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Your Trusted Source for Healthy, Pest-Free Leptoseris Coral Frags for Sale Online

One of the many joys of having a thriving coral reef tank is discovering new coral species and interesting textures and thinking: “I think I have a great spot for that!” Leptoseris is a SPS species that inspires a lot of those “great spot” moments, as while it is available in a few different colors, each colony has an odd, wrinkly texture that contrasts well with most other coral species. In addition to the colors and texture, it also has a lined appearance that looks like too much living coral tissue scrunched over too little skeleton. Intrigued yet? We thought so! Check out our collection of Leptoseris coral frags and select one or more for your reef display.

Leptoseris Coral Care Guide

Experience Level

If you have achieved success with other SPS coral, you may be ready for another species of moderately challenging SPS coral. As you know, the scale for what is challenging to any coralhead changes over time. So, rather than base this decision solely on your skills and experience keeping corals, perhaps a better way to think about it is: “Are my system and water quality parameters stable and consistent enough to be successful with a slightly more tricky SPS species?”

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:

Leptoseris coral frags and colonies tend to prefer lighting usually found in the middle of a reef display. Not too intense like the uppermost ridges in your reef but not muted, like you might find under an arch in the rockwork. Much will depend on the type of lighting on your reef tank but initially, choose a spot somewhere in the middle of your reef and make small adjustments over time, as necessary.

Water Flow Preferences:

The symbiotic zooxanthellae algae living in the tissues of Leptoseris may not prefer strong lighting but this SPS species will do best with strong shifting, laminar flows. Watch the margins of your Leptoseris frag closely over time for tissue erosion and make sure that the flows are shifting, not sustained overlong.

Placement Considerations:

Although this coral should do well anywhere where you have moderate lighting, take care not to place it near other corals, clams and other sessile inverts that can’t get away from its sweeper tentacles at night. Watch out for small pinpoint blemishes on neighbors that often indicate stings and create a bit more space around your Lepto frag to prevent further damage.

Feeding Considerations:

As with most SPS corals, supplemental feeding with suitably sized planktonic coral foods once or twice a week will make for a healthier colony. Your best bet will be feeding at night when the colony’s mesentery filaments are on the prowl.

Beautiful Online Leptoseris Coral Frags from CoralFrags.com

If you have a great spot or two for a couple of our Leptoseris frags, you’ll be pleased to know that we check each frag we sell online on multiple occasions. This helps ensure that our customers only receive the corals they order without any of the coral pests that often go unnoticed until they cause problems. We don’t want these hitchhikers in our systems and we definitely don’t want to introduce them to our customers’ reef tanks. We encourage you to dip and properly quarantine all coral frags and other inverts anyway but we’re always watching out. Thanks for looking!

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