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Candy Cane Coral
Caulastrea furcata
Family: Merulinidae
📍 Indo-Pacific Reef Systems
Candy Cane Coral (also called Trumpet Coral) is a hardy LPS coral with distinctly separate, trumpet-shaped corallites in green, teal, or cream coloration — often with contrasting stripe or dot patterns reminiscent of candy canes. It is one of the most forgiving LPS corals for new reef keepers, tolerating a wider range of light and flow conditions than most Euphyllia species. New heads bud readily with regular target feeding.
Keeping this species
- diet
- Photosynthetic; benefits from target feeding mysis shrimp or reef roids 2x weekly
- flow
- Low to moderate
- lifespan
- Decades
- lighting
- Low to moderate (30–120 PAR)
- placement
- Mid rockwork
- tank size
- 30 gallons minimum reef tank
- temperament
- Peaceful; no significant sweeper tentacles
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Water it likes
- ph
- 8.1–8.4
- calcium
- 400–450 ppm
- nitrate
- 1–10 ppm
- salinity
- 1.024–1.026 SG
- magnesium
- 1250–1350 ppm
- phosphate
- 0.03–0.1 ppm
- alkalinity
- 8–11 dKH
- temperature
- 73–81°F (23–27°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
79°F — 81°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Feb high)