Test your coral knowledge...

[elfloyd]

Ok... so I bought some coral from GARF. This was a combo pack, eight frags with two or more corals attached. Only problem... I don't know what I have. Pictures are below. Test your coral knowledge and help me with identification.

 

[elfloyd]

Here are the rest...

 

[jennm]

1. Mushroom (Rhodactis, my guess)

2. Zoanthids

3. Xenia

4. Xenia

5. Montipora capricornis perhaps? Hard to see - judging by the shape.

6. Isn't pointing to anything I can see.

7. Xenia or possibly Anthelia (can't see the stalks)

8. Can't see well enough

9 & 10 Palythoa

11. Gorgonian

12. Zoanthids

13. Duncan I think

14. Can't tell

15 & 16. Mushrooms - Rhodactis sp.

17. Gorgonian

18. Can't see

19. Mushroom - Rhodactis or Discosoma

20. Dunno but it looks interesting

21. Zoanthids

22. Zoas or Palys

 

[elfloyd]

Jenn... you are good! Now you gave everyone the answers!

 

[jennm]

Well I could be wrong on some of them too - so feel free to correct me if you think I've made an error or three.

Jenn

 

[jennm]

What's odd is why they'd put more than one specie on the same piece of substrate. I can see that Monti getting nuked by the Xenia sooner or later.

Ditto with the zoanthids choking out whatever shares its substrate.

Odd.

Jenn

 

[elfloyd]

6 is pointing to the crater looking things (2).
I believe 8 is a blue capanela.

 

[swfk44]

i like #13

 

[jennm]

dawgdude;381758 wrote: I just see craters in the rock, not really any coral but I might be wrong.

That's what I saw too. Like maybe something was attached to it at some point, but not anymore, and the "craters" are "scars" on the substrate where something once was?

 

[jennm]

I'm also thinking 20 might be some sort of gorgonian as well.

 

[elfloyd]

Blue Capnella

 

[elfloyd]

Could be... some things broke off in transport.

I'll get some better pictures up of the things in question.

JennM;381772 wrote: That's what I saw too. Like maybe something was attached to it at some point, but not anymore, and the "craters" are "scars" on the substrate where something once was?

 

[elfloyd]

Here are additional pictures of 14, 20 (2), and 22 (previously unnumbered).

 

[elfloyd]

Yep, 22 is POed... I had to empale it with a toothpick (ouch) to keep in in place. But 4 or 5 of the polyps were open earlier this evening.

 

[elfloyd]

Its not like any aptasia I've seen. It's flat, firm, feels leathery, and has about 20 polyps that are green when open.

 

[jennm]

dawgdude;381828 wrote: last one looks liked POed Green star polyp.

That was my thought, to the letter.

Jenn