Cat’s eye bubble coral

Community submission by Phu Huynh

Cat's Eye Bubble Coral is a seriously underrated LPS — those translucent, grape-like vesicles inflate to an impressive size and glow under blue light in a way that most showier corals can't match. Bottom placement with medium light and genuinely low flow; the bubbles are hydraulic structures that will retract and never fully re-extend if the current is too strong, and once that happens people think the coral is dying. sinuosa has sweeper tentacles that deploy at night and reach further than you'd expect — give it a full six inches of clearance from neighbors or you'll have chemical warfare casualties by morning. Feed meaty foods like small chunks of shrimp or mysis directly onto the vesicles once or twice a week at night when the sweepers are out; this is a coral that genuinely benefits from targeted feeding and will show it with size.