PieMan2k Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 Anyone know the name of this coral? I love this and I want to know what I need to do to take care of it. Link to comment
Bingo1213 Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 The pic makes it a bit hard to tell but it looks like either a Duncan or a clove polyp. The cove is a softie and the Duncan is an Lps. Both are pretty easy. Just make sure you have good moderate lighting and moderate flow. Duncan's in my experience do much better if fed mysis shrimp once or so a week. Other wise they are very simple! Link to comment
PieMan2k Posted October 5, 2015 Author Share Posted October 5, 2015 It's neither of those. It is like a stone shell but the polyps don't come out of the base more than that. I don't currently have another picture and won't get another one for 2 weeks because I'm at my moms house. But it's like a stone with little polyps that come out about that far and if it's close to the sand it will send tenticles out and sift the sand. They aren't sweeper tenticles because it doesn't sting the corals near it. Link to comment
D Z Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Maybe an alveopora that is not fully extended? How long have you had it? Does it always look like that, or does it retract more at night? Link to comment
clownfitch Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Looks like a Galaxea Coral. Link to comment
D Z Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Looks like a Galaxea Coral. Didn't think of that....could very well be. Link to comment
PieMan2k Posted October 5, 2015 Author Share Posted October 5, 2015 It's not that either. I will ask my dad if he can get a nice shot with it from the camera and not a phone pic. It does look like galexa but with the little spikes cut off when it's retracted Link to comment
PieMan2k Posted October 5, 2015 Author Share Posted October 5, 2015 Galaxea astreata after some research it's one of these but in a rounded shape Link to comment
clownfitch Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Galaxea astreata after some research it's one of these but in a rounded shape They shape to what ever the skeleton grows over. Link to comment
TJ_Burton Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 I agree with the Galaxea ID; take a picture with the polyps closed and that will certainly help us get an accurate ID. Link to comment
PieMan2k Posted October 6, 2015 Author Share Posted October 6, 2015 Will do. Won't be for about 2 weeks tho. I will be getting rid of it because it's an aggressive coral. Link to comment
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