💛🩵🪸 Catalaphyllia jardinei – Shop Propagated – WYSIWYG
Pale Yellow Elegance with Blue Tips – Size S
🔹 Quick Stats
Care Level: Moderate
Temperament: Semi-aggressive (long sweeper tentacles)
Colour Form: Soft pale yellow tentacles with contrasting blue-tinted tips, creating a delicate pastel appearance. Under blue/actinic lighting, the yellow tones become more fluorescent while the blue tips provide a distinctive cool-toned contrast.
Size: S
Origin: Shop Propagated
Water Conditions: 24–26 °C, dKH 7.5–8.5, pH 8.0–8.4, sg 1.024–1.026
Family: Euphylliidae
Lighting: Low to Moderate (PAR 50–120)
Water Flow: Low to Moderate, indirect (gentle sway)
Placement: Sandbed / Low reef
Type: WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
🧬 Overview
This shop-propagated Catalaphyllia jardinei features a beautiful combination of pale yellow coloration and subtle blue-tipped tentacles. Rather than an intensely saturated morph, this specimen stands out through its softer pastel tones and elegant colour contrast.
Under actinic lighting, the pale yellow tentacles develop an attractive fluorescent glow while the blue tips become increasingly visible, giving the coral a refined two-tone appearance.
Being a shop-propagated specimen, it has been grown and maintained under controlled aquarium conditions, making it an excellent choice for reef keepers looking for an aquacultured Elegance coral with distinctive coloration.
🧾 WYSIWYG
You will receive the exact specimen shown in the photo.
Selected for:
• Pale yellow coloration
• Contrasting blue-tinted tentacle tips
• Attractive fluorescence under actinic lighting
• Shop-propagated specimen
• Compact Size S specimen
• Elegant pastel appearance
🍽️ Care & Feeding
Elegance corals benefit from both photosynthesis and occasional feeding.
Recommended feeding occasionally:
• Mysis shrimp or small meaty foods
• LPS pellets
• Target feeding to support growth and tissue health
📈 Optimal Parameters
Parameter | Ideal Range
Alkalinity (dKH) | 7.5–8.5
Calcium (Ca) | 420–450 ppm
Magnesium (Mg) | 1300–1400 ppm
Nitrate (NO₃) | 5–15 ppm
Phosphate (PO₄) | 0.03–0.10 ppm
📍 Placement
Best placed on the sandbed or low rockwork in an area with gentle, indirect flow. Allow sufficient space around the coral as its tentacles can extend significantly and may sting neighbouring corals.
💛🩵 Catalaphyllia jardinei – Shop Propagated – WYSIWYG
Soft pale yellow, delicate blue tips and graceful movement — a compact aquacultured Elegance with a beautiful pastel contrast.