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Candy Cane Coral
Candy Cane Coral is a branching LPS with rounded fleshy polyps at the ends of tubular skeletal stalks. Contrasting centers and radial stripes often resemble pieces of candy or small trumpets.
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Duncan Coral
Duncan Coral is a branching LPS with fleshy, flower-like polyps extending from tubular corallites. It is popular for visible feeding responses, moderate care requirements, and readily produced daughter heads.
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Green Star Polyp
Green Star Polyp is an encrusting soft coral with fast to very fast growth after acclimation. Its main long-term management challenge is containing the mat and pruning it before it reaches neighboring corals, pumps, overflows, seams, or porous rock.
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Hammer Coral
Hammer Corals are fleshy Euphylliid LPS corals named for their hammer-, anchor-, or T-shaped tentacle tips. Their large polyps sway in gentle flow and can form branching colonies or continuous wall-like skeletons.
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Mushroom Coral
Mushroom corals are solitary or colonial corallimorpharians with fleshy, disc-shaped bodies. They are valued for hardiness, vivid colors, and their ability to thrive in lower-light areas where many stony corals struggle.
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Zoanthid Coral
Zoanthids are colonial reef animals made of individual polyps connected by living tissue. They are popular for vivid colors, relatively forgiving care, and their ability to form dense mats across rockwork.
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