Pink Lemonade Favia

Frags are well encrusted and  around 1″

The Pink Lemonade favia is a great coral for adding pink color. Very few corals have pink color making it a unique coral for the reef aquarium. Favia corals can be one of the more non aggressive of the LPS corals. Although they do have sweeper tentacles and can sting corals so take caution when placing them. Favias will grow encrusting the rock around so leave plenty of space for favias to grow out. For fast growing species, place small pieces of rubble rock around them to grow onto as a way to prune them back.

In Doc Aquarium’s custom aquarium builds, we will typically place these corals in areas where you do not want corals to grow out too much from the reef. Like on a reef wall where the reef aquascape will be close to the glass or acrylic panel.

Lighting: medium low – medium lighting 75 -250 PAR.

Flow: low to medium

Care Level: Easy – intermediate

Original Location Range: Indonesia, Coral Triangle, South Pacific

Grown in our California coral farm where we provide zero impact corals

Water chemistry: Calcium 400-450, Magnesium 1350, KH 7-9.5, pH 8.1-8.4, Nitrates .01-10, Phosphates .01-.1 salinity 1.026

Temperature Range: 74- 81 Fahrenheit

Dosing: Doc highly recommends automated dosing of Ca, Kh and other elements to provide ultimate stable water chemistry throughout the day. It is important there are minimal fluctuations especially with Kh/alkalinity. For more information on dosing and products click here.

Placement recommendations: There are a few good areas to place these corals. Try an area like and edge in front so the coral can encrust onto the reef. Keep a safe distance from other corals so it does not harm or get harmed by other corals. This coral is good to grow in vertical areas where others cannot. Another great location is on an island on the sand up close to the glass for optimal viewing. It will never grow outwards into the glass. This is a must have coral in all the Doc Aquarium custom coral reef tank builds.

Attachment: Use disposable gloves, a small flathead sculpting tool, coral glue and coral clippers. In many of our custom aquarium builds we like to use coral glue. It is recommended to try and break off as much of the disk safe enough not to damage the skeletal branch or underside of the coral. We do this by using coral bone cutters. Add a good amount of coral glue to the underside of the coral branch. Prime the reef area you wish to place the coral by smearing the glue onto the rock.  Press the coral disk onto the desired location. It does help to slightly twist, tilt back and forth the coral to help cure the glue. Press it down firmly and use your favorite sculpting tool to clean up and smooth out the excess glue. Be sure the coral is fully secure, the coral should never fall off the reef. Most frags will grow quite large so be a little generous with the glue to withstand the weight of the future coral colony growth. We find it helps using only the extra thick reef glue gel. Be sure to rub a little reef glue onto the reef section and there is enough reef glue on the coral plug to set it securely.

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