Where to buy Blue Coral
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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
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