• Name:

    Brown Button Polyp

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  • Family: Zoanthidae
  • Species: Palythoa
  • Scientific Name: Protopalythoa sp
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Also Know As:

| Moon Polyps

| Sea Mat

| Encrusting Anemones

General info about Brown Button Polyp

In general, corals coming from the genus Palythoa are classified as zoanthids with colonies that are embedded hard in the substrate and is often covered by its protruding polyps. Each polyp has an oral disc or mouth that is flat in shape and surrounded by a fringe of tentacles.
 
For the Brown Button Polyp, they are predominantly colored brown with white mouth. This are the water paramaters in cultivating Brown Button Polyp:
  • Calcium: 380 - 430 ppm
  • Alkalinity: 3.2 - 4.5 MEQ/L
  • Phosphates: 0
  • Magnesium: 1250 - 1300 ppm
  • Strontium: 8 - 10
  • Temperature: 72° - 82° F (22° - 27° C)
  • Salinity / Specific Gravity: 1.023 - 1.025

Brown Button Polyp Diet & Nutrition

In the wild, Brown Button Polyp has developed a symbiotic feeding relationship with marine algae called zooxanthellae. But in captivity, you have to feed them with nanoplankton or dissolved organics.

Fragging / Propagating Brown Button Polyp

A mature tank is highly recommended in propagating Brown Button Polyp. They should be set in the middle or top part of the tank where they will receive the most amount of light.

Flow / Lighting Requirements for Brown Button Polyp

Brown Button Polyp requires strong lighting and moderate waterflow.

Parasites & Diseases that Affect Brown Button Polyp

While the Brown Button Polyp are easy to maintain, you have to be alert for filamentous algae that can overgrow and smother their polyps. They are also prone to box snail which feeds on them, so you need to remove this particular snail from the tank. You also have to look out for large crustaceans and fish like angelfish and butterflyfish that nibbles on their tentacles.

Brown Button Polyp Origin

Brown Button Polyp are abundant and can be found in the waters of the Indo-Pacific Ocean.

Caution Should be Taken with Brown Button Polyp

Brown Button Polyp are known to posses high levels of palytoxin and vibrio bacteria especially in their mucus. So, you need to wear gloves in handling them.

How to Acclimate Brown Button Polyp

Brown Button Polyp are purely marine. So, therefore, salinity must be maintained thoroughly at 1.023 to 1.025 specific gravity.

Stinging Tentacles on Brown Button Polyp

Since the Brown Button Polyp contains toxins and bateria, you have give them ample space so that they cannot sting other coral species.

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Name Species Family Scientific Name More Detail Added by
Brown Button Polyp Palythoa Zoanthidae Protopalythoa sp
In general, corals coming from the genus Palythoa are classified as zoanthids with colonies that are embedded hard in the substrate and is often covered by its protruding polyps. Each polyp has an oral disc or mouth that is flat in shape and surrounded by a fringe of tentacles.
 
For the Brown Button Polyp, they are predominantly colored brown with white mouth. This are the water paramaters in cultivating Brown Button Polyp:
  • Calcium: 380 - 430 ppm
  • Alkalinity: 3.2 - 4.5 MEQ/L
  • Phosphates: 0
  • Magnesium: 1250 - 1300 ppm
  • Strontium: 8 - 10
  • Temperature: 72° - 82° F (22° - 27° C)
  • Salinity / Specific Gravity: 1.023 - 1.025
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