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Soft Reef Coral Species Profiles

Aquarium care, propagation, and other profile information about soft octocorals such as Star Polyp, Leather, Tree and Xenia Corals, Gorgonians, Sea Fans and Pens, Zoanthids, Colonial Anemones and Button Polyps, Disc Anemones or Mushroom Corals, and other Subclass Octocorallia species.
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Colt & Leather Coral Photo Gallery
Popular soft corals kept by beginning reefers, here is a collection of Family Alcyoniidae - Genera Alcyonium, Cladiella, Lobophytum, Sarcophyton, and Sinularia photos. These are species commonly named Colt - Devil's Hand - Toadstool - and Finger, Encrusting, Lobed, Knobby, Flexible, Flat, Trough, Cabbage, Mushroom Leather Corals.

Soft Corals Profiles and Information
Aquarium care, propagation, and other profile information about soft octocorals such as Star Polyp, Leather, Tree and Xenia Corals, Gorgonians, Sea Fans and Pens, Zoanthids, Colonial Anemones and Button Polyps, Disc Anemones or Mushroom Corals, and other Subclass Octocorallia species.

10 Easy Soft Corals For Your Reef Tank
Their requirements not being very well understood, corals used to be almost impossible to keep for any length of time in an aquarium. Over time and with many successful and failed experiments along the way, the knowledge, products and information are now in place, so that many corals can now be successfully kept in small aquariums. Some soft corals are now considered "easy" (while many others are…

Gorgonian Species Profiles
From Janet's Reef, Janet provides a general overview on the characteristics of Gorgonians and includes photos, such as the Purple Sea Plume and Encrusting Carpet species, that when clicked on displays enlarged views and some basic care information about them.

Green Star Polyp Coral Profile
From Janet's Reef Polyps & Mushrooms Page, here you will find a general charactertistics profile on these types of corals, but it includes a Green Star Polyp photo (Clavularia viridis) that when clicked on provides an enlarged view and more basic care information about this soft Octocoral species.

Soft Coral Species Profiles
From Janet's Reef, Janet provides a general overview on the characteristics of Soft Corals and includes photos, such as Colt, Tree, Carnation, and Pulsing Xenia species, that when clicked on displays an enlarged view and some basic care information about them.

Xenia Propagation Page
From GARF, on this page you will find valuable information by LeRoy Headlee about propagating soft Xenia species corals that are also known as or Pulse Coral.

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