Coral ID

BoB_27 · 10-24-2007, 04:59 PM

Can anyone ID this Coral???? I was thinking it some kind of Xenia coral….

**Amphibious** · 10-24-2007, 05:21 PM

Definitly not Xenia. Is the colony ball shaped with a stoney structure?

BoB_27 · 10-24-2007, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Amphibious

Definitly not Xenia. Is the colony ball shaped with a stoney structure?

It not stony at all, like a big ball of slim. Puffs up during the day and shrinks at night and turns smoke grey. When it feeds, it flashes grey and brown...

BoB_27 · 10-24-2007, 05:28 PM

I should tell you, I have had it for 5-6 months and its double in size. Also I bought it at one of my LFS he sold to me for 20 bucks and he called it a modern coral...

I have taken to a couple other more experience LFS and they have never seen anything like it before...

**Phurst** · 10-24-2007, 05:51 PM

Any way we can get a closeup?

***lReef lKeeper*** · 10-24-2007, 08:23 PM

yeah, we need a GOOD macro shot of this coral.

BoB_27 · 10-24-2007, 09:25 PM

I will try......

BoB_27 · 10-25-2007, 12:11 PM

Here are the close-ups of the coral… I really think it a very small Xenia of some sort now….

**Amphibious** · 10-25-2007, 12:52 PM

I'm beginning to believe you are right. Xenia.

**Phurst** · 10-25-2007, 02:20 PM

I agree. Not like any xenia I have ever seen, but the polyps sure do look like some kind of xenia.

Pinecone_Jeff · 10-25-2007, 03:40 PM

And with it's growth rate, I'd be inclined to think it was a xenia too. But man, what stubby stalks for a xenia. How unusual!

***lReef lKeeper*** · 10-25-2007, 05:18 PM

i agree with Xenia ... maybe even somewhat of a hybrid ??

**CarmieJo** · 10-25-2007, 11:55 PM

But that skeleton doesn't look like xenia...

cilyjr · 10-31-2007, 09:14 PM

i think it is an organ pipe (Tubipora musica) coral. they are some where between Green star polyps and galaxia, in that they act like GSP but form a skeleton check out what wikipedia says about it
Organ pipe coral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
just a guess though

**Amphibious** · 10-31-2007, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by CarmieJo

But that skeleton doesn't look like xenia...

I can't see a skelatal structure in the pictures. If it were a Tubipora it would have a skelatal structure that would look like this....

And, you would be able to see it even when the polyps are extended.

I still vote Xenia.

Dick

***lReef lKeeper*** · 11-01-2007, 12:08 AM

i agree with Dick. i dont see a skeletal structure in the pics. i am sticking to xenia.

**CarmieJo** · 11-01-2007, 02:11 AM

Hi cilyjr and

to TR.

Danamck · 11-01-2007, 03:33 PM

Yep - Xenia that has maybe overtaken a rock or coral skeleton. I have Xenia in several tanks, all from the same frag, and they all look quite a bit different. I think flow rate, light, water parameters, fish nippers, etc. all have a huge effect on how Xenia grows and looks.

Very cool coral, though.