A68 - Leptoseris Jack O Lantern

Leptoseris:

Quick Stats:

-          Lighting: Medium

-          Flow:  Low to Medium

-          Placement: Middle

-          Feeding: Photosynthetic but do accept powder food

-          Aggressiveness: Moderate

Characteristics: Leptoseris have a striated appearance with ridges often surrounding one or multiple mouths. They are an encrusting coral and can cover the rockwork under the correct conditions.

Colour: They typically come in four colours: red, green, orange and orange with green mouths. They can sometimes seem metallic in colour.

Lighting: Leptoseris seem to be at their optimal conditions under moderate lighting from 75 – 150 PAR. They fluoresce heavily under actinic lighting.

Flow: Leptoseris appreciates low to medium flow. Enough flow to keep detritus and debris from settling between the ridges. A happy specimen will typically swell towards the edge of the colony.

Placement: They can be placed around the middle of the tank on some rockwork so that they can encrust.  Make sure to leave a decent amount of space between them and other corals as they can send out sweeper tentacles which can harm other corals.

Feeding: Leptoseris are primarily photosynthetic. They can be fed but the food would need to be much smaller in size as they have relatively small mouths. It can be difficult to tell if the coral is feeding as their feeding tentacles are quite small.