Feeding Difficulty: Medium
Illumination: Medium to strong
Water Flow: Strong
Place: Medium to high
Requirements: Salinity 1.020-1.025; PH 8.1-8.4
Color: green, brown, brown, pink
Temperament: Certainly aggressive
Main origin: Indian Ocean, Fiji
Species: Staghorn Coral family
The fine-branched staghorn coral belongs to the small hydra-bodied hard coral species (SPS). It is called many names among aquarium enthusiasts, such as perforated corals, bush corals and brush corals. Color types include green, brown, brown and pink. Its feeding difficulty is medium, not very difficult to raise, it requires moderate to strong light and strong water flow, which can bring enough tiny food to the filter-eating animals. Poor water quality cannot be tolerated, which requires being kept in mature sea tanks. However, if proper lighting and filter food are provided, they will grow very quickly.
Filter-eaters need to be kept in mature tanks, and good ecosystems can provide a large number of tiny plankton for their filter feeding. When placing it, pay attention to the position to ensure that there is medium to strong light, but also pay attention to ensure that it can filter food from the flow of water that passes. Water flow requires strong and passive, that is, do not directly flush with water flow, because they can not withstand direct continuous impact. Fine-branched staghorn corals grow upwards and outwards to extend to neighboring stones, but do not stick out very long tentacles to harm nearby neighbors. They are not considered very aggressive, which means they do not have long tentacles, but they grow rapidly and must be placed in consideration, with spacing from other corals. Fine-branched staghorn corals need calcium in water to maintain certain levels, between 400-440. Water quality requirements are excellent, low nutrient salt content. Once the environment is right, it will grow healthily and belong to the more skinny varieties in SPS.
Fine-branched staghorn corals are filter-eaters that use hair-like tentacles in the wild to catch plankton and other small organic matter in the water that passes by. In aquariums, strong indirect water currents need to be provided so that they can filter plankton, micro-organic matter, shrimp larvae and coral grain from the water. A mature sea tank can provide enough microorganisms for its filter food, but most aquariums do not meet this requirement, which requires some additional food twice a week. Some of the nutrients of the fine-branched staghorn corals can also be obtained from symbiotic algae photosynthesis, so some lighting is required to make photosynthesis work.
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