Help ID my first coral

[symon_say]

I just bought this rock from LFS, they don't know what those corals are, from what i read they seen like ricordea, but i have a one in the last picture that looks like polyps, but i'm not sure, could you help me ID it.

 

[keywestcoralboy]

I don't know what the last one is but most of them are Ricordia. Very nice Ricordia by the way!

 

[symon_say]

Thanks, the ricordea have change it's blue color to brown, why is this??

And anybody else now the name of the 2nd coral??

 

[DallasNYC]

The Mushrooms are Ricordea Florida.
The Florida species has a smooth mouth. The Ricordea Yuma species has bumps on the mouth.

Browning out or fading color is usually a sign of insufficient lighting. But not always. You need to make sure all your other parameter are in check. Salinity/PH/Alk/etc. What sort of lighting do you have? Where in the tank related to the lights are the mushrooms located?

For the other coral, is it all soft or does it have a skeleton? It looks like a chalice coral (Echinophyllia Aspera) which is a Long Polyp Skeleton Coral. If it's got a skeleton, you could post a pic in the 'LPS Keepers' forum. They should be able to identify it there.

 

[symon_say]

They are in my quarantine tank right now with just a T8 fluorescent light and some cheap blue leds.

I haven't touch the coral, but it seen all soft, it looks like a mini zoas. But watching some LPS pics it looks like a brain coral, but i don't know how small they start.

 

[DallasNYC]

They should color back up once you get them in your display tank.

The other one looks like an LPS to me. As far as size goes, if it propagates from spores than it starts off almost microscopic.