for small spaces. I have heard they are fairly aggressive so don't put them within touching distance of anything but other button scolys. They aren't miniature or dwarf scolymia, they're just visually similar with an entirely different taxonomy.
They eat well, with the big tentacles very like to classic scolymia. I've got them on the sand bed at around 130 PAR and they're nice and fluffy. I even had one partially eaten by a miscreant sexy shrimp and it regrew -very- quickly. Like, days quickly and the flesh was covering the skeleton. I was very pleasantly surprised and relieved.
- See the chomp taken out of the right bottom. It did it TWICE in two different spots before I said no more. The next pic is within the same day under blues.
The tank is only 3 gallons and this last pic was taken about a week ago. Other than the two spots that were damaged showing a little less vibrancy, the darker one has almost fully recovered.
I got one of each I guess 'common colors' red, green and the dark with orange striping. I love them.
Do you think better to buy one off a fellow reefer or LFS, or its all about what LFS and how good they are with them?
Love the colors on them, almost look like a volcano erupting! Want to get one so bad, just need a good deal.Been reefing for a long, long time and finally got my first scolymia a little over a year ago (deal too good to refuse). I now have 2. I haven’t owned a button scoly yet, but from all explanations I’ve heard, they are the same as regular scolys but smaller in size.
In my experience, they’ve been very easy to keep happy. They have a really cool feeding reaction, and I feed them often.
Here’s one of mine that I got when it was slightly larger than a frag plug (which you can see in the picture) and again now:
And eating:
Probably from a fellow reefer just because it mostlikely has been in a aquarium for some time already so it's used to that environment ( IMHO)
Always from a reefer if you can. So so many corals don't take to tank life well and do poorly after coming in
Buttons tend to be cheaper, I got mine under 100 bucks.
I negotiated for my trio of buttons for $160. I also have a real regular scolymia that cost me $200 and the prices are wild and depend primarily on where you get it from.
Button scolys can range anywhere from $40-$100+ from what I've seen so far. I think they're coming into popular trend so I've been seeing 'ultra' and 'rainbow' appended to them, but you can see the three I got are all wonderfully colorful and were all in the 50-60 range.
Consequently I do love my real scoly, it's gorgeous. It's small, about 3 inches across, so I'm hoping some of the greens and yellows I see in the outer rim will spread inwards as it grows.
The ones I’ve seen weren’t quite as colorful as their big brothers, but yours really pop.I acquired a trio of button scolys that I've had in my pico tank for two months now. I wanted them for exactly the same reason - they're perfect for small spaces. I have heard they are fairly aggressive so don't put them within touching distance of anything but other button scolys. They aren't miniature or dwarf scolymia, they're just visually similar with an entirely different taxonomy.
They eat well, with the big tentacles very like to classic scolymia. I've got them on the sand bed at around 130 PAR and they're nice and fluffy. I even had one partially eaten by a miscreant sexy shrimp and it regrew -very- quickly. Like, days quickly and the flesh was covering the skeleton. I was very pleasantly surprised and relieved.
- See the chomp taken out of the right bottom. It did it TWICE in two different spots before I said no more. The next pic is within the same day under blues.
The tank is only 3 gallons and this last pic was taken about a week ago. Other than the two spots that were damaged showing a little less vibrancy, the darker one has almost fully recovered.
I got one of each I guess 'common colors' red, green and the dark with orange striping. I love them.
Job well done!
Easy care, more forgiving that the full ones and an array of colors. Feed them mysis shrimp
