A75 - Favia

Favia:

Quick Stats:

-          Lighting: Low to Medium

-          Flow:  Low to Medium

-          Placement: Bottom to Middle

-          Feeding: Photosynthetic but do accept food

-          Aggressiveness: Moderate

Characteristics: Colonies are round and brain shaped and typically grow by encrusting; with the corallites themselves having a round craterlike shape with distinct and raised ridges. The corallites don’t share common walls between themselves and as such can be differentiated from other similar looking corals such as Favites sp. and Goniastrea sp.

Colour: The corallites are usually two toned with green, cream, brown colours with the occasional red and orange on the walls and typically green, orange or red mouths.

Lighting: Favia typically thrive in low to medium lighting from around 50 – 150 PAR. They tend to be pretty consistent in their colouration under different lighting.

Flow: Favia appreciates low to medium flow. Enough flow to keep detritus and debris from settling between and in their polyps but not too much that the tissue is withdrawn and stuck close to the skeleton.

Placement: Most specimens can be placed on the substrate, as long as they don’t get covered by sand. They can also be placed on the rockwork towards the middle or bottom of the tank.  Make sure to leave a decent amount of space between them and other corals as they can send out sweeper tentacles which can harm other corals.

Feeding: Favia are photosynthetic and can survive without being fed, but a well-fed specimen will appear fuller and more vibrant. They accept anything from particulate and powder sized foods to full mysid shrimp sized foods. When in feeding mode tentacles will emerge from the mouth which will indicate that the coral is ready to accept feeding.