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Elegance Coral
Catalaphyllia jardinei
Family: Euphylliidae
📍 Indo-Pacific Reef Systems
Elegance coral was once considered easy but is now classified as demanding due to a syndrome ('elegance coral decline') that causes rapid tissue recession in many captive specimens, the cause of which is still debated. Specimens sourced from Australia's Great Barrier Reef tend to fare better than Indo-Pacific stock. It requires low light, minimal flow, and sandy substrate — placing it on rock causes tissue damage and death.
Keeping this species
- diet
- Photosynthetic; must be fed meaty foods (silversides, krill) 2–3 times weekly
- flow
- Very low, indirect
- lifespan
- Decades if conditions are correct
- lighting
- Very low (20–50 PAR)
- placement
- Sandy substrate only — never on rock
- tank size
- 40 gallons minimum
- temperament
- Long sweeper tentacles; highly aggressive toward other corals
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Water it likes
- ph
- 8.2–8.4
- calcium
- 400–450 ppm
- nitrate
- 1–5 ppm
- salinity
- 1.025–1.026 SG
- magnesium
- 1280–1380 ppm
- phosphate
- 0.03–0.06 ppm
- alkalinity
- 8–9.5 dKH
- temperature
- 73–79°F (23–26°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
79°F — 81°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Feb high)