Hard and Soft Corals
Thick-fingered Leather Coral
Lobophytum pauciflorum
Photo: David Witherall · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature23–27 °C
- pH8–8.4
- Adult size40 cm
- Difficulty★☆☆☆☆
- WaterMarine
- Reef safeYes
Full profile
- Type
- Soft coral
- Family
- Sarcophytidae
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific
- Size
- 15 – 40 cm
- Temperature
- 23 – 27°C
- pH
- 8.0 – 8.4
- Salinity
- 1.023 – 1.026
- Ca / KH / Mg
- marine standard
- Difficulty
- ★☆☆☆☆
- Light
- medium
- Current
- medium
- Aggressiveness
- medium (allelopathy)
- Feeding
- photosynthesis
- Reef Safe
- ✅ Yes
Notes: Leathery with thick, finger-like lobes. Very hardy; releases substances that affect other corals.
