Commonly known as: long-whiskered frisbee, spoke-shaped solar mushroom coral
English name: Long Tentacle, Plate Coral
Japanese text name: Palau Kusabilaisi
Scientific name: Heliofungia actiniformis
Named by: Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
Boundaries: Animalia Animal Kingdom
Phylum: Phytophthora cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa Corals
Suborder: Hexacorallia Hexa coral suborder
Order: Scleractinia Stony Coral
Family: Fungiidae Lithophyllaceae
Genus: Heliofungia radiator coral
Species: Heliofungia actiniformis
Distribution: Australia, Bangi Islands, Great Barrier Reef, Indonesia, Indo-Pacific, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Togian Islands, Vanuatu
Size: Max 45CM
Temperature: 24°C-27°C
Food sources: plankton, coral grain, invertebrates, zooplankton (copepods), brine fleas (peduncles)
Suitable for aquarium: 100L or more
Difficulty: Medium
Illumination: Medium to low light is acceptable
Water Flow: Medium weak current
Insensitive to NO3, you can feed fish food or coral food, which has zooxanthellae itself, and it is generally fine not to feed.
Similar to other frisbee types, it also moves position slowly.
The long-bearded frisbee belongs to the stony coral (Heliofungia actiniformis) and has always been popular with aquarium enthusiasts. However, the appearance of this coral is quite deceptive, in the water it can be dramatically expanded, can move freely, can flip itself over, and can escape the danger of being buried by the bottom sand and causing suffocation.
Because of its appearance, it is often confused with other types of corals, including fungia, Ctenactis, and herpolitha, which were once used as frisbees, but due to water
Solar frisbees are commonly found in in the Indo-Pacific oceans, distributed in coral reef discs and lagoons, in both deep and shallow waters. The types of different areas are different in diameter and tentacles. Some species have forked tentacles. There are several colors, but the color and distribution seem to have nothing to do with each other. The most common color is gray-brown with faint stripes and white at the tip of the tentacles. There is also a fluorescent green with white stripes. The best looking one is the pink tentacles.
Among them are the species of green and pink mixed colors and the Nile Catalaphyllia jardinei. similar.
White tentacles, brown body, or green
This coral belongs to the genus Mushroom Coral and is treated as well, for details, refer to the general introduction of the genus Mushroom Coral.