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Bizarro Cyphastrea Live Aquaculture SPS Coral

$31.95 $39.95

Bizarro Cyphastrea – 1.5"+ Aquacultured SPS Coral | coralSLover

Classification: Beginner-Friendly SPS Coral

Why it’s beginner-friendly: Cyphastrea corals are among the most forgiving small-polyp stony (SPS) species. They thrive in a wide range of lighting and water flow conditions, adapt well to varying nutrient levels, and do not require the intense light or pristine parameters demanded by Acropora or Montipora. Their slow, steady encrusting growth also makes them easy to manage and ideal for aquarists transitioning from soft or LPS corals to SPS.

Add intense color and character to your reef tank with the Bizarro Cyphastrea, one of the most striking encrusting SPS corals available. Featuring a rich purple base covered in bright yellow polyps with glowing orange centers, this coral transforms under actinic or blue LED lighting into a vivid spectacle of fluorescence.

At coralSLover Aquaculture, every Bizarro Cyphastrea frag is grown in the USA from a small, hand-selected cutting within our indoor recirculating aquaculture systems. Each frag grows naturally for months until fully healed, ensuring a hardy, tank-ready coral—not a freshly cut piece.

When you receive your 1.5"+ frag, its thin, encrusting profile is a hallmark of true aquaculture. As it matures, it thickens and gains sculptural texture, forming a living canvas of color and growth. Over time, your frag will transform from a flat encrusting mat into a dynamic mini-colony with layered contours and depth.

Unlike wild-harvested specimens, our aquacultured corals are sustainably propagated, disease-free, and environmentally responsible—a long-term addition to your reef, not just a temporary decoration.

Great For:
Reef hobbyists seeking a vibrant, low-maintenance SPS coral with dramatic color contrast. Perfect for those exploring SPS for the first time or looking to expand a mixed reef.

Free shipping when qualified.

Bizarro Cyphastrea – 1.5"+ Aquacultured SPS Coral | coralSLover

Classification: Beginner-Friendly SPS Coral

Why it’s beginner-friendly: Cyphastrea corals are among the most forgiving small-polyp stony (SPS) species. They thrive in a wide range of lighting and water flow conditions, adapt well to varying nutrient levels, and do not require the intense light or pristine parameters demanded by Acropora or Montipora. Their slow, steady encrusting growth also makes them easy to manage and ideal for aquarists transitioning from soft or LPS corals to SPS.

Add intense color and character to your reef tank with the Bizarro Cyphastrea, one of the most striking encrusting SPS corals available. Featuring a rich purple base covered in bright yellow polyps with glowing orange centers, this coral transforms under actinic or blue LED lighting into a vivid spectacle of fluorescence.

At coralSLover Aquaculture, every Bizarro Cyphastrea frag is grown in the USA from a small, hand-selected cutting within our indoor recirculating aquaculture systems. Each frag grows naturally for months until fully healed, ensuring a hardy, tank-ready coral—not a freshly cut piece.

When you receive your 1.5"+ frag, its thin, encrusting profile is a hallmark of true aquaculture. As it matures, it thickens and gains sculptural texture, forming a living canvas of color and growth. Over time, your frag will transform from a flat encrusting mat into a dynamic mini-colony with layered contours and depth.

Unlike wild-harvested specimens, our aquacultured corals are sustainably propagated, disease-free, and environmentally responsible—a long-term addition to your reef, not just a temporary decoration.

Great For:
Reef hobbyists seeking a vibrant, low-maintenance SPS coral with dramatic color contrast. Perfect for those exploring SPS for the first time or looking to expand a mixed reef.

Free shipping when qualified.

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Information

Bizarro Cyphastrea Coral is easy to keep and grows well in most reef aquariums. They are a great choice for adding a splash of color to lower flow, lower light areas of your reef aquarium.

Lighting

If there is one coral you do not want to put in strong light or even moderate light to begin with it is a Cyphastrea because it takes a long time for them to adjust to high intensity light. We recommend lighting intensity under 100 PAR to start and if you want to move them into higher light conditions, do so very slowly. There are not a lot of benefits to giving this coral an over-abundance of light and it introduces substantial risk of overexposure. When in doubt, go with dimmer light and if you want to try and acclimate them to a brighter area of the tank do so slowly, and be prepared to move it back to shadier areas at the first signs of trouble for example if it starts to bleach or the polyps remain tightly closed.

Water Flow

They require a moderate, indirect flow to ensure that no detritus builds up on their body. As they grow however their shape can become more of a detritus trap and you may have to change things up to keep them clean. If the detritus is allowed to build up it will over time kill the coral underneath.

Feeding

Although symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae hosted within them supply most of their nutritional requirements through photosynthesis they do benefit from supplemental feedings of Oyster-Feast, mysis shrimp, or finely chopped meaty foods.