Coral I.D. Please
- Thread starter meowzer
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naclh2o nut
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Hey Meowzer, Just read yesterday that these are very rapid spreaders. They said to not allow it to attach to rock. I have some and was looking it up, mine was on the rock , now it is in sand as was told. I tend to be safe rather then sorry. If it doesn't spread in the next couple of months then it might get its perch back.
Just thought I would let you have a heads up.
Hey Meowzer, Just read yesterday that these are very rapid spreaders. They said to not allow it to attach to rock. I have some and was looking it up, mine was on the rock , now it is in sand as was told. I tend to be safe rather then sorry. If it doesn't spread in the next couple of months then it might get its perch back.
Just thought I would let you have a heads up.
maryg
Member
Originally Posted by meowzer
http:///forum/post/2965580
Can anyone tell me what this coral is...I looked thru all the corals in this site and can't seem to match it with anything.
Thanks
Looks like pipe organ to me. They are soft but have a stony base.
http:///forum/post/2965580
Can anyone tell me what this coral is...I looked thru all the corals in this site and can't seem to match it with anything.
Thanks
Looks like pipe organ to me. They are soft but have a stony base.
spanko
Active Member
Not convinced it is pipe organ. Here is some info on Tubipora musica identification. From Arkive.
"Unlike most corals, it is not colourful polyps that make organ pipe corals attractive, but instead, their dark red coloured skeleton (2). The skeleton is composed of thin tubes, or pipes, (hence its common name), which are two millimetres in diameter and cemented together by horizontal plates at intervals of several centimetres (3). Unless the colony has been damaged, a mass of greenish-brown or grey polyps, each with eight tentacles, obscures the skeleton (2) (4). These colonies can form mounds up to 50 centimetres in diameter and may dominate large patches of reef (3). There are at least two species, only one of which is named; Tubipora musica (2). The structure of the tentacles of different colonies of T. musica varies greatly; some have broad feather-like pinnae (tiny projections) down the sides of the tentacles, whilst others have no pinnae at all (2)."
"Unlike most corals, it is not colourful polyps that make organ pipe corals attractive, but instead, their dark red coloured skeleton (2). The skeleton is composed of thin tubes, or pipes, (hence its common name), which are two millimetres in diameter and cemented together by horizontal plates at intervals of several centimetres (3). Unless the colony has been damaged, a mass of greenish-brown or grey polyps, each with eight tentacles, obscures the skeleton (2) (4). These colonies can form mounds up to 50 centimetres in diameter and may dominate large patches of reef (3). There are at least two species, only one of which is named; Tubipora musica (2). The structure of the tentacles of different colonies of T. musica varies greatly; some have broad feather-like pinnae (tiny projections) down the sides of the tentacles, whilst others have no pinnae at all (2)."
