Eco-Friendly Purple Flat Blade Gorgonian

About the Eco-Friendly Purple Flat Blade Gorgonian:

Care Level: Moderate
Temperament: Peaceful
Reef Safe: Yes
Diet: Filter Feeder
Minimum Tank Size: 10 Gallons
Lighting: Moderate
Water Flow: Moderate
Placement: Middle

The Eco-Friendly Purple Flat Blade Gorgonian is a beautiful purple color with polyps on the edges of the blades. They prefer medium lighting and moderate water flow.  Sometimes the Purple Flat Blade Gorgonian will need to shed its waxy film to promote new tissue growth.

Eco-Friendly Gorgonians are sustainably produced by collecting small frags from the Caribbean.   The frags are attached to plugs where they are grown in a greenhouse until the adult colonies are then fragged and sold for the home aquarium.

A Gorgonian, also known as sea whip or sea fan, is an order soft coral found throughout the oceans of the world, especially in the tropics and subtropics. Gorgonians grow individual tiny polyps form a colonies that are normally erect, flattened, branching, and reminiscent of a fan, while others may be whiplike, bushy, or even encrusting. Each Gorgonian polyp has about eight tentacles, which catch plankton and particulate matter that is consumed through a process called filter feeding. However, some Gorgonians contain algae, or zooxanthellae which allows a symbiotic relationship to exist and assists in giving the Gorgonian nutrition through photosynthesis.