
Hard and Soft Corals
Sarcophyton glaucum leather
Sarcophyton glaucum
Photo: Alexander Vasenin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature23–27 °C
- pH8–8.4
- Adult size60 cm
- Difficulty★☆☆☆☆
- WaterMarine
- Reef safeYes
Full profile
- Type
- Soft coral
- Family
- Sarcophytidae
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific and Red Sea
- Size
- 20 – 60 cm
- Temperature
- 23 – 27°C
- pH
- 8.0 – 8.4
- Salinity
- 1.023 – 1.026
- Ca / KH / Mg
- marine standard
- Difficulty
- ★☆☆☆☆
- Light
- average
- Current
- average
- Aggressiveness
- average (allelopathy)
- Feeding
- photosynthesis
- Reef Safe
- ✅ Yes
Notes: Leather mushroom coral with long polyps. Very hardy; periodically sheds a layer of skin.





