Hard and Soft Corals
Caribbean Encrusting Coral
Erythropodium caribaeorum
Photo: Liné1 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature23–27 °C
- pH8.1–8.4
- Difficulty★☆☆☆☆
- WaterMarine
- Reef safeYes
Full profile
- Type
- Soft coral
- Family
- Anthothelidae
- Origin
- Caribbean
- Size
- covers the rock
- Temperature
- 23 – 27°C
- pH
- 8.1 – 8.4
- Salinity
- 1.023 – 1.026
- Ca / KH / Mg
- marine standard
- Difficulty
- ★☆☆☆☆
- Light
- medium
- Current
- medium
- Aggressiveness
- medium (spreads out)
- Feeding
- photosynthesis
- Reef Safe
- ✅ Yes
Notes: Known as an “encrusting gorgonian”: a brown mat from which hairy polyps emerge. It grows rapidly on rock.
