Nepthea, Sinularia, or Kenya Tree?

zyrzyxen · Mar 31, 2024

Was sold the following as a Kenya Tree leather. Can anyone confirm? Also, low/medium light with low flow should be appropriate for this?

Reefkeepers Archive · Mar 31, 2024

Polyp structure rules out sinularia, I don't know much about nepthea but my guess would be Kenya tree

encrustingacro · Apr 21, 2024

Kenya tree. Sinularia are cabbage leathers (finger leathers are Sclerophytum), and Nephthea is a synonym of Litophyton.

jdubDaReefGuy · Apr 21, 2024

Definitely a Kenya. Here is a picture of mine when I first added it versus 24 hours later

jdubDaReefGuy · Apr 21, 2024

I run mine at medium light medium flow. If I understand correctly, all leathers need atleast moderate flow to prevent ditritus build up

betareef · Apr 21, 2024

encrustingacro said:
Sinularia are cabbage leathers (finger leathers are Sclerophytum)

That caused me to do a bit of searching, as I have this which I thought of as a finger leather but it is Sinularia. Searching I see Sclero. as lobed finger leathers, and yes, different.

encrustingacro · Apr 22, 2024

betareef said:
That caused me to do a bit of searching, as I have this which I thought of as a finger leather but it is Sinularia. Searching I see Sclero. as lobed finger leathers, and yes, different.

Basically all Sinularia species got reclassified to Sclerophytum in 2022. The only remaining TRUE Sinularia species is S. brassica, which are cabbage leathers.

19Mateo83 · Apr 22, 2024

Kenya for sure. Once it gets happy it will open up and stretch out. Keep it in medium flow but they can take higher light as long as you acclimate it slowly.