Ice Blue Leptastrea
Ice Blue Leptastrea
Leptastrea are an LPS, even though they have smallish polyps. This leptastrea is a rarity amongst the usually reds and greens you see, with this ice cold blue and tinges of yellow and greens that flicker through, it almost gives you the chills.
Leptastrea like to encrust over surfaces/substrate, preferably they'd like to be placed low down on a rock to encrust over, additionally they can be placed on rocks mid-structure or higher up also, dealers choice really.
Leptastrea also prefer stability in their environments, so will benefit from the stable levels of Alkalinity, Calcium and Magnesium along with various other trace elements found within the oceans.
Chalices don't require direct or additional feedings besides what you already provide to the tank already, however they will happily take feeds from appropriate corals foods such as Reef Roids, Coral Dust, even LPS pellets. They will also taken frozen foods given the opportunity however its not required to maintain the coral's health.
Locally sourced from a sustainable Coral Farm and picture shown is provided by the supplier (frags may differ to image shown).
Coral Care:
Care Level - Moderate
Flow - Moderate - High
Lighting/Placement - Moderate - High (ones provided have been grown in high light)
Temperament - Aggressive (Can get along with other leptastrea but will generally sting most nearby neighbours upon contact)
Frag Size - All frags will be at least 1 inch and will be fully healed and showing growth