Ultra Scoly

Description

You are buying the exact coral in the photo — an Ultra Scoly photographed under blue spectrum reef lighting. The disc is a single saturated fire-engine red across the entire surface, with the tissue broken into thousands of fine raised bubbles that catch the light and give the polyp a velvet texture rather than a flat wash. Concentric growth rings sweep around an off-center mouth, and a scatter of pale mint-blue flecks breaks up the outer margin and the mouth area. Solid single-color reds of this intensity are harder to find than multi-color rainbows and photograph exactly as they look in person. conditioned in our Key West systems, Florida under FL Aquaculture Certificate #AQ0254072.

About Scolymia (Scolymia / Homophyllia sp.)

The scoly is the classic collector LPS: a single large solitary polyp that spreads flat across the sandbed and does nothing but sit there being spectacular. They grow slowly, which is exactly why a full-size disc commands what it does — you cannot rush one to this diameter. Australian and Indonesian scolys have both tightened on collection in recent years, so Conditioned in our Key West systems pieces are increasingly the only reliable supply. This one has been grown out here in Key West, so it is already adapted to captive light and flow and inflates fully rather than sitting shrunken the way freshly imported wild pieces often do for months.

Care Guide

Low-maintenance and slow — the two things that matter are keeping light modest and feeding it directly.

• Lighting: Low to medium — PAR 50–150. Reds hold best under moderate blue-heavy light; high PAR will pale the color.
• Flow: Low to moderate — gentle indirect flow so nothing settles on the disc.
• Placement: Sandbed or lower rockwork, flat and level with nothing overhanging it.
• Feeding: High — meaty foods. Target-feed mysis or a small piece of krill to the mouth two or three times a week.
• Aggression: Semi — extends feeder tentacles at night, so give it a few inches of clearance.
• Water Parameters: Temp 76–78°F, salinity 1.025–1.026, Alk 8–9 dKH, Ca 420–440, Mg 1300–1400. Stability matters more than exact numbers.

Ships UPS Overnight every Tuesday and Wednesday from Key West, Florida. Packed with insulated box and heat or cold pack appropriate for current conditions. Specimen is carefully secured to prevent movement during transit.

Placement: Sandbed or lower rockwork — flat, level, and clear of overhanging neighbors.

Not sure how to keep it? See the large polyp stony corals in our Coral Field Guide — ID notes, PAR, flow, placement and aggression, next to the corals people mistake them for.

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