{"title":"Corals Customer Favorites","description":"The LiveAquaria® Corals Customer Favorites Category offers a fantastic selection of our best-selling corals at a great low price. Find a wonderful assortment of popular corals for your reef aquarium in one convenient spot. Pursue your reef aquarium hobby with greater convenience when you shop our Corals Customer Favorites Category at LiveAquaria®.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nShop LiveAquaria® with confidence knowing all aquatic life from LiveAquaria® is backed by our 7-day Arrive Alive, Stay Alive guarantee. Add to your existing reef aquarium or stock your new setup with popular coral species on sale.","products":[{"product_id":"bubble-coral","title":"Bubble Coral","description":"The Bubble Coral is a beautiful LPS coral that originates from the reefs of the Indo-Pacific. It has a green or white-ridged hard skeleton that can be seen when the polyps are deflated. When inflated, the large fleshy polyps will cover the entire skeleton, and are green, white or yellowish in color. Like many other LPS corals, they do posses sweeper tentacles that can harm other corals within reach.\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe Bubble Coral requires a moderate level of lighting combined with low to moderate water movement in the aquarium. Too much water flow may impede the coral from fully expanding. The fleshy polyps of Bubble Corals are very fragile and will puncture easily. Be careful when handling these corals, to only handle them by the hard skeleton. Because they can form long sweeper tentacles, be sure to provide plenty of room to prevent damage being done to its neighbors. 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Its genus name, \u003cem\u003eCaulastrea\u003c\/em\u003e, comes from the Latin \u003cem\u003ekaulos\u003c\/em\u003e (stalk), and aster (star) describing its skeletal structure consisting of tubular stalks with stars on each tip. The plump circular polyps are vibrant green, yellow, or blue and brown, with the Candy Cane Coral from Tonga being a brilliant translucent green to teal and brown, and each tip is white. Under actinic light its colorful polyps will stand out from most other corals.\n\u003cp\u003e\nIt is hardy and a relatively peaceful reef inhabitant, with very short sweeper tentacles. 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The LiveAquaria® CCGC Aquacultured Tricolor Goniastrea Coral in this alluring purple, green and blue color morph will beautifully satisfy your need for color. The deep purple and blue coloration of the meaty lobes provides the perfect background to set off the minty green coloration of the oral disc. This amazing color combination injects an exciting \"POP\" of color sure to elicit compliments as well as a bit of reef envy. The Goniastrea Brain Coral is a great addition for LPS collectors as well as any reef aquarium enthusiast.\n\u003cp\u003e\nCare for Goniastrea Brain Coral is relatively easy, making it an excellent choice for the beginner to expert hobbyist. The Goniastrea Brain Coral requires moderate lighting combined with medium water movement within the aquarium. Similar to its cousins, the Favia corals, the Goniastrea Brain Coral expands its sweeper tentacles at night well beyond the base. 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