Where to buy Massive Porites
Best known price right now: $10.00 at World Wide Corals. Prices are checked periodically and may change.
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About Massive Porites
Massive Porites forms dense, boulder-like colonies with a heavily textured surface composed of countless small corallites. Coloration ranges from brown and tan to gray or yellowish, often with lighter polyp tips that give the colony a bumpy, warty appearance.
Key facts
- Appearance Description
- Massive Porites forms dense, boulder-like colonies with a heavily textured surface composed of countless small corallites. Coloration ranges from brown and tan to gray or yellowish, often with lighter polyp tips that give the colony a bumpy, warty appearance.
- Placement Recommendation
- Top
- Coloration
- Tan to yellow-brown with massive structure
- Family
- Acroporidae
- Additional Notes
- Hardy massive coral; extremely slow-growing. Benefits from occasional zooplankton feeding but survives on photosynthesis alone in established reefs.
- Water Parameters
- Temperature: 75-80°F pH: 8.1-8.3 Salinity: 1.023-1.026
- Growth Rate
- Moderate
- Lighting Requirement
- High
- Flow Requirement
- Medium
- Coral Type
- SPS
- Feeding Needs
- Photosynthetic only
- Origin
- Caribbean and Western Atlantic, from Florida and the Bahamas throughout the tropical Caribbean to Brazil.
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