Coral ID - please

[ninjamini]

I have some growths that I cant ID. Any idea? The first is not xenia.

 

[paulcoates]

1st could be a palm tree. Are the fingers like feathers?

 

[paulcoates]

what color is the center of the polyps?

 

[ninjamini]

It seems to be that tan brown color. There small but its might be white. It has a base that branches to several polyps. Each polyps has 8 tentacles.

 

[fedukeford]

1st looks like antelia or clove polyps. 2nd and 3rd look like some type of encrusting montipora i think.
Feduke

 

[edat]

Does it look like this?
I have been trying to get a positive ID for a while now.
I cant find anything that looks like it.

 

[kiddie lala]

Originally Posted by fedukeford
1st looks like antelia or clove polyps. 2nd and 3rd look like some type of encrusting montipora i think.
Feduke

I agree with Feduke on the first and second pic. I think the last pic is just some coralline algea.

 

[catawaba]

Clove or anthelia, montipora, sponge.

 

[mudplayerx]

I agree. First pic looks like clove polyps. Could be xenia but I doubt it. Second pic looks like porites/montipora. Third pic looks like calcareous algae that will probably soon be overtaken by pink/purple algae.

 

[craig7220]

Here is pic of my clove.

 

[catawaba]

Originally Posted by edat
Does it look like this?
I have been trying to get a positive ID for a while now.
I cant find anything that looks like it.

Could it be a small toadstool that is reaching for light?

 

[bojik]

I always thought clove polyp was a type of xenia?

 

[puffer32]

Originally Posted by Catawaba
Could it be a small toadstool that is reaching for light?
Yep, its a toadstool.

 

[ninjamini]

Well the coral in the first 2 pics have started to pulse. I guess its xenia.

 

[mudplayerx]

Clove polyps are in the same family as star polyps, not xenia.

 

[ninjamini]

Do clove polyps pulse?

 

[big]

Originally Posted by ninjamini
Do clove polyps pulse?
Mine do not pulse. Here it is. I have little ones like the one in your picture sprouting all over the area . They look like your picture.

 

[mudplayerx]

Originally Posted by ninjamini
Do clove polyps pulse?
I've never heard of them pulsing.

 

[ratrod]

the clove polyps pictured remind me of pipe organ coral :notsure: