ORA MIMF Mint Eye Favites 3-4 heads

About the ORA MIMF Mint Eye Favites

Care Level: Easy
Temperament: Peaceful
Reef Safe: Yes
Diet: Filter Feeder
Minimum Tank Size: 10 Gallons
Placement: All
Lighting: Low to High
Waterflow: Moderate

Bursting with minty intensity from each eye of this Favite, this dynamic coral can dramatically improve a variety of areas of the aquarium rockscape. From tight, hidden crevices to exposed, sandy flats, Favites are a tough group of LPS corals that are great for beginners. At night, each large colorful polyp will open up and extend hungry tentacles that catch small floating particles of food. While target feeding is optional, they tend to grow faster with a feed of assorted foods appropriate for large polyp stonies. As with all LPS corals, careful maintenance of calcium, alkalinity and magnesium are important.

These coral frags are well encrusted to the base on which they are grown. They are fully matured as individual coral colonies. Designed to be grown-out in the home aquarium, they range in size from 2-4 inches, and are mounted on 1/2″ inch diameter plastic plugs. These frags are truly aquacultured specimens, 6 or 7 generations removed from the original wild colonies. No tissue or skeleton of wild brood-stock corals remain.

The advanced quality control methods used, ensure only problem-free specimens are sold. These corals are grown in a greenhouse culture facility in Florida and/or the Marshall Islands. They are under shaded sunlight, complemented by 250 Watt, 10,000K double-ended HQI Metal Halide lights. They are fully ready to be acclimated to aquarium light, water and flow conditions. They are grown in natural seawater so proper acclimation to artificial saltwater is recommended.

Frags grown on plastic plugs can be mounted in a number of different ways. Many hobbyists just place the plug between pieces of live rock. Another method is to drill a 1/2″ diameter hole in the rock and simply place the plug in the hole. This method can be used to mount the coral at different angles. Some aquarists simply snap the coral off the plug and use epoxy to mount it to the rock.