Scientific Name: Alveopora gigasClassification: LPS Common Names: Branching Flower Pot Coral, Alveopora Coral
Description:Forms branching colonies with polyps that always have 12 tentacles. Similar species Goniopora always has 24 tentacles.
Veron: Colonies are composed of blunt-ended irregular columns. Corallites have thin highly perforated walls of interconnected rods and spines. Polyps are up to 100 millimeter long and 20 millimeters diameter when fully extended. Color: Oral discs and tentacle tips are white, the rest of the polyps are brown or greenish-brown.
Natural Environment:Veron: Protected turbid environments.Care:Hardiness: Alveopora is fairly delicate, although survival may be somewhat better than with the related Goniopora. The 'trick' required to successfully maintain these corals has not been discovered and success appears to be at least partly luck. May do best in a fairly nutrient rich lagoon type reef tank.Lighting: Seems to like moderate, and not intense, lighting.
Water Current: Seem to prefer low to moderate water motion which is in keeping with their natural habitat conditions.
Temperature: Does well within a range of at least 78º to 82º F
Aggressiveness: Appears to be low.
Feeding: Alveopora is photosynthetic and it is not known if they will take any offered foods. It may benefit from nutrient rich water, based on its natural habitat which is counter to most reef tank conditions.
Supplements: Maintaining correct calcium and alkalinity levels is undoubtedly important for skeletal development
Tank Positioning: Best positioning seems to be in a low water flow, moderate light area of the tank. The specimen to the right was originally kept under 400W MH lights and wave maker water conditions and seem to decline and bleach over several months. It was moved to a low current moderate (175W 10K MH) lighting and has recovered significantly over in the last 8 months. Coloration has returned, although darker than originally and polyp extension is slowly improving.
Description:Forms branching colonies with polyps that always have 12 tentacles. Similar species Goniopora always has 24 tentacles.
Veron: Colonies are composed of blunt-ended irregular columns. Corallites have thin highly perforated walls of interconnected rods and spines. Polyps are up to 100 millimeter long and 20 millimeters diameter when fully extended. Color: Oral discs and tentacle tips are white, the rest of the polyps are brown or greenish-brown.
Natural Environment:Veron: Protected turbid environments.Care:Hardiness: Alveopora is fairly delicate, although survival may be somewhat better than with the related Goniopora. The 'trick' required to successfully maintain these corals has not been discovered and success appears to be at least partly luck. May do best in a fairly nutrient rich lagoon type reef tank.Lighting: Seems to like moderate, and not intense, lighting.
Water Current: Seem to prefer low to moderate water motion which is in keeping with their natural habitat conditions.
Temperature: Does well within a range of at least 78º to 82º F
Aggressiveness: Appears to be low.
Feeding: Alveopora is photosynthetic and it is not known if they will take any offered foods. It may benefit from nutrient rich water, based on its natural habitat which is counter to most reef tank conditions.
Supplements: Maintaining correct calcium and alkalinity levels is undoubtedly important for skeletal development
Tank Positioning: Best positioning seems to be in a low water flow, moderate light area of the tank. The specimen to the right was originally kept under 400W MH lights and wave maker water conditions and seem to decline and bleach over several months. It was moved to a low current moderate (175W 10K MH) lighting and has recovered significantly over in the last 8 months. Coloration has returned, although darker than originally and polyp extension is slowly improving.
Latince Adı: Alveopora
Habitatı: Kızıldeniz, Hint Okyanusu, Orta Pasifik.
Beslenme Biçimi: Işık, fotoplankton, tortu ve pislikler.
Işık: Az-Orta
Akıntı: Yok-Orta
Agresiflik: Çok Az
Bakım Zorluğu: Kolay
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