Green Devil's Hand Leather
A variant of Devil's Hand Leather (Lobophytum sp.)
Representative Devil's Hand Leatherphoto — a dedicated image of this exact morph isn't available yet.
The most recognizable colored form of the species: a hand-shaped leather with a dark to rich neon-green base and bright green fuzzy polyps that glow under blue light. In dim light the dark base helps the neon polyps pop, while under strong light the whole colony can flush a rich neon green.
📜 Backstory
This green color form was first spotted in a maricultured soft-coral shipment around 2008-2009 (probably from Pacific Aqua Farms) and was popularized in a 2010 Reef Builders feature that called it 'the coolest leather coral we've seen in a long time'; Pacific Aqua Farms ran their specimen in advertising. It is now propagated and sold widely as 'Green Devil's Hand' by vendors such as Tidal Gardens, LiveAquaria, SaltwaterFish.com and many small fraggers. Origin is a wild/maricultured collection rather than a named hobbyist line, so the original colony is origin debated.
Keeper tips for this variant
Give it moderate to high light and moderate-to-strong, slightly turbulent flow on the lower-to-mid rockwork; good flow keeps detritus off the lobes and triggers regular sloughing (shedding of its waxy film), which is normal and healthy. It is a hardy, non-aggressive beginner soft coral.