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Related FAQs: Soft Corals of the Family
Alcyoniidae, Alcyoniids 2, Alcyoniids
3, Alcyoniids 4,
Alcyoniid ID,
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Alcyoniid Feeding,
Alcyoniid Behavior, Alcyoniid Health,
Alcyoniid Disease
2, Alcyoniid
Disease 3, Alcyoniid Disease 4,
Alcyoniid Disease 5,
Alcyoniid Disease 6,
Alcyoniid Disease 7,
Alcyoniid Disease 8, Alcyoniid Disease 9,
Alcyoniid Health 10,
Alcyoniid Disease 11, Alcyoniid Health 12, &
Alcyoniid Propagation,
Soft Coral Propagation, Soft
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Related Articles: Soft Corals, Order Alcyonacea,
/The Best Livestock For Your Reef Aquarium:
Soft Corals of the Family Alcyoniidae, pt. 1
Part. 2
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By Bob Fenner |
Sarcophyton
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Most of the commonly offered species require strong water movement, good
lighting, frequent water changes, excellent skimming... and occasional vitamin
soaked faux plankton feeding to excel.
Genus Alcyonium: Dead Man's Fingers, Hand Corals.
| Alcyonium sp. Indo-Pacific Sea Hand. to about
six inches. Needs dim light, to be fed planktonic food at night. Looks
like a lump by day, with enlargement, extension of elongated, clear polyps
by night. Two pix from Fiji at night. |
 
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Genus Cladiella: Cauliflower, Tree Leather Coral
| Cladiella sp. Common, but never abundant where found
in the Indo-Pacific. Not as easily kept as the more common Alcyoniids, not
easily fragment reproduced. Notable for their capacity to change color
quickly when touched. Right; a colony in Fiji. Below: The same
"Normal" and "touched" colony off of Queensland,
Australia. |
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| Cladiella sp. Knobby lobes on stalks that are low,
hard to make out. Small, uniform polyps can quickly withdraw into the
surface. |
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| Cladiella pachyclados, Red
Sea close-up by Diana Fenner. |
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Genus Lobophytum Marenzeller 1886: Finger Leather, Soft Coral
| Lobophytum spp. Common throughout its range in the
Indo-Pacific. Feed via photosynthesis and plankton. Grow in folds or
finger-like projections by folding coenenchyme. Sulawesi, Fiji and
Philippines images first row below. Second row: an usually large
"patch" of colonies on the reef lip (at the top of the slope),
and two close-ups in the Red Sea. |
| Lobophytum sp. (4...). Lobed Leather Coral. Made of
several robust lobes, closely-set. Greenish to yellowish brown in color.
Melanesia. N. Sulawesi pic. |
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Genus Minabea:
| Minabea aldersladei Williams 1992.
Finger shaped colonies to two inches in height, orange to yellow in color.
Western Pacific. Two types of polyps extend during the night, covering the
colony. In Pulau Redang, Malaysia and N. Sulawesi, closed during the day. |
 
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To: Pt. 2
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