Coral ID help!

pupnsuds211 · 02-16-2008, 10:04 PM

a couple corals ive noticed growing on my LR, im not quite sure what they are. some of them are rather hidden, and if they are worth it, i would eventually like to move them to a more visable part of the tank! any input would be awesome!

This one is the dark green-yellow looking polyp section in the middle. It is about an inch big, and is neon green under lunar lights. during the day it pretty much blends in with the rock. the darker green section is the brightest and has the longest polyps, probably about 2-3 mm long.

At first i thought these were red frilly mushrooms, however after watching them spread, i notice some of them are random shapes, not even close to round, but more like rectangles. i also noticed that they have no visable stem, theyre completely attached to the rock. there are probably 10 all over the back of this rock, completely hidden from view. if they are infact mushrooms i would love to propagate them and attach them to another piece of rock

Whatever this is has a trapdoor ontop of it. Its in the direct center of the picture, and is a perfect circle. it secretes mucusy threads that float all over the tank, and then it reels the mucus in.... im assuming to eat whatever it catches on the threads. i thought it was a scallop because it has little tentacle things(i dont know what word would be appropriate :>)coming out of it, but the "trap door" has come off before and it just makes a new one within a few hours and keeps on living.

I meant to draw circles around the parts i was talking about before i posted these, but if anyone cant see what im talking about let me know and i can edit them!

unclejed · 02-20-2008, 05:13 PM

Wow, interesting! The mushroom is just that. I want to call it an anemone mushroom. I like them, can get quite large. The trap door thing is weird and have no idea. I was leaning toward sponge of some sort for the other, but, it's hard to see well in the pic. Hope you find out and post! By the way, how do you get your pics to post like that? As you saw, mine had to be posted in that little pic, it was the only way it took it from Photo bucket.

Nereaga · 02-20-2008, 05:56 PM

I have YET to post a picture. I always just post the address. I have posted 1800 times....

I too use photobucket, and can NOT for the life of me actually post a picture. I copy and post the picture, but it only posts the address....

Oh well...

gm333 · 02-20-2008, 06:02 PM

When using photobucket on this site you have to click on the mountain pic and copy the directlink url under your pic not the img link, then paste it into the window that comes up and the pic will show on the page instead of the link.

unclejed · 02-20-2008, 06:55 PM

Thanks gm I'll give it a try!

pupnsuds211 · 02-21-2008, 05:13 PM

click the mountain photo thing a photo upload page (itll show you a type box with "http" in it... make sure you delete the http), then go to photo bucket and copy the "Direct Link" url, paste it into the photo upload, click okay, and WALA!

Tommy Gun · 02-21-2008, 07:35 PM

You don't have to use the

button if you copy and paste the [IMG] Code directly to the window. Perhaps I am special, but that code is the bottom one on my photobucket account. I will see if we can expand the how to post photos article to explain that a bit better.

Anyways, I agree that the first picture looks like a sponge. The second are obviously mushrooms. And the third sounds like it could be a Vermitid Snail...which is a tube dwelling creature despite what it's name implies. I know they have a trapdoor and will 'spit' out strings or a sort of spiderweb looking material to catch food. I could be wrong on that but by description alone, it sounds like the closest match.

Tommy Gun · 02-21-2008, 09:49 PM

As promised....new article:

http://www.fishtankforums.com/fishtank/photobucket

pupnsuds211 · 02-22-2008, 11:37 PM

the only possibly questiojn i have about the red ones being mushrooms is that they dont have a stem. they almost look like theyre growing from a skeleton, much like candycane coral or frogspawn. any thoughts?

thank you for the new article!

Tommy Gun · 02-23-2008, 12:02 AM

Maybe they just happen to have attached themselves to that specific spot becuase I would almost bet every last fish I have that those are mushrooms. I have the exact same type in my tank in fact.