Hard and Soft Corals
Leather Fingers
Sinularia flexibilis
Also called: Sclerophytum flexibile
Photo: Nhobgood Nick Hobgood · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature23–28 °C
- pH8–8.4
- Adult size50 cm
- Difficulty★☆☆☆☆
- WaterMarine
- Reef safeYes
Full profile
- Type
- Soft coral
- Family
- Sarcophytidae
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific
- Size
- 20 – 50 cm
- Temperature
- 23 – 28°C
- pH
- 8.0 – 8.4
- Salinity
- 1.023 – 1.026
- Ca / KH / Mg
- marine standard
- Difficulty
- ★☆☆☆☆
- Light
- medium
- Current
- medium
- Aggressiveness
- medium (allelopathy; use activated carbon)
- Feeding
- photosynthesis
- Reef Safe
- ✅ Yes
Notes: Thin, flexible branches that sway with the current. Hardy and fast-growing. Like other leather corals, it sometimes closes up for a few days to shed a layer of skin.
