Space Invader Chalice.

Space Invader Chalice

Space Invader Chalice earns its name with a genuinely otherworldly texture — a bumpy, almost bubbled green surface scattered with small orange-gold dots that look like little eyes peering out. It’s one of the more unusual-looking chalices going, leaning into texture and pattern as much as colour, and it holds attention precisely because it doesn’t look quite like anything else in a typical zoa or LPS garden.

Chalice corals grow slowly but steadily once settled, encrusting outward over time, and like other chalices this one extends short sweeper tentacles at night to catch food — worth giving it a little breathing room from its neighbours.

Care basics

• Lighting: Low to moderate. Chalices can bleach under overly intense light, so this one does best lower in the tank.
• Flow: Low to moderate, indirect. Strong direct flow can damage the tissue.
• Water chemistry: Stable calcium, alkalinity and magnesium matter more than chasing exact numbers. Temperature 25°C, salinity 35ppt, alkalinity 8–9dKH.
• Feeding: Not required, but it will take fine coral foods if offered.
• Placement: Give it space from neighbouring corals due to its sweeper tentacles.

Supplied as a 3cm frag on a plug.