Neon Green Elephant Ear Mushroom Coral
Mushroom corals are corallimorpharians, not true stony corals — no calcium carbonate skeleton, just a fleshy oral disc that expands to soak up light and contracts to a nub when it's unhappy. This one grows a broad, deeply ruffled disc that genuinely earns the elephant-ear comparison, and it reproduces readily by pedal laceration, leaving small clone buds behind as it creeps across rock. Give it a season and one frag turns into a small colony without any effort on your part.
Care level: Easy · Light/Flow/Placement: Low-moderate light, low flow, bottom of tank · Max size: 4-6" disc, colonizes over time · Diet: Photosynthetic, occasional fine feeding
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