HELP!! ID Please

[ifynanceu]

Can anyone tell me what kind of coral this is?? I got it in a trade, it looked cool, and I have no clue what it is oficially...

[Six]

Heliopora. It's like aiptasia, send it to me for disposal.

 

It's an octocoral, so if you don't like soft coral, send it to me.

 

:):)

 

OK- It looks like Heliopora, which, yes, IS a soft coral, and it's also Atlantic, I believe. Not common. It used to be protected but now they are being aquacultured and, I guess, aren't impossible to get, still uncommon though.

 

Pretty sweet animal.

 

((Heliopora - AKA Blue Ridge Coral.))

[ifynanceu]

wow!!! It is a stoney coral, definately not soft...In the am hours and mid day, it has bright pink/white-ish polyps

[Six]

Suprising isn't it? Fo shizzle, it's classified as a soft coral, an octocoral. Mister Borneman's book can back me up- page 113-114. It's monotypic, it's own genus.

 

Look 'er up.

 

Or just send it to me, seriously. I love rare coral

[ifynanceu]

it's a very slow grower too!!!

[bobioden]

Is that an Aiptaisa behind the Heliopora on the left?

 

Hard to tell from the pic.

 

???

 

 

Bob

[sdbeazley]

It looks a dieing like montipora digitata, or at least mine did when I got an unhealty one.

[ifynanceu]

to the left is a pain in the rear...one of those annoying little anenome like aiptasia, but the other type...there is a monti also, but it isn't dying, it's growing like a damn weed!!! I broke a piece by accident, and it fell to the side..I really didn't care because it was a small tip and I figured if it lived, COOL!!! If not, no loss...It was about 1/8" and is now about 1" long!!! It has started encrusting, and will start growing upwards really soon. I have another piece in my take that was the same thing, broke by accident, but because it was bigger, I mounted it. now the 2 1/4" pieces are a flourishing small colony!!