Quarantined | Green Chalice Coral

What “Quarantined” means

Every animal sold under this listing goes through YoCamron’s Aquatics full quarantine program — treated preventively for the common pathogens, observed daily, and confirmed eating — before it goes home with you.

Most livestock losses in this hobby aren’t bad luck. They’re pathogens that arrive with a new animal — ich, velvet, gill and body flukes, internal parasites — and stay invisible for the first 1–2 weeks while the animal is stressed from shipping. By the time you can see the problem, it’s in your display tank, and every animal you own is in the fight. Quarantine exists to run out that clock in our tanks instead of yours.

Our process

• Dedicated quarantine systems, separate from our display and sale tanks.
• Preventive treatment for the pathogens that actually kill new arrivals, instead of waiting for symptoms.
• Daily observation — breathing rate, body condition, behavior — so problems get caught while they’re still small.
• Feeding confirmation. Nothing goes home until it’s eating in front of us. An animal that eats is an animal that travels well.

Quarantined to order

Nothing we sell online is pre-quarantined and waiting on a shelf. Every quarantined animal is quarantined to order — your purchase starts the process, and the clock starts the day your animal reaches our facility.

For a saltwater invertebrate like this one, plan on up to 76 days before it goes home.

Add up to two more weeks in front of that. If we do not already have the animal in-house, sourcing it is the first step — and that time sits on top of the window above.

This is not a rush purchase, and it can’t be turned into one — the entire value of quarantine is time. If you need your livestock by a particular date, contact us before you order and we’ll schedule the arrival around it. If you need something this week, the non-quarantined listing is the honest choice. The full process — and how to decide which tier is yours — is explained in Quarantined vs Non-Quarantined.

The guarantees

• Shipped — Early AM Overnight only: 48-hour live arrival guarantee from confirmed delivery. Next Day Air (standard Overnight), 2-Day and USPS Priority carry no live arrival guarantee, on any tier.
• Local pickup or delivery: 28-day live guarantee — bring a water sample from your aquarium so we can test it before your livestock goes home with you.
• Maintenance clients: 60-day live guarantee on any livestock you buy from us, for as long as we service your aquarium on a plan of at least twice a month — weekly, every 10 days, or biweekly. Monthly plans carry 28 days. Nobody else in the trade puts that in writing.
• Sourcing: if the animal is not already in-house, add up to two more weeks in front of the window above — that applies on every tier.
• Claims: video of the sealed, unopened bag, opened on camera, with the animal on a white paper towel, inside the window.

Why quarantined is the right choice

If you have an established display tank, the math is simple: the premium on a quarantined animal is small next to the cost of treating — or losing — everything already in your tank. It also means you can skip running a hospital tank at home, which done properly is its own aquarium, its own months of patience, and its own chance to get something wrong.

The honest caveat: many of these species are also available from us non-quarantined for less. Those carry a 1-hour live arrival window on Early AM Overnight — or 24 hours on local pickup or delivery with a tested water sample — and no refunds, returns, or credits beyond that. There is also a middle rung: the Lightly Medicated listing gets one short prophylactic course and is covered for 24 hours on Early AM Overnight, or 7 days on local pickup or delivery with a tested water sample. Next Day Air (standard Overnight), 2-Day and USPS Priority carry no live arrival guarantee, on any tier. If you already run a proper quarantine setup at home, that’s a fair trade and you should take it. If you don’t, this listing is the right one. (You’ll sometimes see “quarantined” abbreviated as QT — same thing.)

Chalice corals (Echinophyllia sp. / Echinopora sp.) grow as flat, plating or cup-shaped colonies that encrust across rock in a way that shows off an almost painted-looking surface pattern — irregular calices, contrasting corallite centers, and color combinations that look deliberately artistic rather than biological. They’re prized specifically for how much visual texture and patterning they pack into a slow-growing, relatively low-maintenance package.

Moderate light works best for chalice corals, and this runs against the usual “more light is better” instinct reef keepers tend to develop. Too much intensity — especially from a newly upgraded LED running at full power — causes bleaching and color loss, not improved growth. Many of the most dramatically colored chalice morphs look their best at 80–150 µmol PAR, which is significantly lower than what you’d run for SPS. Mid to lower tank placement suits them well.

Direct high flow is also counterproductive — chalice corals want gentle, indirect water movement that removes waste from the surface without pummeling the tissue. Give it space to encrust outward without running into neighbors, and it’ll reward patience with one of the more strikingly patterned corals in the tank.

Scientific name: Echinophyllia sp. / Echinopora sp. (chalice coral complex)
Origin: Indo-Pacific — deeper, lower-light reef zones and sheltered walls at 5–30m depth
Water parameters: Temp 74–82°F · Salinity 1.023–1.026 · pH 8.1–8.4 · Alkalinity 8–11 dKH · Calcium 380–450 ppm
Lighting: Low to moderate — 50–150 µmol PAR; mid to bottom tank placement
Flow: Low to gentle indirect flow; direct high flow stresses tissue
Tank requirements: 30+ gal; mid to lower tank placement with clearance for encrusting growth
Diet: Photosynthetic; target-feed meaty foods occasionally to support growth
Husbandry note: If a chalice starts losing color or developing pale patches, the first thing to check is lighting intensity, not water chemistry. Chalice bleaching from excess light is one of the more common — and avoidable — mistakes in LPS keeping.