Hard and Soft Corals
Australian Scolymia
Homophyllia australis
Key facts
- Temperature23–26 °C
- pH8.1–8.4
- Adult size15 cm
- Difficulty★★☆☆☆
- WaterMarine
- Reef safeYes
Full profile
- Type
- LPS hard coral
- Family
- Lobophylliidae
- Origin
- Australia
- Size
- 8 – 15 cm
- Temperature
- 23 – 26°C
- pH
- 8.1 – 8.4
- Salinity
- 1.024 – 1.026
- Ca / KH / Mg
- 400–450 / 7–9 / 1250–1350
- Difficulty
- ★★☆☆☆
- Light
- low – medium
- Current
- low
- Aggressiveness
- average
- Feeding
- photosynthesis; accepts pieces of shrimp or mysis
- Reef Safe
- ✅ Yes
Notes: A fleshy, rounded solitary coral with spectacular colors. It was sold as Scolymia australis. Place it on the substrate with moderate lighting.
