Anemones, mushrooms, and zoanthids
Red Sea Pulsating Xenia
Heteroxenia fuscescens
Photo: Photo2222 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature23–27 °C
- pH8.1–8.4
- Adult size15 cm
- Difficulty★★☆☆☆
- WaterMarine
- Reef safeYes
Full profile
- Type
- Soft coral
- Family
- Xeniidae
- Origin
- Red Sea and Indo-Pacific
- Size
- 5 – 15 cm
- Temperature
- 23 – 27°C
- pH
- 8.1 – 8.4
- Salinity
- 1.024 – 1.026
- Ca / KH / Mg
- marine standard
- Difficulty
- ★★☆☆☆
- Light
- average
- Current
- low – medium
- Aggressiveness
- average (spreads out)
- Feeding
- photosynthesis
- Reef Safe
- ✅ Yes
Notes: Polyps that open and close rhythmically, like Xenia. Grows quickly in aquariums with some nutrients.
