Alphabet Game: Common Coral Names Edition (play along)

[i cant think]

No, you can tell if they are still living by how they look. Dead corals also sometimes have algae growing on them. Alive corals will still have flesh on them.

Again, not always. Live coral can also have algae on them, LPS is harder to tell alive from dead with than it is SPS. for example, this is my Duncan during the feeding response. Life will always grow on LPS coral whether it is dead or alive.

 

[i cant think]

Midnight Sky Acropora

 

[A Young Reefer]

Nacho cheese chalice

 

[i cant think]

Orange Oxide Zoanthids

 

[A Young Reefer]

Pikachu acropora

 

[encrustingacro]

Again, not always. Live coral can also have algae on them, LPS is harder to tell alive from dead with than it is SPS. for example, this is my Duncan during the feeding response. Life will always grow on LPS coral whether it is dead or alive.

Algae will grow on the dead parts of the coral. On most phaceloid corals such as duncans, only the parts of the branches with polyps on them are alive.