🐉💎 Dragon Crown Favites
Favites complanata (XL Colony – Dragon Soul Morph)
Quick Stats
Care Level: Moderate
Temperament: Semi-aggressive
Colour Form: Intense alternating rings of golden yellow, fiery orange, and deep royal purple, arranged in a tightly packed honeycomb structure. Under actinic lighting, the colours fluorescem como brasas vivas em escamas de dragão.
Water Conditions: 24–27 °C, dKH 8–11, pH 8.0–8.4, sg 1.024–1.026
Family: Merulinidae
Lighting: Moderate to High
Supplements: Calcium, Magnesium, Trace Elements
Water Flow: Moderate
Placement: Mid-to-low rockwork with space from other corals
Overview
The Dragon Crown Favites is an XL colony of Favites complanata exhibiting the legendary Dragon Soul colouration — a high-impact coral revered for its armour-like appearance and scorching fluorescence. With densely packed polygonal corallites and deeply contrasting colours, it brings regal structure and bold luminosity to any reefscape.
A true favourite among collectors and aquascapers, it thrives as a visual anchor in mid-depth reef layouts.
Care & Feeding
This coral prefers stable water conditions and benefits from occasional direct feeding. While it hosts symbiotic zooxanthellae for energy, it responds well to supplemental nutrition like powdered coral foods, rotifers, or finely minced seafood offered once or twice a week.
Due to its semi-aggressive nature, allow space around the colony to prevent stinging neighbours.
Optimal Parameters
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Alkalinity (dKH): 8–11
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Calcium (Ca): 420–460 ppm
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Magnesium (Mg): 1250–1350 ppm
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Nitrate (NO₃): 2–10 ppm
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Phosphate (PO₄): 0.01–0.05 ppm
Placement
Position this coral on stable rockwork away from strong current and direct contact with other corals. Ideal in the middle to lower sections of the aquascape under moderate to strong lighting for full colour expression.
🐉💎 Dragon Crown Favites
A regal relic of the reef, ablaze with the soul of a dragon — built to command attention and glow with pride.