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Healthy Porites Coral Frags for Sale Online for Your Reef Tank

Porites is a genus of small polyp stony (SPS) corals that are indigenous to the Coral Triangle of the Indo-Pacific. Occasionally referred to as finger coral for the shape that some Porites species take as they grow into larger colonies, Porites is mostly an encrusting coral that thrives in high lighting and high flow rate environments with optimal water quality parameters. While not recommended for reefers just getting started with corals, coralheads with a bit of experience, proactive system maintenance habits and stable water quality parameters should be able to take a finger coral frag and grow it into a thriving colony with relative ease.

Porites Coral Care Guide

Experience Level

As mentioned, our Porites frags are not recommended for beginners but if you feel that your system and skillset are ready for SPS corals, Porites can be a good choice to add to your quarantine system and build your confidence with keeping SPS corals.

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:

While coralheads tend to get the best growth, coloration and polyp extension with high lighting, plan on starting out your new Porites frag(s) in an area with slightly lower lighting to allow the frag and its symbiotic zooxanthellae algae to adjust before moving it to areas with more intense lighting.

Water Flow Preferences:

Like many other SPS species, Porites prefers strong shifting, laminar flows after acclimation. You’ll want to make sure that the strong flows are not direct and sustained for too long or it can stress the coral and cause tissue loss. Rather, configure your powerheads to provide the kinds of pulsing, irregular strong flows that animate the polyps.

Placement Considerations:

Porites is not an aggressive coral but can easily be damaged by the sweeper tentacles of more aggressive species. If you place your Porites frag in an area with other non-aggressive SPS species, you should have branches reaching toward the light and healthy colonies in just a few months.

Feeding Considerations:

On their native reefs, Porites polyps extend the farthest for feeding at night, so take advantage of this and provide suitable planktonic coral foods an hour or two after your lights have gone off. How you feed depends on your schedule and feeding style but always remember that any nutrients you introduce into your system will have to be countered by additional maintenance, filtration and water quality monitoring or your water quality will suffer.

Affordable Online Porites Coral Frags from CoralFrags.com

We perform all our fragging in-house and do not sell Porites and other coral frags until they have fully healed. This is one of the many ways we provide our customers with a running start on success with coralkeeping. We’d rather develop a lasting relationship with our customers than make a quick buck by selling substandard coral frags. We want to be your go-to source for online coral frags now and in the future and the best ways to make that happen are to respect our customers and set them up for success. Thanks for looking!

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