🧡🔵🟢🪸 Catalaphyllia jardinei “Orange Tip” – WYSIWYG
Elegance Coral – Blue & Green Centre with Orange Accents
🔹 Quick Stats
Care Level: Moderate
Temperament: Semi-aggressive (long sweeper tentacles)
Colour Form: Flowing tentacles with soft orange tips surrounding a vibrant mix of blue and green oral disc centres. Under actinic lighting, the greens and blues fluoresce intensely while the orange tips glow with warm contrast, creating a layered, multi-tone effect.
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 movement)
Placement: Sandbed / Low reef
Type: WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
🧬 Overview
The Catalaphyllia jardinei “Orange Tip” is a stunning Elegance coral that combines movement, colour, and presence in a single showpiece. Its long, flowing tentacles create a soft, waving motion, while the vibrant blue and green oral disc provides a glowing central core.
The subtle orange tips add a warm highlight to the tentacles, enhancing contrast and giving the coral a unique, premium look. Under blue lighting, the centre ignites with fluorescence, while the tentacles retain a smooth, elegant flow.
This coral quickly becomes a focal point in any reef aquarium, especially when placed on the sandbed where it can fully expand and display its natural shape.
🧾 WYSIWYG
You will receive the exact specimen shown, selected for colour intensity, tentacle extension, and overall health.
Selected for:
• Blue and green fluorescent centre
• Distinct orange-tipped tentacles
• Strong polyp extension and movement
• High-impact showpiece coral
• Ideal centrepiece for sandbed placement
🍽️ Care & Feeding
Elegance corals benefit from both photosynthesis and occasional feeding.
Recommended feeding occasionally:
• Mysis shrimp or small meaty marine 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. Avoid strong direct flow and ensure adequate space from other corals due to sweeper tentacles.
🧡🔵🟢 Catalaphyllia “Orange Tip” – WYSIWYG
Graceful movement with glowing colour — a premium Elegance coral that commands attention in any reef display.
