Hard and Soft Corals
Sun Coral
Tubastraea faulkneri
Photo: Nhobgood Nick Hobgood · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature24–27 °C
- pH8.1–8.4
- Adult size30 cm
- Difficulty★★★★☆
- WaterMarine
- Reef safeYes
Full profile
- Type
- Non-photosynthetic stony coral
- Family
- Dendrophylliidae
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific
- Size
- 10–30 cm (colony)
- Temperature
- 24 – 27°C
- pH
- 8.1 – 8.4
- Salinity
- 1.024 – 1.026
- Ca / KH / Mg
- 400–450 / 7–9 / 1250–1350
- Difficulty
- ★★★★☆
- Light
- Low (does not need it)
- Current
- average
- Aggressiveness
- low
- Feeding
- heterotrophic: daily feeding with mysis or artemia for each polyp
- Reef Safe
- ✅ Yes
Notes: Bright orange polyps that open at night. It does not photosynthesize: it must be fed daily.
