🌸❤️ Pink / Red Eye Mycedium
Mycedium sp. – Pink Body With Bright Red Eyes (Cut-to-Order Frag From Our In-Store Mother Colony)
Please note:
This coral is CUT-TO-ORDER — each frag is taken directly from our thriving in-store Mycedium mother colony, ensuring excellent colour stability and fast adaptation. Images show the colony, not the exact frag.
🔹 Quick Stats
Care Level: Moderate
Temperament: Semi-aggressive (sweeper tentacles at night)
Colour Form: A beautiful Mycedium morph featuring a smooth pink to rose body overlaid with vivid, glowing red eyes at each polyp centre. Under daylight, the coral appears soft pink with ruby accents; under actinic lighting, the pink fluoresces into a warm pastel glow while the red eyes ignite into bright neon crimson, producing a striking and elegant contrast.
Water Conditions: 24–26 °C, dKH 7.5–9, pH 8.0–8.4, sg 1.024–1.026
Family: Pectiniidae
Lighting: Moderate (PAR 70–140)
Water Flow: Moderate, indirect
Placement: Lower to mid rockwork, angled areas, or vertical faces
🧬 Overview
The Pink / Red Eye Mycedium is a premium encrusting LPS coral admired for its glowing eyes and velvety tissue texture. Propagated directly from our long-term aquarium-grown mother colony, our cut-to-order frags offer:
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consistent colour development
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fast, even plating behaviour
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excellent resilience thanks to tank adaptation
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dramatic fluorescence under blues
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a smooth, flowing growth pattern ideal for filling rock faces
This morph is perfect for adding warm, elegant colour and gentle motion to shaded or lower-light reef zones.
🍽️ Care & Feeding
Mycediums show a strong feeding response. Offer:
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powdered coral foods
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small mysis pieces
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reef pellets
1–2× weekly to accelerate growth, deepen pink tones, and maintain bright red eye pigmentation.
📈 Optimal Parameters
| Parameter | Ideal Range |
|---|---|
| Alkalinity (dKH) | 7.5–9 |
| Calcium (Ca) | 420–450 ppm |
| Magnesium (Mg) | 1250–1400 ppm |
| Nitrate (NO₃) | 5–15 ppm |
| Phosphate (PO₄) | 0.03–0.10 ppm |
📍 Placement
Place in gentle, indirect flow and moderate lighting. Mycedium grows as a plating/encrusting LPS, so provide horizontal or slightly slanted surfaces for natural spread. Allow spacing from other corals due to potential sweepers at night.
🌸❤️ Pink / Red Eye Mycedium
Soft pink tissue with bright ruby eyes — a glowing, elegant LPS showpiece, sustainably propagated from our thriving mother colony for reliable colour and strong growth.