Bright Short-Polyp Encrusting Alveopora

Bright Short-Polyp Encrusting Alveopora is offered under the retail name shown in the product title.

This is an Alveopora flowerpot coral. Color, growth-form, and polyp-length terms in the title are aquarium-trade descriptors, not a verified species identification. Give the coral time to settle before judging extension or moving it repeatedly.

Care Guide

• Lighting: Medium — PAR 100–200. Acclimate gradually and watch the tissue and daily extension before increasing intensity.
• Flow: Medium, gentle and indirect. Polyps should sway freely without being folded over or pinned in one direction.
• Placement: Middle reef on stable rockwork with room to encrust. Leave open room for the colony to expand without rubbing rock or neighboring corals.
• Feeding: Fine planktonic or powdered coral food can be offered in small portions two or three times weekly. Avoid allowing food to collect on the tissue or substrate.

Keep salinity and alkalinity stable, change one variable at a time, and use sustained polyp extension as feedback. A temporarily closed flowerpot coral is a symptom to investigate, not a diagnosis by itself.

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