Colorful Sea Whip

Leptogorgia virgulata

LiveBrineShrimp.com is pleased to announce the availability of an aquacultured soft coral called Colorful Sea Whip. These beautiful Sea Whips range in color from bright yellow to red to nearly white. They have large, generally white, polyps for their size. These soft corals range in size up to 24 inches tall with numerous branches. Using modern techniques of coral culturing and splicing, the company has created a variety of sizes cemeted to small pieces of our worm rock and then grown here at the farm. This species of soft coral may be one of the hardiest in the Atlantic Ocean. During an annual cycle, this creature experiences temperatues from 40 to 90 F, salt concentration between 24 and 42 ppt and it does not need bright light for survival. A cool white florescent light will do. The dietary requirements include daily (or every few days) addition of phytoplankton and we recommend our Beta-Meal as it is easy to use since it is a dry product. In old mini-reef aquariums where there is ample nutrification there may be a need to feed less.

Aquacultured Colorful Sea Whips are sold in three sizes: small (3 to 6 inches), medium (6 to 10 inches) and large (10 to 15 inches tall). Note: the worm rock bases get larger as Whip sizes increase. Each Whip comes with a very nice small piece of base rock.

CORAL PLACEMENT

Sea Whips can be damaged by stinging hard corals, soft corals, and some anemones. Caution must be taken when placing the Sea Whip in your mini-reef tank if it is populated with numerous corals. We recommend that the Sea Whip be placed at least six inches from stinging corals. Also. the placement of Sea Whips upstream of the water current pattern is recommended. Being downstream of the current pattern can cause released stinging cells from the other corals to damage the somewhat defenseless Sea Whips.

Please indicate color (red or yellow) preference in the "comment" section of your Internet Order.