RussianBoy Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 ok so totally loved this weird frag at my LFS, was only 10$ actually free with some cheato trade, but there are two heads of the big thing and two little zoa polyps. She said the big things were some kind of candy cane...byt they have no stalk... I have no idea at all about either...anyone have thoughts? Link to comment
Reefbox25 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Some sort of Brain coral? Acans perhaps. Pictures kinda blurry. Link to comment
RussianBoy Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 it's closed cause I touched it... Link to comment
RussianBoy Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 It's just a zoanthid. yeah there is a zoa on it but on the right of it is also a frag of something some japanese candy cane coral or something so the LFS said...they are not even sure it came in on a trade in frag.... Link to comment
nano-reef-er Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 defently a acan. Link to comment
chumcrazy Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 I'm gonna guess from the second pic mushroom, I cant see a wall where the tenticals would come from if it was an acan. If your trying to zoom with your camra dont, try to take a clear pic and then crop it. Link to comment
matt frizz Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 defently a acan. Definitely not an acan. Where is the calcium skeleton? It's a mushroom. Link to comment
anemone fan Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 If you are using a point and shoot camera use the digital macro set up and pull away from the critter. It is much more important to have definition that proximity. Link to comment
Vyker Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 Oh, I was responding to your comment that it closed when you touched it. I didn't know you had two specimens there, and the pic isn't the best. I am going to side on the mushroom team for the other one for similar reasons as described above. Mushrooms stay flat to the rock, acans don't usually. Link to comment
reeftankguy Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 Rhodactis mushroom! Link to comment
IamTomm Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 Looks like a scoly almost. A clearer pic will help. Link to comment
reeftankguy Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 A clearer pic will help. Link to comment
Curly Joe Reefer Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 A scully all the way. Unless It's a Mulder Link to comment
RussianBoy Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 A scully all the way. Unless It's a Mulder WIN lol gonna try to get a better pic... real hard Link to comment
RussianBoy Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 ok I try again.... well there are two heads next to each other.... also like I said the women at the LFS said it was some type of candy cane.... which is why I ask you guys cause I have never seen a candy cane without a big skeleton.... it doesn't open like a candy cane, in fact it doesn't open like an acan....this frag came to them on a huge rock of zoas, there are two of them on this frag as well, but they found these growing on it and wanted to save them... so they fragged them off the mother colony of zoas, I was like ahhhhh misc unknown frag...score cause those are my favorite lol..... Link to comment
TJ_Burton Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Looks like Acanthastrea sp. Link to comment
RussianBoy Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 hmmm maybe, it's so hard to tell, I have seen a lot of corals...but this one has just stumped me Link to comment
nebthet Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 I would say an acan echinata... which is the type that doesn't puff up. Does the coral look anything like the following: Link to comment
Arkayology Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 acan echinata imo, though can't be 100% because the pics kinda suck. Link to comment
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