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Toadstool Umbrella Leather Live Aquaculture Soft Coral
Information
One of the most popular corals that come to mind is the Toadstool Leather Coral. Like its name-sake, the toadstool leather forms a large, mushroom-like shape from which long tentacles extend. They prefer modest lighting and strong flow in the aquarium and when provided favorable conditions can grow to enormous sizes. Toadstool Leather Corals are one of the few corals that host clownfish well as clownfish gravitate to them more than other types of coral and the coral itself is well adapted to handle the contact from the fish.
Lighting
Sarcophyton leathers do not require as much light as some other corals. It can be kept under normal output fluorescents without much difficulty.
Water Flow
Moderate water movement is recommended though they seem to do well in high flow as well. Water flow is especially important to this type of leather coral because it routinely sheds a waxy layer about once a month which flow helps remove.
Feeding
Toadstool leather corals rely heavily on the products of their zooxanthellae but also may feed on phytoplankton and similarly sized microfauna in the water column.