Yellow Polyps

Parazoanthus gracilis

Care Level	Easy
Lighting	Low to moderate
Water Flow	Moderate
Placement	Low to mid rock
Aggression	Peaceful
Coloration	Bright yellow (occasionally gold)

Overview

Yellow Polyps are a hardy colonial coral that spreads a cluster of tall, bright yellow, tentacled polyps across the rock. Cheerful, inexpensive and easy, they are a classic beginner coral that adds a pop of sunny color and gentle movement to the reef.

Care & Placement

Undemanding under low-to-moderate light and moderate flow. Place them low-to-mid on the rockwork, where they attach to hard substrate and slowly spread into an attractive colony. Give them a little room, as they gradually multiply across nearby rock.

Feeding

Photosynthetic, but enthusiastic feeders — target-feed small meaty foods (mysis, brine, fine chopped seafood, coral foods) and they will grow and divide faster.

Propagation

Easy — as the colony spreads onto rubble, snip or separate a piece of rock carrying several polyps and relocate it.

Cautions

Peaceful, but can slowly overgrow adjacent corals in ideal conditions — give them their own patch of rock.