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Care Level: Easy
Lighting Requirements: Moderate to High
Water Flow: Moderate to High
Aggressiveness: Passive
Range: Indo-Pacific
Family: Pachyclavularia
Water Conditions: 23-27° C; sg 1.023-1.025; pH 8.1-8.4
Star Polyp corals are generally hardy and make excellent additions to a beginner or advanced reef aquarium. The waving polyps flowing in the current add movement and colour to the aquarium. Propagated Star Polyps acclimate very well to new tanks due to the fact that they are tank raised. It is better to acquire coral frags when they are young. It seems that small frags have more ability to adjust to adverse conditions and survive. Star Polyps generally grow very quickly under good conditions and care must be taken as they will encrust anything adjacent. Leave several inches around coral as it will need more room as they grow.
Star Polyp corals are a very attractive bright phosphorescent purple colour. The intensity of the coloration is affected by the amount of lighting the coral receives
Make sure that moderate currents will be able to supply them with necessary nutrients and trace elements. Although symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae hosted within them supply most of their nutritional requirements through photosynthesis they do require supplemental feedings. Supplementing their diet with the addition of iodine, trace elements, marine snow, baby brine shrimp, phytoplankton, and food for filter feeders will help to insure their continued good health.
Image depicted may not be the specific frag received but originates from the original parent colony.