Hard and Soft Corals
Plate Coral
Fungia fungites
Photo: Stickpen · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature24–27 °C
- pH8.1–8.4
- Adult size25 cm
- Difficulty★★☆☆☆
- WaterMarine
- Reef safeYes
Full profile
- Type
- LPS hard coral
- Family
- Fungiidae
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific and Red Sea
- Size
- 10 – 25 cm
- 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
- medium
- Current
- low
- Aggressiveness
- medium
- Feeding
- photosynthesis; accepts small pieces of shrimp and mysis
- Reef Safe
- ✅ Yes
Notes: A solitary, free-living coral that is not attached and lives on the sand. It can move slowly and even flip itself over. Always place it on sand, never on rock.
