hitch hicker

[sidos]

when i first got my LR back in may in may it had what i thought at the time was some thick green coralline algea. it faded and died during curing under my NO lights. then after getting new T5 lights a few months after that the green started to come back now i can tell what it really is, some kind of encrusting montipora. i'm realy excited about it, i'll post some pics a little later

 

[viper_930]

Are you sure its a monti? It could just be green coraline like you thought.
Montis wouldn't live through a cycle and probably won't live more than 2-3 weeks or so under NO lights.

 

[sidos]

i could be wrong, here are some photos

 

[viper_930]

Whoa, definitely not coraline! Not sure what it is. Are they fully open in those pics?

 

[sidos]

that's the only way i've seen it

 

[xdave]

I think thats a sponge.

 

[sidos]

anyone else have an idea what this is?

 

[viper_930]

Is it squishy or hard when you touch it?

 

[sidos]

let me go check

 

[sidos]

very hard, retracted a bit when i did

 

[fishgeek01]

it also looks like seperate polyps and i think i can see a mouth in the first pic, i think it is some form of encrusting blasto, micromussen, or some other coral, but i dont think it is a sponge, nice hitch hiker no doubt, i love the color

 

[bojik]

lucky 'extra'. That looks cool.