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Mushroom Coral
Actinodiscus spp.
Family: Discosomatidae
📍 Indo-Pacific Reef Systems
Mushroom corals (discosoma) are flat, fleshy soft corals available in a huge range of colours including green, blue, red, and metallic. They are excellent beginner corals, requiring low to medium light and tolerating nutrient-rich water better than SPS corals.
Keeping this species
- flow
- Low to medium
- light
- Low to medium
- feeding
- Primarily photosynthetic
- tank size
- 20 gallons minimum
- temperament
- Semi-aggressive – can sting neighbouring corals
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Water it likes
- ph
- 8.1–8.3
- calcium
- 380–430 ppm
- salinity
- 1.024–1.026 SG
- alkalinity
- 8–11 dKH
- temperature
- 75–81°F (24–27°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
79°F — 81°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Feb high)