help identifying this reef...

[kohlton]

New member.... Hoping I am posting this in the proper place. Can anyone help me identify this please, and if it is aggressive, is it too close to the yellow polyps...



Thanks in advance!

 

[1DeR9_3Hy]

Its odd looking for sure. It looks like a red blasto, but it lacks a skeleton. Then it looks like red shrooms, but i have never seen shrooms curl up like that before either.

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[redfishsc]

Hopefully this will help with the pic, since I can't help much with the ID. At first it looks like Blastomussa wellsi, or perhaps a form of corralimorph--- a mushroom colony, and a pretty one at that, but I can't tell.

Do they have a calcium skeleton at all? I've seen some

Do a google on red blastomussa wellsi

 

[reefboy1994]

id say it is stressed out shrooms. definetly move it from the yellow polyps cuz those pack a pretty nasty sting.

 

[kohlton]

Here is another image different view, I have moved it away from the polyps. Thank you! you ppl are fast with replies

The blastomussa wellsi is as close as I have found so far also.

 

[kohlton]

redfishsc: sorry I missed your question.... no calcium skeleton

 

[redfishsc]

Well, they actually seem to have a skeleton in the pic, if you look at the left center, the rock they are on has a pattern similar to a lot of LPS like blasto.

Also, look at the bottom right of the pic. There is one that seems to be centered on one of the skeleton looking formations.


I'd still say they are blastos, but just in rough shape.

 

[kohlton]

Looks like you are right redfish... This animal was basically a rescue. I took it from a friends tank that had basically been abandoned for 2 weeks. Hopefully it will recover. I moved it out of the direct light, any other suggestions?

 

[redfishsc]

Unfortunately I've never kept blastos, but you might try to keep them out of high water flow, and do just as you have by moving them out of direct light for a while.

You might try to feed them lightly with cyclop-eeze or something at night, but I'd give it a few days to settle in before doing that.


If they perk up, they will be a very, very beautiful addition to your tank.