Tube+Coral

**P﻿hyla**: Cnidaria

**Class**: Anthozoa

**Scientific Name**: Tubastrea micracantha

**Common Name**: Black Tube Coral

**Location**: Indo-Pacific Ocean and the Red Sea. 

**Length**: 2 to 6 in.
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**Habitat**: It is often found on reef ledges or steep reef slopes.

**Living requirements**: fragile, does not contain the symbiotic algae zooxanthellae. Instead, it must be regularly fed vitamin-enriched brine shrimp or micro-plankton.

**Life cycle**: It is nocturnal (feeds at night), spreading its tentacles at night.

**Male and Female Differences**: They produce through budding.

**Interesting Facts**: Only the dead skeleton is black. It comes in various colors: yellow, brown, orange, grey.

**Human impacts**:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Pollution
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Overfishing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Tourism
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Aquarium/Souvenir Trade
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Global Climate Change

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