Atlantic Live Rock Coral Hitchikers

[tyty]

I received some live rock from sealifeinc a few weeks ago. This stuff was absolutely dripping in life with sponges, corals and macro algae. I highly recommend them.

 

I wanted to post some pictures of the survivors and see if anybody could help me ID a few things, everything is almost certainly native to Sealifeinc's location in the FL keys.

 

1) No polyps on this one, everything is hard. It had bleached a little when I first got the rock, but the color is coming back nicely now.

 

 

 

2) This one has small polyps that move in the current. There are a number of these.

[dtfleming]

1. Favia

2. porties-carribbean kind-nice score this are illegal to harvest.

[tyty]

1. Favia

2. porties-carribbean kind-nice score this are illegal to harvest.

 

Thanks for the IDs. Here are a few more pics.

 

1) I suppose these are porites also, there are lots of small colonies around the tank that are showing varying degrees of success. There are also some small different colored sponges around this one. This is one of the larger colonies:

 

2) What I think is some sort of encrusting sponge, this is a rather large one in comparison to the others that I have.

[dtfleming]

1. yup more porties.- grow them out, frag them and sell them. Alot people looking for Florida Porties.

2. your right again.