Where to buy Blue Coral
ReefDock searches the following reef retailers for this coral. Click through to see the live price.
- Search World Wide Corals
World Wide Corals
Search this retailer
- Search Tidal Gardens
Tidal Gardens
Search this retailer
- Search Amazon
Amazon
Search this retailer
- Search Petco
Petco
Search this retailer
About Blue Coral
Blue Coral displays distinctive blue or blue-purple coloration in its skeleton and tissue. It forms encrusting to branching colonies with a compact polyp arrangement and a characteristic rigid calcium carbonate skeleton that is notably harder and denser than most other aquarium corals.
Key facts
- Placement Recommendation
- Middle
- Additional Notes
- Photo needed: new livestock catalog expansion entry added on 2026-04-25. Octocoral with a hard blue aragonite skeleton. Photo candidate added via SearchAPI on 2026-04-25 from inaturalist.org. Verify species match and usage rights before marking final.
- Care Requirements
- • Place in middle reef zone with moderate to strong water flow • Requires strong lighting (PAR 250-400+) • Feed small particulates; benefits from zooplankton supplementation • Maintain stable salinity (1.024-1.026) and alkalinity (8-12 dKH) • Temperature 72-78°F; avoid rapid parameter changes
- Growth Rate
- Moderate
- Care difficulty
- Hard
- Coloration
- Blue skeleton with tan to brown tissue
- Lighting Requirement
- 150-250 PAR
- Min tank size
- 75 gallons
- Appearance Description
- Blue Coral displays distinctive blue or blue-purple coloration in its skeleton and tissue. It forms encrusting to branching colonies with a compact polyp arrangement and a characteristic rigid calcium carbonate skeleton that is notably harder and denser than most other aquarium corals.
- Water Parameters
- Temperature: 72-78°F pH: 8-8.3 Salinity: 1.023-1.025
- Flow Requirement
- Medium to High
- Family
- Helioporidae
Looking for a hobbyist seller?
ReefDock's marketplace lets reef-keepers sell coral directly to other reef-keepers with Stripe-secured checkout and live-arrival photo confirmation. Browse current coral listings on ReefDock, or list your own.
Verify the source tank before you buy
ReefDock is the sister app to Reef Trak. Sellers who maintain a Reef Trak tank log can publish source-tank parameters on eligible coral listings — so you can see the conditions a coral was raised in before you buy. Log this coral on Reef Trak.