Help with Identification

[agranoff]

Can someone help identify this coral type for me?

Thanks.

 

[alb_56]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1YuXWE4Q3c

 

[smtank]

Bubble coral/Plerogyra sinuosa.

 

[agranoff]

Thanks. I thought it was a bubble coral but looks different than some of the photos I've seen online.

 

[smtank]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1YuXWE4Q3c

Cool video, specifically the part about the tentacles changing shape during feeding.

 

[aromano]

are you sure it isn't a bleached hammer?

 

[smtank]

are you sure it isn't a bleached hammer?

LOL you're correct:dance: Yes it's an Euphyllia, not sure how bleached it is, they come in a wide range of coloration. Note to self, put corrective lenses on nose lol.

 

[mbingha]

euphyllia ancora or euphyllia paraancora

 

[Vgyoung]

+1 on bleached hammer

 

[mbingha]

Give it the proper light, and feed it once a week and it'll come back pretty easily. Love the ability of the Euphyllia family to bounce back. Even if it looks like it's completely dead, leave it in the tank for about a month, sometimes they will sprout heads from an apparently dead skeleton.

 

[agranoff]

I bought this thing from my LFS and it was this color - they are usually pretty reliable so I am surprised its bleached but I have it in good lighting and am feeding it every 3 days like all my other corals, so we will see. I think it might be beached as well because the base of the hammers is greenish.

Thanks for the feedback all.

 

[mbingha]

Keep it on the bottom, it may have expelled all its zoanthgalgae (sp lol?) From too much light.