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Related FAQs: Pocilloporids,
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Identification, Pocilloporid Behavior,
Pocilloporid Compatibility, Pocilloporid
Selection, Pocilloporid Systems,
Pocilloporid Feeding, Pocilloporid
Health, Pocilloporid
Reproduction/Propagation, & SPS
Corals, Stony/True Coral,
Coral System Set-Up, Coral System
Lighting, Stony Coral Identification,
Stony Coral Selection, Coral Placement,
Foods/Feeding/Nutrition,
Disease/Health, Propagation,
Growing Reef Corals, Stony
Coral Behavior, SPS
Identification, SPS Behavior,
SPS Compatibility, SPS Selection,
SPS Systems, SPS Feeding,
SPS Disease, SPS Reproduction,
Related Articles: True or Stony Corals, Order
Scleractinia, Family Astrocoeniidae,
/The Best Livestock For Your Reef Aquarium:
Family Pocilloporidae, Part 2
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Genus Seriatopora Lamarck 1816,
Bird's Nest, Needle, Brush Coral. One of the easiest of genera to pick
out amongst the stony corals, with thin, pointed branches and the
family's easily seen verrucae.
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Seriatopora caliendrum Ehrenberg 1834. Bird's Nest Coral. The second
most commonly encountered member of the genus. Note the more blunt ends
of its branches. Here in an aquarium and Fiji. |  
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Seriatopora hystrix Dana 1846, the most common Bird's Nest
Coral. Needle like endings on variably thick, twisted branches. Here
are Bird's Nest Corals in the Red Sea and off Heron Island,
Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Aquarium, Fiji and Philippines
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Genus Stylophora: Schweigger 1819, Finger, Cluster, Brush, Club
Coral. Thick branches with rounded ends. This genus' skeleton
(coenosteum) has peculiar small spines (spinules) and hooding on the
distal (far end) of the corallites that give the whole a fuzzy
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Stylophora danae Milne Edwards & Haime 1850. Low lying flattened
branches that irregularly cross-fuse. Here in its range in the Red
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Stylophora pistillata Exper 1797. Low growing, thick round branches
with rounded ends. Colored light brown to cream to pink, green...
Indo-Mid Pacific; Red Sea, East Africa to S. Japan, Tuamotus. Here off
Heron Island, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a close up of a colony in
the Red Sea showing the "little hoods" over each polyp, and a colony in
N. Sulawesi. |
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Conclusion: Due to their abundance in nature, diversity of
shape, color, flexibility in adapting to aquarium conditions, ease of
propagation by fragmentation, the Pocilloporids for the most part make
great reef aquarium livestock. Give them strong lighting, water
movement, clean water of sufficient biomineral and alkaline content, the
occasional feeding of planktonic foods and you will be richly rewarded.
Bibliography/Further Reading:
Coral Search Borneman, Eric H. 2001. Aquarium Corals;
Selection, Husbandry and Natural History. Microcosm-TFH NJ, USA. 464 pp.
Fossa, Svein A. & Alf Jacob Nilsen. 1998 (1st ed.). The Modern Coral
Reef Aquarium, v.2 (Cnidarians). Bergit Schmettkamp Verlag, Borhheim,
Germany. 479pp. Hoover, John. 1998. Hawai'i's Sea Creatures. A
Guide to Hawai'i's Marine Invertebrates. Mutual Publishing, Honolulu HI.
366pp. Humann, Paul. 1993. Reef Coral Identification; Florida,
Caribbean, Bahamas. New World Publications, Inc. Jacksonville, FL.
239pp. Tyree, Steve. 1994. Sexual reproduction and recruitment of
the stony coral Pocillopora verrucosa (Ellis and Solander 1786) with
discussion of spawning induction techniques. Aquarium Frontiers v1:1
Spr. 94. Veron, J.E.N. 1986. Corals of Australia and the
Indo-Pacific. U. of HI press, Honolulu. 644 pp. Veron, J.E.N.
2000. Corals of the World. Australian Institute of Marine Science.
Queensland, Australia. three volumes. To:
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