Chalice

Chalice corals for sale — Echinophyllia and friends in layered, glassy pigments, from affordable frags to full display colonies. Aquacultured and conditioned in Key West, Florida, and shipped UPS Next Day Air with a live arrival guarantee.
Aquacultured in Key West: the corals we grow are farm-raised under Florida Aquaculture Certificate #AQ0254072 — captive-grown, sustainable, and traceable, never wild-stripped or “chop-shopped.”Buying a chalice without overpaying for a photographChalice corals are the most photographed and least honestly represented corals in the hobby. Under heavy blue light almost any chalice looks spectacular; under normal reef lighting many look brown with colored eyes. Every chalice on this page is shot under the light it grew under, which is why some of them look less dramatic than what you will see elsewhere and more like what you will actually get.What to look at: the growth margin around the edge should be a clean, bright band of new tissue. A chalice with a dead, algae-covered rim is not growing. Eye color and count matter to collectors; tissue health matters to whether it lives.Chalice care, in numbersLight: 50–120 PAR. Low. Chalices are shade corals and they burn easily under SPS lighting.Flow: low and indirect.Placement: lower rock or sand shelf, and give it room. Chalices have some of the longest sweeper tentacles of any LPS and they will reach several inches at night to burn a neighbor.Feeding: chalices feed at night. Small meaty food after lights out visibly accelerates growth and color.Common problemsBleaching within days of placement. Too much light, almost every time. Chalices should be acclimated to light more carefully than any other LPS.Receding from one edge. Check for a neighbor within sweeper range before assuming disease.Questions we get askedWhy are some chalices so expensive? They encrust slowly, so a desirable morph takes a long time to produce sellable frags, and eye color does not always come through on a cut.Why livestock shipping costs what it doesA coral has to move overnight, packed warm or cold depending on the season, and UPS Next Day Air runs us roughly $30 within Florida and $45 to $75 to the rest of the lower 48. You pay $30 in state and $50 out of state, so on longer routes we are covering the difference ourselves, and at a $349 livestock subtotal we cover all of it. We ship Tuesdays and Wednesdays only, which keeps any animal from being stuck in transit over a weekend.