ID please

[Mystical Lady]

This coral was a hitchhiker on a brain.... I scraped it off and put it on a disk.... its not completely out in the pic but hopefully you and tell what it is. I have never seen this in anyones tank nor have I seen a picture of it, but then I really don't know what to even start searching for..... the little flower/polyp is as bright as a candy cane but the 'stems' seem to be transparent. the 'flower and stem' will bend/wave with the current.... they are very small, the whole thing you see there is less than dime-sized.

[Jager]

definitely not 100% but it looks like a pipe organ coral.

[Mystical Lady]

definitely not 100% but it looks like a pipe organ coral.

 

 

it doesn't have the feathery polyps that look like the Organ... the 'polyp' is one piece but is 'puffy' like the candy cane polyp.... but it doesn't have the tentacles that come out-like the candy cane...oh it doesn't have the hard skeleton like the candy cane

Edited April 29, 2007 by Mystical Lady

[Prunfarm]

Just a guess... Maybe a juvi alveopora (sp.)?

[90OcReef]

12 polyps in my book says it's a alveopora.... does it have a skeleton or a encrusting mat?

 

-Jess

[Mystical Lady]

12 polyps in my book says it's a alveopora.... does it have a skeleton or a encrusting mat?

-Jess

 

 

I believe this is getting *very* close:) ....after searching for pics of Alvepora, I find the Alvepora Tizardi very close to what this looks like although mine doesn't have the individual 'petals' yet but it may be a 'juvi' at this point....

 

mine have 'soft stems' that are coming out of a small rock but being a novice that i am I suppose the 'rock' could be part of the animal itself.

 

Thanks for helping me Identify this!!!!!