If you want a coral that’s both easy to keep and colorful, look no further than the Clove polyps, Clavularia spp. They’ve been in the hobby for decades, but are one of those coral families which have really benefitted from being maricultured in Indonesia, and the effect that Blue LED lighting has on their polyps near lights out. Clove polyps are soft corals (Octocorals,) that belong to the Clavulariidae family, which also includes theJasmine Coral, Knopia sp.
They are easy to characterize by way of their large, fluffy polyps with eight featherlike, pinnate tentacles, only due to selection by coral collectors,(and our lighting,) what used to be a beige soft coral colony can now come in myriad color forms with neon green mouths and purple tentacles with orange streaks that really pop – especially as soft corals go. And we recommend them for reef tanks large and small.
Clavularia polyps spread over rockwork, only due to larger than average stolons that can stand higher than Green star polyps and zoas and spread through them without getting stung. Ours weave through everything from Xeniato Caulastrea, and not seeming to sting or be stung the polyps pop up through the undergrowth like flowers in a flowerbed. If you don’t want them to run and spread throughout your aquascape, confine them to a single rock or island, and they are invasive in some parts of the world.
There are over sixty valid species within the genus but few aquarists or importers identify them past genus level. They’re easy to frag just by pulling colonies apart, clipping or sawing the rock they spread over, or just by using a blade or scissors.
Clavularia耐受水流和中等至低照明的耐受性，尽管我们将它们保留在单个40瓦的LED固定装置到一对high-powered 200-watt fixtures无论哪种方式都没有明显损害。与所有珊瑚一样，我们将它们保持在相当最佳的水条件下，参数接近天然海水。我们每周用珊瑚食品和液体氨基酸喂一次，尽管它们可能会以较高的营养水平繁殖，并且喂食也更频繁。
寻找一个叫火works, which really pops, but even then Clavularia sold as “fireworks” vary in coloration and the fluffiness of those feathery tentacles.
