Where to buy Horn Coral
Best known price right now: $13.30 at World Wide Corals. Prices are checked periodically and may change.
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About Horn Coral
Hydnophora exesa forms branching or columnar colonies with distinctive horn-like or tubular protrusions. Coloration ranges from brown and tan to greenish or reddish hues, often with lighter polyp tips. The corallites are prominent and tubular with visible septa.
Key facts
- Flow Requirement
- Medium
- Family
- Merulinidae
- Feeding Needs
- Light supplemental feeding
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea to the Great Barrier Reef and throughout Micronesia.
- Coral Type
- LPS
- Placement Recommendation
- Middle
- Care Requirements
- • Placement: Middle to upper reef zones with moderate to strong lighting • Flow: Moderate to strong water flow; needs good circulation • Light: Moderate to high PAR (200-400 μmol/m²/s); prefers bright conditions • Feeding: Photosynthetic with supplemental meaty feeding (small foods like copepods, mysis) • Water: Stable parameters (pH 8.1-8.3, Alk 8-12 dKH, Ca 400-450 ppm); avoid copper
- Additional Notes
- Encrusting to plating hydnophora. Very aggressive with long sweeper tentacles.
- Care difficulty
- Moderate
- Coloration
- Brown, tan, greenish, or reddish with contrasting polyp coloration
- Growth Rate
- Fast
- Lighting Requirement
- 100-200 PAR
Research before you buy
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