Hard and Soft Corals
Tongue Coral
Herpolitha limax
Photo: Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature24–27 °C
- pH8.1–8.4
- Adult size50 cm
- Difficulty★★☆☆☆
- WaterMarine
- Reef safeYes
Full profile
- Type
- LPS hard coral
- Family
- Fungiidae
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific and Red Sea
- Size
- 20 – 50 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
- average
- Current
- low – medium
- Aggressiveness
- average
- Feeding
- photosynthesis
- Reef Safe
- ✅ Yes
Notes: Elongated free-living coral with a central groove, resembling a tongue. Found on sand.
