Hard and Soft Corals
Great Star Coral
Montastraea cavernosa
Photo: Autor desconocido · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature23–27 °C
- pH8.1–8.4
- Adult size80 cm
- Difficulty★★☆☆☆
- WaterMarine
- Reef safeYes
Full profile
- Type
- LPS hard coral
- Family
- Montastraeidae
- Origin
- Caribbean and Western Atlantic
- Size
- 20–80 cm (colony)
- Temperature
- 23 – 27°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
- average
- Aggressiveness
- average
- Feeding
- photosynthesis; nocturnal feeding
- Reef Safe
- ✅ Yes
Notes: Large, rounded coral polyps in fluorescent green, orange, or red. Massive Caribbean coral.
