Hard and Soft Corals
Organ Pipe Coral
Tubipora musica
Photo: Frédéric Ducarme · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature24–27 °C
- pH8.1–8.4
- Adult size30 cm
- Difficulty★★★☆☆
- WaterMarine
- Reef safeYes
Full profile
- Type
- Soft coral (red skeleton)
- Family
- Tubiporidae
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific and Red Sea
- 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
- average
- Current
- average
- Aggressiveness
- low
- Feeding
- photosynthesis; phytoplankton
- Reef Safe
- ✅ Yes
Notes: An organ-like skeleton of red tubes, from which green or gray feathery polyps extend. It needs calcium to grow.
