Cluster of round orange coral cups with open centers and short tentacles

Mound sun coral

Tubastraea faulkneri
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Wild Reef
Diet Very small animals called zooplankton and small shrimp and fish
Size 5 inches in diameter
Type Corals & Anemones
Range Found in deep waters in caves and overhangs in the Indian and West-Central Pacific Oceans
Habitat Often found in deep waters of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans because they do not require sunlight for nourishment

Did you know?

  1. They may look like plants but corals are animals. Like other animals they find their own food and they move freely (even if it’s just at the beginning of their lifecycle).
  2. You can help keep wild corals healthy! Use natural cleaners in the home and natural fertilizers on the lawn. Traveling from your drain to the ocean, a pound of phosphorus can create a 500-pound bloom of harmful algae that suffocate corals.