Lazy Daisies Clove Polyps (LCH Favorite!)

Lazy Daisies look like somebody planted a patch of tiny daisies in the reef and forgot to mention they were actually coral. Bright green centers are surrounded by white, feather-like tentacles, and when a colony is fully open it can look more like a little flower garden than a Pipe Organ Coral.

Tubipora musica is an unusual soft coral because it builds a hard calcium carbonate skeleton made up of small pipe-like tubes. A polyp sits at the end of each tube with eight feather-like tentacles that stay extended during the day and quickly pull back when disturbed.

Lazy Daisies are easy to keep and don’t require intense lighting. We recommend around 50–100 PAR with moderate flow for most tanks. They can also do extremely well around 200–300 PAR, where the polyps can become incredibly white, but there’s a catch: algae growing between the polyps can quickly become a problem. If your tank stays free of fibrous algae such as hair algae, higher light can produce their best look. If algae occasionally makes an appearance, keeping them under lower light can help reduce the chance of it getting established between the polyps and choking them out.