Saltcorner
By Bob Goemans
By Bob Goemans
Likely Reef Tank Suitable
Likely Fish-Only Tank Suitable
Range: Indo-West Pacific Ocean
Natural Environment: Inhabits coastal areas, lagoons, back reefs, and reef fronts.
Aquarium Suitability: A beautiful species, however, not collected for the trade.
Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Subclass: Octocorallia
Order: Anlcyonacea
Suborder: Holaxonia
Family: Gorgoniidae
Genus: Hicksonella
FYI: Shown here only for identification only.
This fan shaped horny coral grows with the flat side facing the current to allow them to feed more efficiently on the flow of plankton.
Best left in the wild.
