Where to buy Button Coral
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About Button Coral
Button Coral forms solitary or clustered circular polyps with a distinctive button-like shape. Coloration ranges from cream, orange, yellow, red, to purple, often with contrasting oral disk patterns. The polyp has a prominent central mouth surrounded by tentacles and radiating septal ridges.
Key facts
- Lighting Requirement
- Low to Medium (75-150 PAR)
- Appearance Description
- Button Coral forms solitary or clustered circular polyps with a distinctive button-like shape. Coloration ranges from cream, orange, yellow, red, to purple, often with contrasting oral disk patterns. The polyp has a prominent central mouth surrounded by tentacles and radiating septal ridges.
- Min tank size
- 20 gallons
- Water Parameters
- Temperature: 72-78°F pH: 8.1-8.3 Salinity: 1.023-1.025
- Placement Recommendation
- Middle
- Growth Rate
- Moderate
- Coloration
- Brown to green with button-like polyps
- Care difficulty
- Moderate
- Additional Notes
- Button corals are semi-aggressive and will sting neighbors; provide adequate spacing. They are relatively hardy but sensitive to sudden parameter swings.
- Care Requirements
- • Place in moderate, indirect lighting (avoid intense direct PAR) • Moderate water flow; avoid strong direct currents • Feed small particulates 2-3x weekly (zooplankton, mysis) • Maintain stable parameters: 72-78°F, pH 8.1-8.3, calcium 400-450ppm • Benefits from macronutrient supplementation and trace elements
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Great Barrier Reef and Hawaii.
- Feeding Needs
- Primarily photosynthetic; benefits from occasional feeding of small meaty foods (microplankton, copepods, chopped fish) 1–2 times per week.
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