Hard and Soft Corals
Purple Gorgonian
Antillogorgia bipinnata
Photo: Fernando Herranz Martín · GPL · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature23–27 °C
- pH8.1–8.4
- Adult size60 cm
- Difficulty★★☆☆☆
- WaterMarine
- Reef safeYes
Full profile
- Type
- Gorgonian
- Family
- Gorgoniidae
- Origin
- Caribbean and Florida
- Size
- 20 – 60 cm
- Temperature
- 23 – 27°C
- pH
- 8.1 – 8.4
- Salinity
- 1.023 – 1.026
- Ca / KH / Mg
- marine standard
- Difficulty
- ★★☆☆☆
- Light
- medium – high
- Current
- medium – high
- Aggressiveness
- low
- Feeding
- photosynthesis; phytoplankton
- Reef Safe
- ✅ Yes
Notes: Flexible, feather-like purple branches. Photosynthetic gorgonians from the Caribbean are the easiest to care for; non-photosynthetic ones, which are red or yellow in color, need to be fed daily.
