OGA Byzantine Blue Mushroom

About the OGA Byzantine Blue Mushroom

Care Level: Easy
Temperament: Peaceful

Reef Safe: Yes
Diet: Filter Feeder
Minimum Tank Size: 10 Gallons
Placement: Bottom to Middle
Lighting: Low to Moderate
Waterflow: Moderate

The OGA Byzantine Blue Mushroom is of the discosoma variety. It has smooth skin with slight low bumps throughout its polyp. The deep and stunning blue color this mushroom has makes it worthy of its name as the Byzantine empire was also known for its wonderful colors. This mushroom is best viewed in a whiter light as its color isn’t as dependent on the actinic spectrum. However, this mushroom is guaranteed to look great wherever you decide to put it! This fast-growing mushroom will replicate like how most species do by slowly “walking” along the substrate leaving behind pieces of their foot which grow to be their own polyp in time.

Mushroom Corals are often found in tropical waters and has many forms that can be found in many different colors, consist of either a single organism or a colony if individuals. In most genera, a single polyp emerges from the center of the skeleton to feed at night, while others have a narrow column topped with a wide disc, and tentacles that are short and arranged in rows radiating from the center, where the mouth is. Mushroom Corals contain zooxanthellae which allows the Mushroom nutrition through photosynthesis. Some Mushrooms are immobile as well as colonial, while most species remain fully detached from the substrate in adulthood. Some Mushrooms are even closely related to stony or reef building corals known as Scleractinia, and can even have similar characteristics, with the exception of the absence of a stony skeleton itself.