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/The Best Livestock For Your Reef Aquarium:
Soft Corals of the Family Alcyoniidae,
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Sarcophyton sp. (elegans?)
These young colonies on the reef flat in Fiji and an
aquarium.
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| Sarcophyton tenuispiculatum Thomson &
Dean 1931. The Gold-Crowned Leather Coral. Common in its range in
the Indo-Pacific. A tough aquarium species that needs lots of
space, high intensity light and strong water movement. Aquarium
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| Sarcophyton trocheliophorum Marenzeller
1886, Elephant Ear Soft Coral. A large alcyoniid with symbiotic
zooxanthellae. This and fine plankton, dissolved organics are
nutritive. To two feet across. A popular aquarium species that
loses easily to stinging anemones, large polyp stony corals. Likes
bright light, moderate current. Red Sea at right, close-up and
below left, Cebu (Philippines) and Maldives images. |
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