Can anyone ID this?
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fedukeford
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zoos, does it come out of a skeleton type thing, or do the polyps just close up at night?
blb9
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Thank you all for the feedback! I'm sorry I did'nt post more info, but here it is-
-there is a hard skeleton that the coral retracts in during the night when it is disturbed
-the polyps have connected tissue that swells up
-the coral has been in my tank for 9 months. this photo is one of two colonies
-the second colony succumbed to brown jelly infections until it was invisible, but the it miraculously revived and is now growing quickly. More than 40 polyps are visible in this colony.
-when I first noticed these colonies, they greatly resembled goniopora(they had a 'stem' to thier polyps)
-this causes me to think they are gonioporas, but I have never heard of a goniopora surviving a massive tissue die-off to brown jelly before
-there is a hard skeleton that the coral retracts in during the night when it is disturbed
-the polyps have connected tissue that swells up
-the coral has been in my tank for 9 months. this photo is one of two colonies
-the second colony succumbed to brown jelly infections until it was invisible, but the it miraculously revived and is now growing quickly. More than 40 polyps are visible in this colony.
-when I first noticed these colonies, they greatly resembled goniopora(they had a 'stem' to thier polyps)
-this causes me to think they are gonioporas, but I have never heard of a goniopora surviving a massive tissue die-off to brown jelly before
fishieness
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Originally Posted by Jam1e
holy crap .. it's amillion little feather dusters! .. i thought so at first but didn't say anything but retracting into tubes is definetly a caracteristic of them .. sorry about the spelling
naw. those are def not feather dusters. im sticking to goniopora. they will also contract their polyps at night into their skeleton. never did it mention tubes. only a skeleton
holy crap .. it's amillion little feather dusters! .. i thought so at first but didn't say anything but retracting into tubes is definetly a caracteristic of them .. sorry about the spelling
naw. those are def not feather dusters. im sticking to goniopora. they will also contract their polyps at night into their skeleton. never did it mention tubes. only a skeleton
fish-man-t
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my guess is i dont know but i do no thats it looks very pretty and you have a very nice piece whats ever it it
fishieness
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Originally Posted by Jam1e
well .. is it more of a tube sticking out with a hole on the end or just a hole where it was?
but look. there are obvious centers. it isnt just feathers.
well .. is it more of a tube sticking out with a hole on the end or just a hole where it was?
but look. there are obvious centers. it isnt just feathers.