What is this coral?

[Raazka]

Bought this soft coral at a pet shop but they weren’t able to ID its actual species, labelled only as “Leather”.

TYI!

 

[i cant think]

Bought this soft coral at a pet shop but they weren’t able to ID its actual species, labelled only as “Leather”.

TYI!

Identifying specific species with leathers is difficult as a lot of species look very similar, especially as the small frags or “colonies” we know.
It appears to be one of the Sclerophytum species (previously known as Sinularia). If it is, generally they’re quite easy, they do require a bit of flow over them to help when they shed their mucous layer to remove toxins (you’ll want to run carbon almost constantly so that you have as few toxins in the water as possible once they shed - I personally run it anyway, it helps with a lot of issues).

Someone else from the #reefsqu#reefsquade a better idea than me

 

[MadoreM]

Bought this soft coral at a pet shop but they weren’t able to ID its actual species, labelled only as “Leather”.

TYI!

Green Nano Leather (Sinularia)

 

[Rocks reef]

Without a white pic and polyp extension. I'm with the above posts with it being sinularia or devils hand. I'm leaning more towards Devils Hand due to the growth pattern.

 

[GuillTorr25]

I second Sinularia

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Looks like sinularia to me too.

 

[Raazka]

Identifying specific species with leathers is difficult as a lot of species look very similar, especially as the small frags or “colonies” we know.
It appears to be one of the Sclerophytum species (previously known as Sinularia). If it is, generally they’re quite easy, they do require a bit of flow over them to help when they shed their mucous layer to remove toxins (you’ll want to run carbon almost constantly so that you have as few toxins in the water as possible once they shed - I personally run it anyway, it helps with a lot of issues).

Someone else from the #reefsqu#reefsquade a better idea than me

Thank you! (And thanks to everyone else :))

Do you recommend any specific brands of carbon? I stopped running it a while ago because of the HLLE risks but now I’ll definitely bring it back