Need help on identity
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Topic: Need help on identity
Posted By: JustAddSalt
Subject: Need help on identity
Date Posted: October 23 2012 at 11:28pm
Hope someone can help me to identify this guy?  |
Replies:
Posted By: joelduval1
Date Posted: October 24 2012 at 1:48am
| Looks like Colt Coral. Is it soft or hard? |
Posted By: JustAddSalt
Date Posted: October 24 2012 at 7:33am
| It's supposed to be a hard coral |
Posted By: joelduval1
Date Posted: October 24 2012 at 10:12am
| Hmm I'm no expert, it looks like colt. But if its hard than I have no idea, sps isn't my thing. |
Posted By: BobC63
Date Posted: October 24 2012 at 12:07pm
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Looks alot like a Colt or maybe Kenya Tree.
Gary, if you touch it, does it bend?
Does it 'sway' in the current? Not the little polyps, but the whiole thing...
a hard (SPS) coral won't do either. ------------- - My Current Tank: 65g Starfire (sitting empty for 2+ years) - * Marine & Reef tanks since 1977 * |
Posted By: fdc_guy
Date Posted: October 24 2012 at 12:09pm
| Looks like green bubble algae to me...with a tree like structure on it. |
Posted By: BobC63
Date Posted: October 24 2012 at 12:12pm
 I think he is asking about the 'tree like structure"on there , Dave
Hopefully not about those little green round things...
------------- - My Current Tank: 65g Starfire (sitting empty for 2+ years) - * Marine & Reef tanks since 1977 * |
fdc_guy wrote:Posted By: JustAddSalt
Date Posted: October 24 2012 at 12:46pm
| Ya was just asking about the.. 'tree' thing.. But thanks about the heads up on those bubbles spreading that algae. |
Posted By: joelduval1
Date Posted: October 24 2012 at 4:35pm
| Justaddsalt, is it hard or soft to the touch? If its soft or "meaty" feeling than its Colt Coral. |
Posted By: JustAddSalt
Date Posted: October 24 2012 at 4:47pm
| K it's soft to the touch.. So I have Colt.. Thanks everyone |
Posted By: ReefdUp
Date Posted: October 24 2012 at 4:53pm
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It's probably a Sinularia species (leather coral) with green Valonia (bubble algae). Sinularias are a soft coral, but they are composed of tiny calcium splinters (spicules) that can align and allow them to be semi-rigid or flow in the current. When they die, they do not leave behind a skeleton - just very tiny splinters. ------------- www.reefdup.com Diving since 2009, reefkeeping since 2007, & fishkeeping since 1987 200g, 75g, & 15g Systems PADI Advanced Open Water |
Posted By: JustAddSalt
Date Posted: October 24 2012 at 5:01pm
| Kool thanks for the info |
Posted By: JustAddSalt
Date Posted: October 24 2012 at 5:02pm
| Does anyone have a pic of what they look like when they get bigger |
Posted By: ReefdUp
Date Posted: October 24 2012 at 5:56pm
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http://www.tidalgardens.com/pages/coral/sinularia.html ------------- www.reefdup.com Diving since 2009, reefkeeping since 2007, & fishkeeping since 1987 200g, 75g, & 15g Systems PADI Advanced Open Water |
Posted By: JBeck
Date Posted: October 29 2012 at 9:22pm
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Posted By: JBeck
Date Posted: October 29 2012 at 9:23pm
Here's the one in my tank  |
Posted By: joelduval1
Date Posted: October 30 2012 at 1:41am
| Jbeck, that looks amazing! I've never seen one so big and full like that. Major props sir! |
Posted By: JustAddSalt
Date Posted: October 30 2012 at 6:36am
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I agree that is a impressive coral you have there. Thanks for the pic. |