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Corals
Toadstool Leather Coral
Sarcophyton spp.
Key facts
- Temperature23–27 °C
- pH8.1–8.4
- Adult size30 cm
- Difficulty★★☆☆☆
- WaterMarine
- Reef safeYes
Full profile
- Type
- Soft Coral (Alcyonacea)
- Family
- Alcyoniidae
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific
- Size
- 5–30 cm in diameter
- Temperature
- 23 – 27°C
- pH
- 8.1 – 8.4
- Salinity
- 1.023 – 1.026
- Ca / KH / Mg
- marine standard
- Difficulty
- ★★☆☆☆
- Light
- medium–high (PAR 100–200)
- Current
- average
- Aggressiveness
- medium–high (allelopathy: releases terpenoids that inhibit other corals)
- Feeding
- primarily photosynthesis
- Reef Safe
- ✅ Yes (with sufficient space)
Notes: Shaped like a giant mushroom. Releases terpenoids that may inhibit the growth of nearby corals. Use activated carbon to counteract this. Periodically, the coral “closes up” and becomes covered in mucus, which it later sheds: this is normal behavior.
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