作为合适的珊瑚书呆子，无论其水族馆的适合性如何，我们一直在寻找不同的珊瑚。在世界各地潜水时，我们经常在浅水中遇到这个珊瑚属，从来没有真正理解过，为什么在水族馆现场永远不会看到这些华丽的珊瑚。我们最好的选择是缺乏信息和取笑……所以我们走了！
The funny thing, is that thisCoscinaraea columnais actually a very common, shallow water, protected turbid bay all over the Indo-Pacific. We found many in Indonesia, and we found a lot in Australia too. As usual, we are always more interested by dirty reefs than clean reefs, as we always find some odd corals in there. While clear offshore reefs, tend to be more predictable and god knows, we love weird corals!
So in Australia during the monsoon, access to the offshore reefs is not easy, as conditions are never good enough. Anyway together with Nic from Ultra Coral Australia, we found some very nice specimen of theCoscinaraea，在麦凯周围的肮脏浅礁上。
通常，这种巨大或包裹的珊瑚在非常浅水的水中产生一些小的颠簸/结节，同时倾向于将其倒入更深的水中。这种珊瑚在这些浅礁上绝对发光。在自然的阳光下，明亮的粉红色真的很棒。不幸的是，蓝光并不是真正弹出明亮粉红色的最佳灯，它变成了淡淡的深紫色。但是对于某些仍然喜欢明亮的白光的人来说，这是一个非常丰富多彩的珊瑚。
我们发现一些标本,还有绿色的触角,would make very interesting aquarium corals. Hopefully some will be shipped in the near future, and we will find out, how it turns out in the reef tank world. We sincerely believe that some of these have a great potential.
它在非常浅的礁石中发现，深度不到10英尺（3m），整天都在强烈的亮光下沐浴。并在季风季节浸入食物汤中，当浅水在地面下方的浅水变成浓缩的浮游盆中。因此，这是一个沉重的喂食器，白天伸出了触手。从我们的农业经验来看，考虑到正确的条件，它也是快速种植者。
We’re sure, that we will start to see more of this coral in the near future!
