Little research has been conducted on soft corals with identification of some species being virtually impossible. Sclerites (or spicules) distributed throughout the coral tissue are an important identification tool.
Starting Out: for those people just in the hobby ( 23 items ) Starting out in the reef keeping hobby? Then this catagory covers some of the more basic questions on setting up an aquarium for the first time.
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