Coral ID

[gc1962]

What is this corals identification.

 

[spanko]

Pagoda Cup Coral (Turbinaria peltata). a nice one. Have you seen the polyps extend yet?

Picture from paradise pet shop

 

[tizzo]

I have a frag of the coral in my tank, I have never seen polyp extension.

 

[naclh2o nut]

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I was given one to try to save. It only has about 15 polyps on it. I got it with about 10. The flesh is now filling in and the polyps stay out 90% of the day.
Thanks for the pic. now I now what I am working toward.

 

[gc1962]

Have had this coral for one year now and it has never looked like the one in the other pic. You can see some tiny polyps extending just a litte but nothing like that.

 

[gc1962]

I do have a pagoda rock that looks like that with the polyps extended. The polyps on the pagoda rock probably extends at least a inch.

 

[tizzo]

I don't think they are the same, but I'm gonna look into it more.
I always thought mine was a green scroll... Til I googled green scroll and couldn't find it... I'm gonna look into this further...

 

[tizzo]

Ok... Upon further investigation, and the help of Bornemans "Corals" book pg 319, were all kinda on the right track.
A pagoda cup is a turbinaria peltata and has polyp extention.
A simple scroll a turbinaria reniformis, and that greenish yellow color is typical as is the brown yellow.
So in short gc1962, you and I have the reniformis version.

 

[gc1962]

Thanks Tizzo I am going to try and get a close up of mine this week sometime and will post it when I do, it does have some small polyps that come out when the halides are on.

 

[naclh2o nut]

This is a tough guy to please. If I have too much flow on it, then it stays in! Without major flow it gets covered with a dark almost black ?algae?

I have tried to find the mix, (flow) seems to work best with light flow and a toothbrush every other day.