🍿💛 Pop Korn Favites – Signature Coral
Favites sp. – Exclusive FreakinCorals Aquaculture
🔹 Quick Stats
Care Level: Easy to Moderate
Temperament: Semi-aggressive (short sweeper tentacles; allow some space)
Colour Form: A vibrant aquacultured Favites featuring a striking popcorn-like pattern of golden-yellow eyes surrounded by deep red to maroon ridges, sprinkled with fluorescent flecks that glow intensely under actinic lighting. The contrast between its soft neon tones and dark matrix gives it a deliciously bold, eye-catching look.
Water Conditions: 24–27 °C, dKH 8–11, pH 8.0–8.4, sg 1.024–1.026
Family: Merulinidae
Lighting: Moderate (highlights the gold fluorescence without bleaching)
Water Flow: Gentle to moderate
Placement: Mid to lower reef zones
🧬 Overview
The Pop Korn Favites is one of FreakinCorals’ exclusive aquacultured signature corals, bred in-house for resilience, fast growth, and incredible colour stability.
With its bubbly, cratered texture and shimmering yellow polyps against a rich red base, it looks like glowing popcorn scattered across a cosmic reef. A playful yet premium coral — perfect for both new hobbyists and seasoned collectors who appreciate unique, stable morphs.
Each frag comes from our exclusive aquaculture mother colony, grown in controlled systems for optimal colour, health, and adaptation to home aquariums.
🍽️ Care & Feeding
Photosynthetic but benefits from target feeding once weekly with reef roids, Coral Dust, or enriched micro foods to enhance tissue growth and maintain colour saturation.
Stable dosing of trace elements (iron, potassium, and manganese) supports the vivid gold fluorescence and coral structure.
📈 Optimal Parameters
| Parameter | Ideal Range |
|---|---|
| Alkalinity (dKH) | 8–11 |
| Calcium (Ca) | 420–460 ppm |
| Magnesium (Mg) | 1250–1350 ppm |
| Nitrate (NO₃) | 2–10 ppm |
| Phosphate (PO₄) | 0.02–0.08 ppm |
📍 Placement
Place in mid to lower areas of the reef with moderate, indirect water flow to promote full polyp extension and steady encrustation. Keep distance from aggressive neighbours to avoid tissue conflict.
🍿💛 Pop Korn Favites – Signature Coral
Grown and perfected at FreakinCorals Aquaculture — a fun, fluorescent showpiece bursting with colour, character, and irresistible reef flavour!