Is A Leather Coral LPS, SPS or Softie?

[metweezer]

As stated above I would like to know what classification Leather's fall into.
TIA

 

[bang guy]

Softie. Has the same Calcium and Alkalinity requirements of a hard coral though.

 

[coraljunkie]

+1 on the softie

 

[metweezer]

Thanks

 

[fatcat]

Originally Posted by Bang Guy
http:///forum/post/2710678
Softie. Has the same and Alkalinity requirements of a hard coral though.

How dose a leather use Calcium???

 

[mx#28]

Originally Posted by FaTcAt
http:///forum/post/2712127
How dose a leather use Calcium???

Even though they don't have skeletons as we see in the hard corals, they can have numerous little 'skeleton like' pieces called sclerites that are composed of calcium.