![]() ![]() ![]() In most cases the corals for sale in the photo and the coral you buy and are from the same mother coral colony. This is most common when we have a great deal of the same live coral. For those corals that do not say WYSIWYG, the photos are representative of the species, size and color of the coral for sale you will receive. If you purchase one of these live corals for sale, you will receive the actual coral for sale in the photo. This stands for " What You See Is What You Get". Want to find out more about the live corals you're looking to purchase? Check out our articles under Corals and Coral Care. Saturday pickup at a UPS location costs the same as delivery during the week. Just let us know the UPS Access Point you would like to use. If you pick up your coral order at a UPS location on Saturday this charge is not required. Contact us if you live in a rural area to verify Saturday delivery. Some rural areas do not have Saturday delivery as an option. Add the Saturday Residential Delivery surcharge if you want delivery to your home address on Saturday. On a budget? Get free shipping on your order in the U.S. Since these live corals are aquacultured corals, they have no impact on our natural reef systems around the world. Also available are aquacultured corals, which are more often hardier and more successful in the home reef aquariums. We have many LPS, soft corals, rare corals, coral frags and the very colorful SPS corals for sale. It is present in a number of marine parks which gives it some level of protection.Salty Underground brings you the highest quality live corals for sale. The chief threats it faces, as do other reef corals, are raised sea temperatures, ocean acidification and reef destruction. Another factor that helps to maintain populations is the high level of recruitment of juvenile corals which is in contrast to the recruitment failures of the pineapple coral ( Dichocoenia stokesi). It is also subject to coral diseases such as white plague and black band disease. This is because, although it is effected by coral bleaching, it is more resistant than some other species and usually recovers. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species lists Meandrina meandrites as being of " Least Concern". It is generally the coral most frequently seen in the deeper parts of its range. It tolerates locations with high levels of sedimentation and turbidity. Its favoured depth range is 8 to 30 metres (26 to 98 ft) but it occurs at any depth less than 80 metres (260 ft). It mainly occurs on the seaward sides of reefs but does also occur on back slopes. Meandrina meandrites is found in Bermuda, Florida, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Bahamas. The polyps are large but are only protruded at night when they cover and obscure the skeleton of the coral. There is a slight indentation running along the crest of the walls where the septa from adjoining corallites meet. The raised walls between the corallites are formed from fine but widely separated transverse ridges called septa and meander over the surface of the coral. The corallites, the calcareous cups secreted by the polyps, are 1 to 2 cm (0.4 to 0.8 in) wide. ![]() ![]() These resemble young colonies of rose coral ( Manicina areolata) and may be found in sandy or muddy areas some way from reefs. Some small colonies are cone-shaped and are not attached to the substrate. Meandrina meandrites forms massive hemispherical heads or develops into substantial flat plates and can grow to nearly 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) in diameter. It is found primarily on outer coral reef slopes in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Meandrina meandrites, commonly known as maze coral, is a species of colonial stony coral in the family Meandrinidae. ![]()
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