凉鞋珊瑚的桑达洛利莎·丹塔塔（Sandalolitha Dentata）可以生长得如此之大，以至于它可能是收集潜水员造成的唯一珊瑚，例如如何收集这个标本的故事。当我们第一次看到它时，这种凉鞋很容易长18英寸（46厘米），实际上吹了我们的想法全球海洋生活.
The behemoth Fungiid is simply the largest free-living LPS we have ever seen offered in the aquarium trade, although similar species likehalomitra和Zoopilus可以增长得多。我们首先注意到Sandalolitha dentata具体而言，在仔细阅读世界珊瑚的页面时，其中一个标本的图像呈明显的绿色条纹（下图）。
The ginormous Sandal coral now residing at Global Oceanic Life is absolutely behemoth, with an incredible pattern to boot. Looking more or less like a twin of the original picture of Sandalolitha dentata that caught our eye, this sandal coral has the benefit of being displayed under fluorescence-popping blue LED light making this gargantuan Fungiid shine.
类似的物种Sandalolitha robustais infrequently encountered in the aquarium hobby, all of the specimens we have seen have been solid neon green, but not nearly as large as this particular novelty coral. At retail the giant sandal coral would sell easily in the four digits not just for it’s size and uniqueness, but particularly for the shipping it incurred while riding its own box all the way from Australia to the U.S.
The XXXL Sandal Coral is so large that we couldn’t do underwater/subsurface photography and capture the entire colony. Therefore the resulting images were made with a mix of ambient lighting and flash, resulting in two types of color balance in the images but trust us, this is one coral that nearly took our breath away and we hope it finds a great home in a huge tank in the future.
