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Favia Corals for Sale Online in an Endless Variety of Colors

Favia corals are a favorite coral species for coralheads for a variety of reasons. They are fairly easy to care for, come in a wide range of different colors and are often one of the first corals that beginning reef hobbyists achieve success with. Common names for Favia include pineapple corals, as the polyps resemble the exterior of the fruit, and moon corals, as the cratered appearance of a Favia colony is somewhat similar to the surface of the moon. However, the common name used most often is brain coral or closed brain coral for obvious reasons. What is not so obvious is despite their lovely appearance, Favia are some of the most aggressive corals found in reef tanks today and will actively sting and kill neighboring corals and other inverts to protect their living space.

Favia Coral Care Guide

Experience Level

Our Favia coral frags are a good choice for hobbyists just getting started with corals provided their system is fully cycled, water quality parameters are stable, and they have the patience to let their new frags adapt to the new home before moving them to another location in their display.

Optimal Water Quality Parameters

Temperature: 72-78F, 22-25C
pH: 8.1-8.3
dKH: 7-11 (125-200ppm CaCO3 equivalent)
Calcium: 375-450ppm
Magnesium: 1275-1350ppm
Salinity: 35ppt
Ammonia (NH3): less than 0.1ppm
Nitrite (NO2): less than 0.2ppm
Nitrate (NO3): less than 0.2ppm
Phosphates (PO4): less than 0.03ppm

Lighting Preferences:

Favia prefer lighting in the middle of the range. After acclimation, choose a spot in the lower third of your display with moderate lighting to provide energy for the symbiotic and photosynthetic zooxanthellae algae living in the tissue. After a couple weeks, look at the turgidity and depth of color on the polyps and make small adjustments to increasingly more intense lighting.

Water Flow Preferences:

Favia coral frags and colonies also prefer flows in the medium range. On their native reefs of the Indo-Pacific, newly settled Favia larvae do best in locations where the flows are strong enough to deliver planktonic food and remove waste but not so strong that the delicate tissues of the polyps are stressed.

Placement Considerations:

Along with lighting and flow considerations, the biggest placement consideration is making sure that you provide enough room around your new Favia frag and the resulting colony. Primarily at night, Favia send out mesentery filaments or sweeper tentacles that will sting, stress and may eventually kill any and all nearby invertebrates.

Feeding Considerations:

Supplemental feeding is not mandatory but you’re likely to get better growth out of your Favia coral if you provide suitably sized coral foods once or twice a week. You can prime the feeding response by softly squirting thawed brine or mysis water near the colony. When the feeding tentacles extend, use the same pipette or baster to carefully squirt food towards the polyps and watch them eat. But if you’re going to feed, make sure to closely monitor your water chemistry!

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If you’d like to add some of our Favia frags to your collection, you can buy with confidence, as you’re getting healthy frags from healthy, professionally maintained systems. Better still, we carefully examine each coral frag we sell online at multiple stages to help ensure that our customers get the coral frags they want and none of the hitchhiking pests they don’t! It’s simple: Healthy, clean systems, with proactively maintained water quality parameters yield some of the healthiest, cleanest and most vividly colored coral frags for sale in the Internet. That’s how we operate. Thanks for looking!

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