💙🔥 Echinophyllia sp. “Blue Ember Chalice” – CUT TO ORDER
Deep Blue Chalice with Glowing Orange Mouths | Freshly Cut Frags from Mother Colony
🔹 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.
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: CUT TO ORDER – Freshly Cut Frag
🧬 Overview
The Echinophyllia “Blue Ember Chalice” is a striking chalice coral known for its deep blue tissue and glowing orange mouths. Its beautiful plating growth form gradually spreads 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.
Our CUT TO ORDER option allows you to acquire a freshly cut fragment directly from our carefully maintained mother colony.
Each frag is individually selected and cut from the mother colony after your order is placed, ensuring you receive a genuine piece of this exceptional colour morph.
✂️ CUT TO ORDER – Important Information
• Frags are freshly cut from the mother colony shown in the photographs.
• The photographs represent the mother colony, not the exact frag you will receive.
• Each fragment is unique, and its shape, number of mouths and colour distribution may vary depending on the cutting area.
• Frags are allowed an appropriate recovery period before shipping to ensure healthy tissue and minimise transport stress.
• Shipping will be arranged once the frag has recovered sufficiently from cutting.
Selected for:
• Deep sapphire-blue base coloration
• Bright glowing orange mouths
• Healthy mother colony with active growth edges
• Beautiful plating chalice growth structure
• Excellent fluorescence under reef LED lighting
🍽️ Care & Feeding
Chalice corals can benefit from occasional targeted feeding to support healthy growth and tissue development.
Recommended feeding 1–2× weekly:
• Mysis shrimp or finely chopped seafood
• Reef Roids or powdered coral foods
• Target feeding with reduced flow
Allow freshly cut fragments to recover and show a normal feeding response before introducing targeted feeding.
📈 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 your Blue Ember Chalice frag in the lower to mid areas of the aquascape, where moderate lighting and gentle, indirect flow allow it to settle and develop naturally.
Start with lower lighting after introduction and gradually acclimate the frag to its final position.
Allow sufficient spacing from neighbouring corals, as Echinophyllia can extend sweeper tentacles during nighttime feeding.
💙🔥 Echinophyllia “Blue Ember Chalice” – CUT TO ORDER
Deep ocean-blue tissue with glowing ember-orange mouths.
Freshly cut from our mother colony, carefully recovered and prepared for its new reef. An exceptional chalice for collectors looking to grow their own vibrant blue-and-orange showpiece.