Diaseris Plate Coral

Cycloseris (Diaseris) sp.

Care Level	Easy — great beginner LPS
Lighting	Low to moderate
Water Flow	Low to moderate
Placement	Sand bed
Aggression	Peaceful
Coloration	Green, orange, pink small discs

Overview

The Diaseris Plate Coral (a small Cycloseris fungiid) is a tiny, free-living plate coral that naturally splits itself into pie-slice-shaped wedges to reproduce — so a single coral often becomes a little cluster of plates. Hardy and colorful, it is an easy, self-propagating beginner LPS that lives loose on the sand.

Care & Placement

Place directly on the SAND BED under low-to-moderate light and flow. Being small and free-living, the wedges tumble and settle where they like. Give the group a bit of open space.

Feeding

Photosynthetic and feeds well for its size — offer small meaty foods (mysis, coral foods) once or twice a week to speed growth and the natural splitting.

Propagation

Self-propagates — it naturally fragments into wedge-shaped pieces that each grow into a new plate, so a colony multiplies on its own.

Cautions

Keep on sand. Being small, the pieces can get blown into corners or crevices in strong flow — keep flow gentle. Peaceful and hardy; one of the easiest fungiids.