The ACI Golden Girls Cyphastrea (Cyphastrea sp., cultured and lineaged by Aquatic Collection Inc.) is a bright, high-contrast encrusting Small Polyp Stony (SPS) cultivar highly regarded for its distinct metallic golden color palette. Combining a metallic gold coenosteum with contrasting star-like polyps, this designer piece offers a unique color profile within a genus traditionally dominated by blue, green, and red morphs.
Coloration: Bright metallic golden-yellow base tissue, studded with raised, glowing chartreuse-to-gold corallites and fine, contrasting pale center polyps.
Growth Pattern: Encrusting (forms a smooth, low-profile mat that sheet-grows continuously across rockwork, ceramic plugs, glass walls, and frag tiles). Sold as a frag on a 0.5 – 1 inch frag plug.
Lighting: Low to Moderate (PAR 50–125).
Water Flow: Moderate (Randomized, indirect flow to keep the smooth polyp carpet flushed clean of organic detritus).
Feeding: Micro-particulate feeder; extends fine, star-like feeder polyps continuously (especially at night) to capture liquid amino acids, rotifers, and fine particulate reef foods.
Aggressiveness: Peaceful to Semi-Aggressive (lacks long stinging sweeper tentacles, but can steadily encrust over stationary neighbors upon direct contact).
Care Level: Easy to Moderate (Exceptionally hardy and adaptable once acclimated, making it an ideal starter SPS or shade-tolerant rock filler).
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