{"product_id":"trachyphyllia-open-brain-aa021-trachyphyllia-geoffroyi-1","title":"Trachyphyllia (Open Brain) AA021 | Trachyphyllia geoffroyi","description":"\u003c!-- WYSIWYG:START --\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat You Are Buying\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreen folds with orange rims and dark valleys, rounded open shape. You are buying the exact coral in the photo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- WYSIWYG:END --\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Coral\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Open Brain Coral, Trachyphyllia geoffroyi, is a large polyp stony coral, or LPS. That means it builds a hard limestone skeleton and has big, fleshy polyps. It is free living, so it does not attach to rock at all and simply rests on the sand. Its fleshy, folded valleys puff up with water through the day and shrink back when disturbed, and it rarely grows much beyond 20 cm across.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhere It Comes From\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eWild colonies are found across the Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea to New Caledonia, on sandy reef slopes, in lagoons and around continental islands, resting on soft bottoms down to about 40 metres.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCare in Your Tank\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eRest it directly on the sandbed rather than wedging it into the rockwork, where its soft underside can be torn. It prefers low to moderate light, around 40 to 100 PAR (PAR measures the light a coral can actually use), and gentle flow. Most of its energy comes from zooxanthellae, tiny algae living in its tissue that turn light into food, and it will also take small meaty foods such as mysis or reef pellets offered gently once or twice a week. Leave space around it so stronger corals cannot sting it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAim for salinity of 1.025 to 1.026, alkalinity (the water's buffering capacity) of 8 to 9 dKH, calcium of 400 to 450 ppm and magnesium of 1,250 to 1,350 ppm, with nitrate around 5 to 15 ppm and phosphate around 0.03 to 0.1 ppm. Steady readings matter more than perfect ones.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nick's Aquarium Oceanarium Terrarium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55584187842851,"sku":"AA5201","price":95.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0972\/7236\/5347\/files\/TR9120234.jpg?v=1789166948","url":"https:\/\/nicksaquariumoceanariumterrarium.com.au\/products\/trachyphyllia-open-brain-aa021-trachyphyllia-geoffroyi-1","provider":"Nicks AOT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}