Hard and Soft Corals
Brain Coral
Favites abdita
Photo: Stickpen · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature24–27 °C
- pH8.1–8.4
- Adult size30 cm
- Difficulty★★☆☆☆
- WaterMarine
- Reef safeYes
Full profile
- Type
- LPS hard coral
- Family
- Merulinidae
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific and Red Sea
- Size
- 10–30 cm (colony)
- Temperature
- 24 – 27°C
- pH
- 8.1 – 8.4
- Salinity
- 1.024 – 1.026
- Ca / KH / Mg
- 400–450 / 7–9 / 1250–1350
- Difficulty
- ★★☆☆☆
- Light
- average
- Current
- average
- Aggressiveness
- High (sweeping tentacles)
- Feeding
- photosynthesis; nocturnal feeding on mysis
- Reef Safe
- ✅ Yes
Notes: A honeycomb-shaped colony with corallites that share walls and come in a wide variety of colors. At night, it extends sweeping tentacles that harm its neighbors.
