💙🔥 Echinophyllia sp. “Blue Ember Chalice”
Mother Colony – Deep Blue Chalice with Orange Mouth
🔹 Quick Stats
Care Level: Moderate
Temperament: Semi-aggressive (can extend sweeper tentacles at night)
Colour Form: The Blue Ember Chalice displays a deep sapphire to cobalt-blue base contrasted by glowing bright orange mouths. Under actinic lighting the blue tissue develops a rich fluorescent glow while the orange centres ignite into vivid ember-like highlights. Under balanced white lighting the coral reveals layered tones of ocean blue, royal blue and electric orange mouths that create a dramatic high-contrast chalice pattern.
Water Conditions: 24–26 °C, dKH 7.5–9, pH 8.0–8.4, sg 1.024–1.026
Family: Lobophylliidae
Lighting: Low to Moderate (PAR 60–120)
Water Flow: Low to Moderate, indirect flow
Placement: Lower to mid rockwork
Type: Mother Colony
🧬 Overview
The Echinophyllia “Blue Ember Chalice” is a striking chalice coral known for its deep blue tissue and glowing orange mouths. Chalice corals develop beautiful plating growth forms that gradually spread outward, creating layered structures with intricate colour patterns.
The contrast between the dark blue base and bright orange centres gives this coral a powerful visual presence, especially under blue-spectrum reef lighting where both pigments become highly fluorescent.
As a mother colony, this piece already displays strong surface coverage and defined mouths, making it ideal either as a centerpiece coral or as a future frag source for chalice propagation.
Mother Colony:
You will receive the exact colony shown in the photo.
Selected for:
• Deep sapphire-blue base coloration
• Bright glowing orange coral mouths
• Healthy tissue and active growth edges
• Strong plating chalice structure
• Excellent fluorescence under reef LED lighting
🍽️ Care & Feeding
Chalice corals benefit from occasional feeding which promotes growth and stronger colour saturation.
Recommended feeding 1–2× weekly:
• Mysis shrimp or finely chopped seafood
• Reef roids or powdered coral foods
• Target feeding with reduced flow
📈 Optimal Parameters
Parameter | Ideal Range
Alkalinity (dKH) | 7.5–9
Calcium (Ca) | 420–450 ppm
Magnesium (Mg) | 1300–1400 ppm
Nitrate (NO₃) | 5–20 ppm
Phosphate (PO₄) | 0.03–0.10 ppm
📍 Placement
Place in the lower to mid areas of the aquascape where moderate lighting and gentle flow allow the coral to expand naturally.
Allow spacing around the colony since chalice corals can extend sweeper tentacles during nighttime feeding.
💙🔥 Echinophyllia “Blue Ember Chalice”
Deep ocean-blue tissue with glowing ember-orange mouths — a powerful chalice mother colony built for collectors and future propagation.