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Scientific Name
Heliopora
Common Names
Blue coral, ridge coral
Lighting
Strong prefered. Can addapt to medium light
Aggressiveness
Will quickly encrust over anything in the aquarium if you don't keep an eye on it.
Current
Strong prefered. Can addapt to mdeium current
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Hardiness
Hardy and fast growing
Color
Gray to light brown on the outside. Blue pigment hidden within the skeleton.
Feeding
receives the majority of its nutritional requirements through photosynthesis. It does not require additional food
Water parameters
Will prefer water at around 29C (84F)
Origin
Indo-Pacific
They are usually discovered on the edge of the reef.
Propagation
The Blue Coral, also call Blue Ridge Coral, is often mistaken for a small polyp stony (SPS) coral because it has a hard blue exoskeleton with long, thin polyps. It really is an octocoral (soft coral) and its growth forms are branching, plate-like, columnar, or encrusting.
Gray to light brown on the outside. Blue pigment hidden within the skeleton.
It is an extremely fast growing coral. It will quickly encrust over anything in the aquarium. A good way to stop the encrusting growth is to add some agressive zooanthus around. The zooanthus actually burned back the tissues of the Heliopora as it will do with any other coral.
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