Lighting on the first day?

jjjoey

Active Member
i got 2 corals today was wondering when or if i should turn on the lights
a mushroom and daisy coral
 

xtreeme

Member
not sure about the daisy. The mushroom is a anenome not a coral. I just got some red ones. I had the light on it opened up doing good I think. My first so hard to tell lol.
 
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nereef

Guest
sorry to hijack...but i'm going to clear up the anemone/coral/mushroom discussion.
anemones, true corals, and mushrooms are all cnidarians belonging even to the same class: anthozoa. they all, however, have their own orders. anemones=Actiniaria. true corals=Scleractinia. mushrooms=Corallimorpharia. therefore: mushrooms aren't anemones. mushrooms aren't corals. anemones aren't corals. corals aren't anemones. any way you want to flip it.
rant over.
 

xtreeme

Member
LOL confusing. Thanks for the info. Why do they call them Disc anemones or carpet anemone?
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/corallim.htm
Coral Anemones, False Corals, Mushrooms: Order Corallimorpharia
Phylum Cnidaria: Stinging-celled animals. Anemones, corals, sea fans, jellyfishes, sea pens... Polyps and/or medusae stages
Class Anthozoa: Class Anthozoa: Polyp stage only, stomach divided in numerous compartments.
Sub-Class Zoantharia (Hexacorallia): More than eight and multiples of six tentacles.
Order Corallimorpharia: Coral anemones. Solitary or colonial, flattened mushroom-like anemones.
Short, stubby tentacles radially arranged. Look like true corals, but lack skeletons. About ten families. Most common genera Actinodiscus, Ricordea, Corynactis, Rhodactis, Amplexidiscus. (the last two can eat unwary fishes... commonly clowns) Individual polyps 1 inch to 1 foot across.
I understand they are the same phylum however constantly refered to as a anemone.
I just knew were not a coral like zoa.
 
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nereef

Guest
it is confusing when terms that are taxanomic are used to describe another group's features. i believe that in this writeup by fenner, "mushroom like anemones" is used to describe the growth form of mushrooms, and not to say that mushrooms ARE anemones. (yikes...that is very confusing)
zoas are also not true corals, but rather have their own order (Zoanthidea).
 

mr.clownfish

Active Member
Originally Posted by xtreeme
http:///forum/post/2715792
not sure about the daisy. The mushroom is a anenome not a coral. I just got some red ones. I had the light on it opened up doing good I think. My first so hard to tell lol.
mushrooms r corals not anemones.
 
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