Open Brain Coral (Green) - Trachyphyllia geoffroyiAlso known as: Green Open Brain Coral
Color: The Open Brain Coral (Green) has a green, tan, cream color.
Type of hard coral: Large polyp stony coral (LPS).
Diet: Carnivore.
Feeding: It likes to eat filter feeding invert food, Mysis Shrimp, micro-plankton a few times per week, when open. Likes to have very small bits of raw shrimp or silversides..
Behavior: The Trachyphyllia geoffroyi is generally semi-aggressive toward other tankmates.Care: Many consider the Trachyphyllia geoffroyi a medium-maintenance specimen.
Lighting: Has intermediate lighting needs.Symbiotic algae zooxanthellae are hosted within this organism.
Water flow: The Green Open Brain Coral requires intermediate water flow.
General notes: This sand dwelling coral will sting other organisms near it, so give it space. Open Brain or Pacific Rose Coral is amongst the easiest to care for, most appropriate true or stony coral species available to marine aquarists. Given selection of initially healthy specimens, moderate light, water movement and decent water quality this it ranks near the top in terms of hardiness. Open Brain Coral has large polyps with a mantle that can be expanded more than three times the size of its skeleton during the day. Generally this is a nocturnal feeder, producing rows of tentacles to capture prey by the dark of night. You can see the numerous mouths in the colonies valleys at this time. Trachyphyllia are "secondarily free-living", starting off as single attached polyps, annealed to a hard substrate, and later breaking off, mostly found on sand to muddy bottoms... their color varying with depth, turbidity of water. Color variation abound in Trachyphyllia, with pink to reddish to tan to brownish to gray to greenish, blue... even multi-streaked ones with highlights. Adapting to a wide range of lighting, water motion and quality, Trachyphyllia is an ideal "starter" or "beginner" stony coral; likely the hardiest of stony/true coral species in aquarium use. Happily it is an abundant/common, easy to collect species in the wild with a distribution range matching its usefulness to aquarists. This specimen requires being directly on the sand. It will puff up it`s polyp to shift itself to better recieve the light and flow. Failure to allow it to do this will result in a stressed coral that will likely die.
Water parameters: Keep water quality high (SG 1.023 - 1.025, pH 8.1 - 8.4, Temp. 72 - 78° F).
Origin: The Open Brain Coral (Green) is commonly collected from Indo-Pacific.
Specifications: Due to variations in growth of Corals from depth, environment, flow, etc. it is impossible to pinpoint exact sizes. These sizes are very approximate and will not apply in all situations. If you have any questions regarding size please contact your MarineDepotLive.com Customer Service Technician. SMALL is generally smaller than a baseball, MEDIUM is generally smaller than a softball and LARGE is generally larger than a softball.
Note: Due to variations among each species, livestock may not look identical to the image provided. Expect diversity since each animal is unique in color, texture and shape.
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