Finger Leather coral has light pink body with green stalks. Coral grows in branching pattern, shape and color will change depends on lights settings.

Finger Leather (green stalks)

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The Finger Leather Coral is also commonly referred to as Sinularia Coral, Finger Leather, or Trough Corals within the aquarium hobby. Finger Leather Corals are found both in Tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans in various shades of brown, with white or gold polyps. It is somewhat difficult to identify many species because they all have the similar appearance of a mushroom or toadstool, each with a distinct stalk and capitulum (cap).
The Finger Leather Coral uses symbiotic algae zooxanthellae hosted within its body to provide the majority of its nutritional needs from the light driven process of photosynthesis. Thus intense lighting from either metal halide or powercompact fluorescent lighting should be used to provide high intensity lighting. Finger Leather Corals will also benefit from additional feedings of foods such as micro-plankton, baby brine shrimp, or foods designed for filter feeding invertebrates.
Finger Leather Corals are relatively peaceful corals and are more often likely to be disturbed by other corals than they are a disturbance to others, but adequate space should be provided between them and other corals in the reef aquarium. However, when the Finger Leather Coral perceives a threat or disturbance, it will retract its polyps into the skeleton and secrete a mucous coat for protection. This mucous is toxic to other corals and is used to ward away other reef inhabitants infringing on its territory.

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