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Healthy, Gorgeous Lobophyllia Brain Coral Frags for Sale Online

If you have a thing for LPS corals, (we get it, we sure do) then you definitely need to consider adding one or more of our Lobo brain coral frags to your collection. It’s pretty obvious why Lobophyllia is often commonly referred to as a brain coral or open brain coral: the lobes of the polyps very much resemble the gyri and sulci (lobes and grooves) of the mammalian brain. However, for most of us, the resemblance ends there, as no one’s brain comes in as many pretty color morphs as our Lobophyllia coral frags. Concentric rings of rich colors or occasionally, just one color surround the oral disc of each polyp and watching the folds of each polyp bend and form new polyps over time is one of the many pleasures of being a reefkeeper.

Lobophyllia Coral Care Guide

Experience Level

Lobo brain coral species are fairly easy to care for, which makes this species and excellent coral for coralheads just getting started in their reefing careers. That said, you’ll want to make sure that your reef display or better yet, quarantine system, are fully cycled with stable water quality parameters before adding your new Lobo brain frags. Otherwise, you’re setting yourself, along with your new coral frags, up for failure, as even hardy beginner corals won’t tolerate poor water quality for very long.

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:

Lobo brains prefer lighting usually found in the upper-middle to highest portions of reef tanks. However, much will depend on the symbiotic zooxanthellae algae living in the tissue of this species and how much or how little they prefer. Like most other corals, after acclimation, it’s best to take the safe route and choose a spot with lighting that is a little less intense while the frag adjusts to the lighting, flow and water chemistry of your system. Start off with lighting that is too intense and it might stress and/or kill the life-giving algae and the host coral.

Water Flow Preferences:

We hold our Lobo brain frags in areas of our systems with shifting medium flows and take care not to place them in areas where they will receive strong, direct flows for too long. Currents that are too strong will stress the polyps and cause them to shrink to protect themselves.

Placement Considerations:

As we mentioned, initially you’ll want to choose a spot somewhere in the middle of your display but Lobo brains can be pretty aggressive at night, so make sure not to pace your new frags too close to other corals, clams and other critters that can’t move away from the tentacles and their stings.

Feeding Considerations:

Lobophyllia will respond well to additional feeds of brine, mysis or finely chopped fish, clam or shrimp once or twice a week but no matter how much fun it is to feed your Lobo colony, resist the temptation to overfeed it. At night, you may see the polyps dilate and expose the feeding tentacles, which is the best time to indulge them. You may also be able to prime the feeding response by softly squirting some thawed food juice near the colony. Then add the food when the polyps open fully. However, your coral will eat slower than the fish and many other inverts in your tank, so watch out for food thieves!

Vibrant, Clean and Affordable Online Lobo Brain frags from CoralFrags.com

If you’re ready to add one or more Lobophyllia frags to your collection, you have definitely come to the right place. We check each frag multiple times to ensure that it’s not harboring unwanted pests, assiduously check water chemistry values and proactively maintain all our holding systems to ensure that our clients are set up for success long before their new frags arrive in their tanks. If that sounds like the kind of online coral seller that you want to do business with, browse our collection and buy with confidence. Thanks for looking!

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