Coral ID

[Guest JasonD]

In the batch of live rock I bought from Steveoutlaw, was this piece of apparently dead stony white branched coral. I put it in my tank, up top because it looked nice. After a couple of weeks, some polyps started to appear on it near the base. They are steadily growing and expanding under my MH lighting. Here's a pic under my actinic lighting:

 

 

Now, Steve had his LR stored in a trash can with a heater and a PH for circulation, so this is one tough coral that is coming back to life. Does anyone out there know what coral this is?

[shawns]

if ya ask me, i think those are gsp's and it appears that they have encrusted onto the skeleton.

[lanman]

Agree - the flower-shaped polyps at the bottom of the (frogspawn?) skeleton appear to be Green Star Polyps.

 

bob

[Guest JasonD]

Cool...thanks guys. Do you think they successfully hitchhiked inside the skeleton?

[lanman]

Cool...thanks guys. Do you think they successfully hitchhiked inside the skeleton?

Quite likely they hitchhike on the outside of it. They encrust. I have seen some of mine close up for a week at a time with no ill effects, so it's not surprising they would survive. Keep an eye on them - they WILL start encrusting anything they touch. Some grow a lot faster than others. Almost all of them look great under actinics. I have 4 varieties - white center button, pink center button, no button at all, and traffic-cop yellow/green.

 

bob