Neon Green Spaghetti Finger Leather Coral

The Neon Green Spaghetti Leather Coral is a great looking, easy to care for soft coral that does well in pretty much any reef setup. The Spaghetti Finger Leather Coral is a finger type leather with a large number of very long strands of leather. Also called a Rasta Leather Coral, it is one of the favorite leather corals for the reef aquarium. This variety is a green to neon green color and has a highly branching form which is covered in tiny polyps. Spaghetti Finger Leather Corals grow fairly quickly given all its needs are met. Larger specimens are more "branchy" than smaller ones and make an impressive display with pulsing water movement.

Care Level Intermediate

Aggressiveness Semi aggressive

Lighting & Flow Requirements Spaghetti Leather Corals require a medium to high lighting level along with medium to strong water movement. Lighting can be Power compacts, T5's, LED's or even Metal Halides. All lighting can grow Leather Corals as long as the proper level of light is provided. For lighting a coral tank, a 14-20K color spectrum for your bulbs is best for coloration.

Placement Allow approximately two weeks time for the Spaghetti Leather Coral to adjust itself to its new reef aquarium before permanently securing down your coral. Your coral will expand during this period. When deciding placement consider its water flow and lighting needs. Also be certain to leave enough room around your coral that they have plenty of room for growth without infringing on another corals growing room or blocking their lighting.

Diet and Feeding Leather corals receive the majority of the nutritional requirements through the process of photosynthesis, which simply means their lighting creates symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae in the body of the leather coral which provides its nutrition. We do recommend providing supplemental food such as micro-plankton, baby brine shrimp, or foods designed for filter feeding invertebrates.