Dr. Gerry R. Allen, Australien
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Psammocora contigua
Esper, 1797
Similar Species: The fine superficial corallites are like those of Psammocora superficialis but the different growth-forms are always distinctive.
Water parameters:
Trace elements, (calcium 420-440 mg/L, magnesium 1100-1300 mg/L, KH below 8, strontium 8 mg/L). Water changes: at least 5% a week or 10% a month.
Water quality:
Permanently stable and clear water if possible, if necessary carbon filtration or ozonation is advisable to remove yellow substances.
The bucket comparison (white containers of the same size, in one freshly prepared water, in the other aquarium water) will quickly show you if your water in the aquarium is as clear as fresh water.
Stony corals do not like to stand in a yellow broth.
Nitrate NO3:
Less than 5 mg/L.
Phosphate PO4:
Less than 0.1 mg/L better even in the range of 0.01 mg/L.
All the mentioned stony corals can be propagated by fragmentation.
Let's not forget the aspect of animal - and environmental protection that all coral breeders do by now.
The more offshoots, the less removals in nature.
Whereby also there in the years much has done.
So today corals from aquaculture are offered preferentially and sold as offspring.
Hint:
Strongly branched colonies and very variable in color.
Beside the color also the appearance is already very different.
Synonyms:;
Lophoseris muelleri Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
Lophoseris mülleri Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
Madrepora contigua Esper, 1794
Madrepora phrygiana Esper, 1798
Matrepora contigua (Esper, 1794)
Matrepora phrygiana (Esper, 1798)
Montipora phrygiana (Esper, 1798)
Pavonia obtusangula Lamarck, 1816
Pavonia plicata Lamarck, 1816
Porites contigua (Esper, 1794)
Porites plicata (Dana, 1846)
Psammocora contigua var. maldivensis Gardiner, 1905
Psammocora contigua var. pulchra Nemenzo, 1955
Psammocora contigua var. tutuilensis Hoffmeister, 1925
Psammocora decussata Yabe & Sugiyama, 1937
Psammocora frondosa Verrill, 1864
Psammocora gonagra Kluzinger, 1879
Psammocora obtusangula (Lamarck, 1816)
Psammocora phrygiana (Esper, 1798)
Psammocora plicata Dana, 1846
Psammocora ramosa Quelch, 1886
Esper, 1797
Similar Species: The fine superficial corallites are like those of Psammocora superficialis but the different growth-forms are always distinctive.
Water parameters:
Trace elements, (calcium 420-440 mg/L, magnesium 1100-1300 mg/L, KH below 8, strontium 8 mg/L). Water changes: at least 5% a week or 10% a month.
Water quality:
Permanently stable and clear water if possible, if necessary carbon filtration or ozonation is advisable to remove yellow substances.
The bucket comparison (white containers of the same size, in one freshly prepared water, in the other aquarium water) will quickly show you if your water in the aquarium is as clear as fresh water.
Stony corals do not like to stand in a yellow broth.
Nitrate NO3:
Less than 5 mg/L.
Phosphate PO4:
Less than 0.1 mg/L better even in the range of 0.01 mg/L.
All the mentioned stony corals can be propagated by fragmentation.
Let's not forget the aspect of animal - and environmental protection that all coral breeders do by now.
The more offshoots, the less removals in nature.
Whereby also there in the years much has done.
So today corals from aquaculture are offered preferentially and sold as offspring.
Hint:
Strongly branched colonies and very variable in color.
Beside the color also the appearance is already very different.
Synonyms:;
Lophoseris muelleri Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
Lophoseris mülleri Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
Madrepora contigua Esper, 1794
Madrepora phrygiana Esper, 1798
Matrepora contigua (Esper, 1794)
Matrepora phrygiana (Esper, 1798)
Montipora phrygiana (Esper, 1798)
Pavonia obtusangula Lamarck, 1816
Pavonia plicata Lamarck, 1816
Porites contigua (Esper, 1794)
Porites plicata (Dana, 1846)
Psammocora contigua var. maldivensis Gardiner, 1905
Psammocora contigua var. pulchra Nemenzo, 1955
Psammocora contigua var. tutuilensis Hoffmeister, 1925
Psammocora decussata Yabe & Sugiyama, 1937
Psammocora frondosa Verrill, 1864
Psammocora gonagra Kluzinger, 1879
Psammocora obtusangula (Lamarck, 1816)
Psammocora phrygiana (Esper, 1798)
Psammocora plicata Dana, 1846
Psammocora ramosa Quelch, 1886
