Nico Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 Sorry for the poor pic. This coral is growing on my mushroom rock. It's like a mat with polyps which extend during the day and retract to a flat mat like appearance at night...also, they retract quickly with any movement nearby. Polyp centers are neon green. Anyone know what this is? Thnx... Nick The circled area shows the polyp extended. Link to comment
uscreef Posted July 20, 2005 Share Posted July 20, 2005 feather dusters? hard to tell from the pic. Link to comment
minimalist Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Not a feather duster. Don't know what it is though. Link to comment
Nico Posted July 21, 2005 Author Share Posted July 21, 2005 Hey, thnx for the reply's. It's definitely not a feather duster. I'm thinking it could be a flower pot coral...I'm really unsure though. Nick Link to comment
Six Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 doubt its a flower pot. goniopora has 12 tenacles and alveapora has 24, yours has something in between from what i can count. it's pretty cool looking though. it could just be a matting button polyp (zoanthus,palythoa species). Link to comment
fluidimagery Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Looks like they're small clove polyps. Below is a picture of mine. Link to comment
yoshiod9 Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 look like anthocauli from a plate coral. i have some growing out of a chunk of rock too. slow growers for me, but i don't mind them. mine are more of a fluorescent blue/green. quite nice but very very tiny still. Link to comment
Six Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 cloves are octocorals... 8 tentales. the one he has pictured does not have that number. it could be a larval form of some coral... that would be cool. i doubt it, but one can wish. Link to comment
Nico Posted July 21, 2005 Author Share Posted July 21, 2005 Here are some more pic's of it's polyps retracted. Camera is terrible. I think it could be some type of LPS...still very unsure though. Thnx again for all the help! Nick Link to comment
yoshiod9 Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/showth...read.php?t=4207 here's a nice picture of what anthocauli look like...these are coming directly off of an old skeleton, but anthocauli have been found growing directly out of live rock(as mine does and many others i have read about do). Link to comment
DiverDave Posted July 21, 2005 Share Posted July 21, 2005 Whatever it is, it's cool!!! Link to comment
Nico Posted July 22, 2005 Author Share Posted July 22, 2005 yoshiod9, Thnx for the info. I looked into it, but it doesn't look similar. I circled and area in the first pic showing one of the polyps fully extended. The last pic shows it fully retracted to a flat mat like appearance. It look's as if it's a colony of some sort??? Nick Link to comment
yoshiod9 Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 lol. ok, new plan, take the rock as close to the surface of the water as you can and take a picture of it. the pictures you're putting up are, at best, poor(worse than mine even!). perhaps it's a leptastrea sp.: http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/...20pages/221.htm hard to tell really though. get some better pictures and we'll see what we can do! Link to comment
Nico Posted July 22, 2005 Author Share Posted July 22, 2005 lol. Pic's are real bad. I see this unknown coral is bothering you as well. haha. I hate sticking my hands in the tank..i'll have pic's for you tomorrow, most likely bad ones. lol. I do my best though. Nope, not leptastrea but close. I think it may be in the Faviidae family. Thnx again, Nick Link to comment
yoshiod9 Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 lol. unknown corals do bother me. i like to think of it as a puzzle of sorts. if you have time, check out http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/coral...alid_search.php to see if you can find something similar to your coral. that's the site i use most. goodluck, man! Link to comment
steelhealr Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 If it has a reddish base it retracts into, could it be tubipora musica (organ pipe)? SH Link to comment
Nico Posted July 22, 2005 Author Share Posted July 22, 2005 yoshiod9, Thnx for the link...went through it. Unfortunately, I found nothing. Goniopora minor and Goniopora stutchburyi look very similar. Hey steelhealr, The base is a tan gray and it's tentacles resemble more of an anemone than cloves polyps. Definitely not a pipe organ. Thnx... Nick Link to comment
reefer21 Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Nico, I have the same unknown coral on my mushroom rock. I was thinking it was some kind of LPS as well. I tried my best to id this coral but I have had no luck because they are so hard to get a pic of, lol. I do believe it is Goniopora stutchburyi as that what it closely resembles Link to comment
rapier0 Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 def daisy or glove, or clove coral nothing els Link to comment
janasleah Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 From my very imprecise counting I think it has 18 tentacles...if that helps to narrow it down....And did you guys possibly buy this rock at the same store? Link to comment
Caesar777 Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 Has a hard skeleton, correct? (Didn't read the whole thread, sorry)... I'm stuck on Goniopora. Those anthocauli are beautiful....Unique. Link to comment
Nico Posted July 29, 2005 Author Share Posted July 29, 2005 Thnx for all the reply's! reefer21, Wow! We have the same unknown coral growing...i got this mushroom rock from farms-of-thesea. janasleah, Nice counting. Caesar777, I was thinking the same thing. However, after looking into it, I now believe it to be Encrusting Pagoda...thnx to FragMaster. FragMaster, I think your right. I would assume Encrusting Pagoda is a lot more common than Goniopora...I think I read some where that Goniopora is difficult to keep. Thnx... Nick Link to comment
FragMaster Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 It is near impossible to keep! You will hear people say they have had them for more than two years but I think that is BS. They very rarely make it more than 1 year in captivity. They thrive on dirty water and fiecies. Litteraly. The odds it is an encrusting pagoda are much greater than a goni'. Goni's have soft fleshy skeletons where pagodas do not they are hard save for the polyp extensions. ALSO it shares one trate with goni's. If you touch the coral bare handed the oils from your skin will burn it. so dont touch it to see it it is hard to the touch with out a latex glove on. It being so small it might do it in. ALSO encrusting pagoda's have fleshy short polyp extensions. Hope this helps! FragMaster Link to comment
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