How difficult is it to keep Oxypora?

Intermediate. This is an intermediate-level species. Some prior experience and knowledge of environmental management are recommended.

What is the ideal temperature for Oxypora?

The ideal temperature for Oxypora is 24〜26℃. Avoid sudden temperature changes and maintain a stable environment.

How large does Oxypora get?

Oxypora typically reaches Colonies seldom more than 30 cm across as an adult. Size may vary depending on care conditions and individual genetics.

What is the typical price for Oxypora?

The price of Oxypora varies significantly depending on variety, size, and individual quality. Check our market price page for the latest pricing information.

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Oxypora

Q: What should I feed Oxypora?

Oxypora feeds on: Mainly nutrition from symbiotic zooxanthellae, supplemented with fine to small particulate coral foods offered at night.. Aim for a balanced diet with appropriate feeding frequency.

Intermediate

Oxypora lacera

A lobophylliid reef coral that spreads as thin plates. Known as the ragged chalice coral, its plates are perforated and spiny on the underside, and most colonies are greyish brown with red or green oral discs.

Difficulty

Intermediate

Temperature

24〜26℃

Size

Colonies seldom more than 30 cm across

Diet

Mainly nutrition from symbiotic zooxanthellae, supplemented with fine to small particulate coral foods offered at night.

About

Oxypora lacera, the ragged chalice coral or porous lettuce coral, is a large-polyp lobophylliid stony coral of the western Indo-Pacific. Colonies can be encrusting, plate-like or lumpy, and the form often varies within a single colony. On thin laminar plates a few millimetres thick the corallites are delicate and about 5 mm across; near the point of attachment the coral is thicker and the corallites coarser. Septa-costae run between the corallites and bear spines, the underside of the plates is spiny, and the plates are perforated. Colonies are greyish brown or grey, sometimes tinged green, and the oral discs may be red or green. They seldom exceed 30 cm across. The range runs from the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to Japan, the South China Sea and eastern, northern and western Australia, on sheltered reef slopes down to about 30 m. The IUCN rates it Least Concern, and as a scleractinian it is on CITES Appendix II.

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