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About Spiny Chalice
Oxypora glabra features a compact, cup-shaped skeleton with prominent radial ridges and sharp, spine-like projections along the calice edges. Coloration ranges from green, brown, orange, or pink with contrasting polyp tips.
Key facts
- Lighting Requirement
- High (250-400 PAR)
- Min tank size
- 40 gallons
- Appearance Description
- Oxypora glabra features a compact, cup-shaped skeleton with prominent radial ridges and sharp, spine-like projections along the calice edges. Coloration ranges from green, brown, orange, or pink with contrasting polyp tips.
- Water Parameters
- Temperature: 75-80°F pH: 8.1-8.3 Salinity: 1.024-1.026
- Placement Recommendation
- Middle
- Additional Notes
- Chalice coral with spiny appearance.
- Care Requirements
- • Place in middle reef zones with moderate lighting • Requires moderate water flow; avoid strong direct currents • Feed small zooplankton 2-3x weekly; photosynthetic but benefits from supplemental feeding • Maintain stable salinity (1.025-1.026), pH 8.1-8.3, temp 75-78°F • Sensitive to allelopathic compounds; maintain good water quality
- Growth Rate
- Moderate
- Care difficulty
- Hard
- Coloration
- Varied colors with spiny appearance
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific, particularly the Great Barrier Reef, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
- Feeding Needs
- Primarily photosynthetic; benefits from occasional small meaty foods (zooplankton) once weekly.
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