Peaches Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 When I had my last tank 5 years back I had a dark brown soft coral which you can see in the background of the shrimp photo and center right of the FTS. The polyps were relatively short. For what would normally be a boring brown coral I really liked this one. Quote Link to comment
Pjanssen Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Sorry, It's hard to tell from those photos. Maybe some kind of Sinularia? 1 Quote Link to comment
Ratvan Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Looks a bit like an Anthelia, if i am looking at the right one 3 Quote Link to comment
EthanPhillyCheesesteak Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Looks like a flower pot coral? Is that the same as a anthelia? Not good with the scientific names😂. It also could just be a zoa colony maybe. I’ve seen zoas and palys with feeder tentacles that long 1 Quote Link to comment
Peaches Posted March 6, 2020 Author Share Posted March 6, 2020 3 hours ago, Ratvan said: Looks a bit like an Anthelia, if i am looking at the right one I'm not sure about anthelia, it wasn't quite that wavey from memory. It was more the length of GSP. I'll see if I can hunt out a better photo. 1 Quote Link to comment
Peaches Posted March 6, 2020 Author Share Posted March 6, 2020 4 hours ago, Pjanssen said: Sorry, It's hard to tell from those photos. Maybe some kind of Sinularia? That's a leather type coral right? I couldn't find any photos on Google that looked like a match 2 Quote Link to comment
Peaches Posted March 6, 2020 Author Share Posted March 6, 2020 2 hours ago, EthanPhillyCheesesteak said: Looks like a flower pot coral? Is that the same as a anthelia? Not good with the scientific names😂. It also could just be a zoa colony maybe. I’ve seen zoas and palys with feeder tentacles that long Flower pot tend to be quite long and wavey like xenia. I've got a photo of it next to some xenia and it's much shorter in comparison. Underneath it didn't have the zoa colony nubs. I think everyone's guesses are on the right track but I haven't found a photo that matches yet Quote Link to comment
Peaches Posted March 6, 2020 Author Share Posted March 6, 2020 Is this photo any more help? 2 Quote Link to comment
Ratvan Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 8 minutes ago, Peaches said: I'm not sure about anthelia, it wasn't quite that wavey from memory. It was more the length of GSP. I'll see if I can hunt out a better photo. Briareum? 2 Quote Link to comment
Peaches Posted March 6, 2020 Author Share Posted March 6, 2020 8 minutes ago, Ratvan said: Briareum? I think you might be onto something there, that looks quite promising 1 Quote Link to comment
Pjanssen Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 3 hours ago, Peaches said: Is this photo any more help? 3 hours ago, Ratvan said: Briareum? Much better picture. Yes. Check out @billygoat caribbean tank, he has some briareum in there. 2 Quote Link to comment
billygoat Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Briareum looks a whole lot like GSP (and is indeed very closely related), except it's brown instead of green. Mine's quite a bit lighter in color than what you've got in the picture, but I know there's a lot of variance in soft corals so it could still be the same thing. Kinda hard to tell from comparing the photos but maybe this helps: 1 Quote Link to comment
DISQUALIFIED-QQ Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 I wonder if it is a Cespitularia sp? My first reaction was Anthelia. Quote Link to comment
Peaches Posted March 7, 2020 Author Share Posted March 7, 2020 7 hours ago, billygoat said: Briareum looks a whole lot like GSP (and is indeed very closely related), except it's brown instead of green. Mine's quite a bit lighter in color than what you've got in the picture, but I know there's a lot of variance in soft corals so it could still be the same thing. Kinda hard to tell from comparing the photos but maybe this helps: This must be what it was. Just a really dark variety Quote Link to comment
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