Anemones, mushrooms, and zoanthids
Zoanthus sociatus
Zoanthus sociatus
Photo: Emőke Dénes · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature24–27 °C
- pH8.1–8.4
- Difficulty★☆☆☆☆
- WaterMarine
- Reef safeYes
Full profile
- Type
- Zoanthid
- Family
- Zoanthidae
- Origin
- Caribbean
- Size
- colonies covering the rock
- Temperature
- 24 – 27°C
- pH
- 8.1 – 8.4
- Salinity
- 1.023 – 1.026
- Ca / KH / Mg
- marine standard
- Difficulty
- ★☆☆☆☆
- Light
- average
- Current
- average
- Aggressiveness
- low
- Feeding
- photosynthesis
- Reef Safe
- ✅ Yes
Notes: Small green polyps in dense colonies. One of the easiest zoanthids to care for. Contains palitoxin: wear gloves when handling it.
