Why is my Xenia Electric Green? Do I have a morph or something?

[meowzer]

Originally Posted by NigerBang
http:///forum/post/3115748
Then they were dorment on the rock.. That is not xenia.. Xenia doesnt grow a mat like structure... Its a blob like base.. That has a defined growth mat... No way around it.. The "red" xenia prolly died back and something awoken the clove polyps...The top pic and bottom pic are 2 different things..

this time I was first

 

[lil.guppy]

Ok you can see the small peice that was ripped from the colony and stayed on the rock. (circled)

 

[nigerbang]

ok.. the Xenia is starting to regrow next to it.. That is not the same thing.. Looks nothing like each other..
Dont know what else to say..

 

[t316]

Originally Posted by lil.guppy
http:///forum/post/3115751
Ok you can see the small peice that was ripped from the colony and stayed on the rock. (circled)
That hermit crab is headed over there to verify, let's wait on his analysis since he has the best view...

 

[meowzer]

Originally Posted by NigerBang
http:///forum/post/3115753
ok.. the Xenia is starting to regrow next to it.. That is not the same thing.. Looks nothing like each other..
Dont know what else to say..
I DO...LOL...Guppy you got 2 for 1....be happy

 

[spanko]

I still say Clavularia ( Briareum ) viridis Green Star Polyps.
"An encrusting purple base with numerous polyps extending from it. Each polyp is tall, narrow and has tenticles radiating from it. As the base, or mat, spreads new polyps extend from it."

 

[lil.guppy]

OMG so your telling me that when the xenia died the green stars were able to grow over? And a few seeds were left of the xenia to grow on the rock? Wooooooooow im amazed ya'll
So I have never had GSPs before. I turned all the moving equipment off to see if they pulse and some of the hands will close slowly. Do they do that like xenai?

 

[nigerbang]

Both Xenia and GSP are invasive and damn near impossible to kill.. it can stay on the rock and when the conditions are right pop back up.. One might have been choking the other out and now it found a happy medium..

 

[t316]

Originally Posted by lil.guppy
http:///forum/post/3115763
OMG so your telling me that when the xenia died the green stars were able to grow over? And a few seeds were left of the xenia to grow on the rock? Wooooooooow im amazed ya'll
So I have never had GSPs before. I turned all the moving equipment off to see if they pulse and some of the hands will close slowly. Do they do that like xenai?
No...Xenia will pulsate (open close) constantly. This may close a little when something passes by, or lights go down, but not pulsate like xenia. And the more it grows it can get long arms and flow like a field of green grass....very pretty.

 

[lil.guppy]

I apologize for assuming ya'll were wrong I could never imagine that another coral would just take over like that. What is weird is that when the xenia died the little pock marks where the arms come out were still there and that is where the green arms started to grow. Its so weird. IM IN DENIAL IM IN DENIAL
I bet it would look cool to place next to my pink and purple star polyps! So why doesnt this one have the white dots in the middle of the hands

 

[spanko]

You are thinking of Pachyclavularia sp..

 

[t316]

Originally Posted by spanko
http:///forum/post/3115781
You are thinking of Pachyclavularia sp..
Henry, what's up with all the scientific names

I bet there's not 10 people on the entire site that knows what those names are

 

[lil.guppy]

What is really freaky is that when I pulled the structure away from the rock the arms that were left were green and then one day I looked and they were the pink pulsing arms. I wonder if its possible that the tissues were iner twined or something and one or the other takes over

 

[meowzer]

Originally Posted by lil.guppy
http:///forum/post/3115790
What is really freaky is that when I pulled the structure away from the rock the arms that were left were green and then one day I looked and they were the pink pulsing arms. I wonder if its possible that the tissues were iner twined or something and one or the other takes over

Wouldn't it be neat if they somehow became a mixed breed....

 

[spanko]

Originally Posted by t316
Henry, what's up with all the scientific names I bet there's not 10 people on the entire site that knows what those names are
Yeah Maybe not but look at all the names below and people are for the most part talking about the same thing. Common names can be confusing to people. I just like to get the scientific names out there so we know we are talking about the same thing.
Originally Posted by NigerBang
http:///forum/post/3115724
Top picture isnt Xenia.. Those pics are waaay oversaturated.. cant really tell whats going on... Turn off Vivid Color or High color...
Looks like GSP or Glove
Bottom pic is xenia..

Originally Posted by meowzer
http:///forum/post/3115726
Are you sure the top pic is the same thing???? Looks like clove polyps, or something similar to that...I can't think of the other name right now

FOR SOME ODD REASON all I can think of is food
THANKS HENRY

Originally Posted by NigerBang
http:///forum/post/3115731
Can you snap another pic with less blue?
It looks like it has a defined base in the top pic.. as a mat like clove and GSP.. It is def. different looking than the second and third pic..

Originally Posted by T316
http:///forum/post/3115738
green clove polyps, not xenia

Originally Posted by NigerBang
http:///forum/post/3115748
Then they were dorment on the rock.. That is not xenia.. Xenia doesnt grow a mat like structure... Its a blob like base.. That has a defined growth mat... No way around it.. The "red" xenia prolly died back and something awoken the clove polyps...The top pic and bottom pic are 2 different things..

 

[meowzer]

Originally Posted by spanko
http:///forum/post/3115800
Yeah Maybe not but look at all the names below and people are for the most part talking about the same thing. Common names can be confusing to people. I just like to get the scientific names out there so we know we are talking about the same thing.
It's your foods fault

 

[lil.guppy]

Originally Posted by meowzer
http:///forum/post/3115795
Wouldn't it be neat if they somehow became a mixed breed....

Thats what im saying cause it changes its weird!
It would be interesting to know if anyone else had this happen before. Its crazy how the GSP could be dormate for so long and then pop up or change to xenia.
For sale: Xenia GSP cross $2,000

 

[t316]

Originally Posted by spanko
http:///forum/post/3115800
Yeah Maybe not but look at all the names below and people are for the most part talking about the same thing. Common names can be confusing to people. I just like to get the scientific names out there so we know we are talking about the same thing.
I'm just picking at you...

 

[lil.guppy]

I like the sci names because I just go to "file" "new window" and type the name in and up pops a bunch of pictures you can click on. very helpful

 

[lil.guppy]

Ok so I moved the xenia....oops I mean GSP next to the pink star polyps so they can grow together. I am going to get some glue and glue the green ones up a little further.