Alveopora spongiosa

Grows carpet-, plate- or cone-shaped. The mouth is surrounded by 12 vivid coloured tentacles. Eats plankton and lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen.

Anthelia

Lives colonial and in symbiosis to zooxanthellen. Is easy to keep. Requires a lot of light en grows carpet like. It has eight tentacle, placed on a stem, wich it catch food out of the water.

Anthelia flava

Lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen. Requires a lot of light. Multiply through fragment. Becomes a beautiful blue glow.

Blastomusa wellsi

Requires a lot of light. In later life they grow seperate. Lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen. They are red or green coloured.

Briareum asbestinum

Requires a lot of light and a firm stream of water.

Briareum asbestinum

This is how the colony looks when all the polyp are in a retiring disposition.

Briareum asbestinum

Detail photo.

Caulastrea echinulata

Lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen. Eats plankton. Requires moderate light and a moderate stream of water .

Caulastrea furcata

Lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen. Eats plankton. Requires moderate light and a moderate stream of water.

Clavularia

Starpolyp. Requires a lot of light en lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen. Reproduce rapidly by fission. Is easy to keep. Specialy for beginner. Has usually a white or green luminescent hart.

Clavularia

Starpolyp. Requires a lot of light en lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen. Reproduce rapidly by fission. Is easy to keep. Specialy for beginner. There are many different forms.

Clavularia

Starpolyp. Requires a lot of light en lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen. Reproduce rapidly by fission. Is easy to keep. Specialy for beginner. There are many different forms.

Clavularia glove poliep

Starpolyp. Requires a lot of light en lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen. Reproduce rapidly by fission. Is easy to keep. Specialy for beginner.

Discosoma

Anemone. Has a smooth surface and has many colors. Such as blue, purple, orange, brown, green, red. Requires moderate light and little stream of water. It lives colonal in all seas. Some species fluoridate.

Discosoma coeruleus

Anemone. Has a smooth surface and has many colors. Such as blue, purple, orange, brown, green, red. Requires covered light and little stream of water. It lives colonal in all seas. Some species fluoridate.

Discosoma ferrugatus

Anemone. Has a smooth surface and has many colors. Such as blue, purple, orange, brown, green, red. Requires covered light and little stream of water. It lives colonal in all seas. Some species fluoridate.

Discosoma striatus

Anemone. Has a smooth surface and has many colors. Such as blue, purple, orange, brown, green, red. Requires covered light and little stream of water. It lives colonal in all seas. Some species fluoridate.

Discosoma

Young animals.

Discosoma nummiformis

Anemone. Requires covered light and a little stream of water. It lives colonial or alone on death reef.

Dysidea herbacea

This blue sponge are sessile and filter there food out of the water. The colours are made by pigments in their texture. Some of the sponge can poison their attacker, so they won't be possesed by p.e.algea.

Dysidea herbacea

Young sponge.

Sponge don't have a permanent form. Their development depends on circumstances like light and streaming of the water.

Entacmaea quadricolor

Bubble Tip Anemone. Easy to keep. Eats mysis, little shrimps and lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen. Requires a lot of light and a moderate water flow. Is red, yellow or brown coloured.

Fungia fungites

Eats plankton, mysis and little shrimps. In his youth it grows on a stem. It is hermaphrodtic. Requires a lot of light and put it on the gravel or on a flat surface when its adult.

Hydnophora pilosa

Eats plankton. At first he grows flat, later on the lumps grows horizontal as vertical. The polyps are active at night.

Lobophytum

Lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen. Requires a lot of light and a moderat stream of water.Is easy to keep. Grows large and needs a lot of space.

Merulina ampliata

Requires a lot of light. The green colour fluoridates regular. Eats plankton and lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen. Multiply through fragment. Requires a superficial and moderate stream of water.

Montipora hodgsoni

Is easy to keep. Requires a lot of light and a firm stream of water. Lives of light and in symbiosis to zooxanthellen. They are grey-brown till red coloured. There polyps are white or blue coloured.

Pachyclavularia violacea

Specially for beginner. Requires a lot of light en lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen. Grows carpet like. Polyps can be green, brown or gray and they have a sharp coloured mouth.

Palythoa

Requires moderate light. Lives colonial and eats artemia.

Palythoa

Detail photo.

Pavona cactus

Easy to keep. It need some space to grow because he grows flat. Grows as well in much light as in little light. Eats plankton.

Pseudoptergorgia americana

Grows bushy. Eats plankton and lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen. The polyps are always (day and night) active.

Rhodactis rhodostoma

Anemone. Easy to keep.Grows up large. Requires moderate light and stream of water. Lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen

Ricordea

Anemone. Species with a lot of different colours. Has rounded tentacles. Lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen but eats also fodder. Requires moderate light and a strong stream of water.

Ricordea

Anemone. Species with a lot of different colours. Has rounded tentacles. Lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen but eats also fodder. Encloses the fodder into a ball. Requires moderate light and a moderate stream of water.

Ricordea

Anemone. Species with a lot of different colours. Has rounded tentacles. Lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen but eats also fodder. Encloses the fodder into a ball. Requires moderate light and a moderate stream of water.

Ricordea eating.

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Sabelastarte indica

Tubeworm. With its feathered crown it catch the food out of the water. The crown can have many colours. Its reacting very sensible on movement in its area. They can be placed between the rocks al well into the sand.

Sarcophyton crassocaule

The polyps have eight tentacle wich they catch little plankton at night. It lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen and requires a strong stream of water. Is easy to keep. Reproduce by fission.

Sarcophyton crassocaule

This Sarcophyton is busy with fission. Afterwards we do have two specimen, wich grow further.

Sarcophyton glaucum

The polyps have eight tentacle wich they catch little plankton at night. It lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen and requires a strong stream of water. Is easy to keep. Reproduce by fission.

Sinularia

Requires a lot of light and a strong stream of water. Has short polyps en branched strongly.

Sinularia brassica

Grows like a cauliflower. If the polyps are retracting the coral becomes a snowwhite colour. Requires a lot of light and a strong stream of water. Is easy to keep. Has very short polyps and branched strongly.

Stylophora pistillata

Easy to keep. Requires much light and a moderate or strong stream of water. Eats plankton and lives in symbiosis to zooxanthellen. Reproduce by fragmentation. The form is variable.

Tubipora musica

Organ-pipe coral. Eats plankton. It has 8 feathered tentacles. The skeleton is red or dark-red coloured. The polyp are whtie, grey, brown or green coloured. Requires moderate light and a moderate stream of water.