Where to buy Anthelia
Best known price right now: $13.30 at World Wide Corals. Prices are checked periodically and may change.
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About Anthelia
Anthelia glauca is a soft coral with branching or clustered polyps that sway gently. Coloration ranges from cream, tan, and brown to greenish or purplish tones. The polyps have a characteristic feathery appearance with extended tentacles.
Key facts
- Growth Rate
- Fast
- Appearance Description
- Anthelia glauca is a soft coral with branching or clustered polyps that sway gently. Coloration ranges from cream, tan, and brown to greenish or purplish tones. The polyps have a characteristic feathery appearance with extended tentacles.
- Placement Recommendation
- Middle
- Care difficulty
- Easy
- Additional Notes
- Similar to Xenia but with a more uniform waving motion. It creates a soft field of movement that looks great when isolated from your main rockwork. Low to moderate light, moderate flow, and almost any nutrient level. It grows fast and spreads across rockwork quickly. Containment is the key to keeping it. It can be manually peeled from rocks, but scraps can regrow. Best kept on an island or in a place where its expansion does not matter.
- Care Requirements
- • Minimum 20 gallon tank • Prefers medium lighting (150–250 PAR) • Requires medium water flow for polyp movement and nutrient delivery • Temperature range 72–78°F with pH 8.1–8.3 and salinity 1.023–1.025 • Primarily photosynthetic but benefits from occasional meaty foods like rotifers or fine zooplankton
- Coloration
- Similar to Xenia but with a more uniform waving motion
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea through Southeast Asia to Australia and the Great Barrier Reef.
- Flow Requirement
- Medium
- Feeding Needs
- Light supplemental feeding
- Coral Type
- Soft
- Lighting Requirement
- Medium
Research before you buy
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