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Colonies of Thesea pyrrha are white, yellow, orange or red, 3 to 10 cm tall and 3 to 9 cm wide, growing flat to sparsely bushy.
Branches upward to 6th order, terminal branches between 0.5 - 6.7 cm long. The main branch is 2.5 to 18 cm long and 5 to 15 mm wide.
Branch thickness varies from slender proximally to thicker in the middle part; tips are rounded and slightly slender.
Polyps are only on the branches, arranged in four alternate main rows, sometimes irregularly.
Etymology. The species name "pyrrha" (Gr. pyrrhos, flaming, red, yellowish-red) alludes to the "flaming color of living specimens", which ranges from bright red to yellowish-red.
Recommendation - the coral should be kept in a species-specific tank.
Feeding
Gorgonians do not have zooxanthellae and do not live off light. Azooxanthellate gorgonians do not host symbiotic algae that produce nutrients and energy through photosynthesis.
The pumps should be switched off before feeding. In order for the gorgonian to survive in the aquarium, each individual polyp must be fed sufficiently, i.e. daily or 3-4 times a week. Without feeding, the gorgonian will not survive in the aquarium. The polyps need a certain amount of time to absorb the food (granules or dust food (Ultramarin, Cyclop Eeze) or frozen food (lobster eggs, mysis)). If shrimp and fish are present, they will try to steal the food, so it is essential to feed these cohabitants beforehand.
Newly introduced gorgonian sticks can be stimulated with a liquid food, e.g., PolypLab Polyp, to encourage the individual polyps to open. Only then can feeding be carried out.
The better the individual polyps take up the food provided, the better the growth and reproduction rates will be.
Azooxanthellate corals eat suspensions, marine snow, microplankton, and other organic matter, which is their natural food.
Source:
Thesea pyrrha sp. nov., a new shallow-water octocoral (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from southwestern Atlantic, and implications on the systematics of the genus
Autoren: Ágatha Nascimento Carpinelli, Ralf Tarciso Silva Cordeiro, Clóvis Barreira e Castro, Marcelo Visentini Kitahara
DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5116.1.4
Branches upward to 6th order, terminal branches between 0.5 - 6.7 cm long. The main branch is 2.5 to 18 cm long and 5 to 15 mm wide.
Branch thickness varies from slender proximally to thicker in the middle part; tips are rounded and slightly slender.
Polyps are only on the branches, arranged in four alternate main rows, sometimes irregularly.
Etymology. The species name "pyrrha" (Gr. pyrrhos, flaming, red, yellowish-red) alludes to the "flaming color of living specimens", which ranges from bright red to yellowish-red.
Recommendation - the coral should be kept in a species-specific tank.
Feeding
Gorgonians do not have zooxanthellae and do not live off light. Azooxanthellate gorgonians do not host symbiotic algae that produce nutrients and energy through photosynthesis.
The pumps should be switched off before feeding. In order for the gorgonian to survive in the aquarium, each individual polyp must be fed sufficiently, i.e. daily or 3-4 times a week. Without feeding, the gorgonian will not survive in the aquarium. The polyps need a certain amount of time to absorb the food (granules or dust food (Ultramarin, Cyclop Eeze) or frozen food (lobster eggs, mysis)). If shrimp and fish are present, they will try to steal the food, so it is essential to feed these cohabitants beforehand.
Newly introduced gorgonian sticks can be stimulated with a liquid food, e.g., PolypLab Polyp, to encourage the individual polyps to open. Only then can feeding be carried out.
The better the individual polyps take up the food provided, the better the growth and reproduction rates will be.
Azooxanthellate corals eat suspensions, marine snow, microplankton, and other organic matter, which is their natural food.
Source:
Thesea pyrrha sp. nov., a new shallow-water octocoral (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from southwestern Atlantic, and implications on the systematics of the genus
Autoren: Ágatha Nascimento Carpinelli, Ralf Tarciso Silva Cordeiro, Clóvis Barreira e Castro, Marcelo Visentini Kitahara
DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5116.1.4
