hopefully an easy ID

[PoukieBear]

I'm almost embarrassed to be posting this.... I picked up a rock of Daisey's on the weekend, and I got an added bonus. A soft coral of some sort. It's still quite small, not even an inch tall, which is why I'm having a hard time id'ing it.

What do you think? What kind of leather is this? Finger leather maybe?

 

[Ebmorri]

Kenya Tree. Do I win anything?

 

[PoukieBear]

Kenya tree? Really? I alredy have one of those and it doesn't look anything like that. Thanks !

So, if that's a Kenya tree, then what's this? I thought this was a kenya tree? Or does it simply look different because it's mature?

 

[skippy2]

Kenya trees can be a plague much like green star polyps. I started with 1 and now have at least 20 or so that I can't get at. My LFS won't even take them anymore.

 

[Ebmorri]

Hard to say but I think the first is a Kenya tree, the second may be a colt coral
http://www.petsolutions.com/Colt-Soft-coral+I179600L+C76.aspx

or both may be kenya

 

[PoukieBear]

You know what? I think you're right again. For some reason I was all confused with the names of those corals. I now remember the second one being called a Colt coral when I bought it.

Thanks for the help guys.

 

[Ebmorri]

You bet cha

 

[crabbejoe]

The first one is a kenya tree, but I think the second one is probably more something like this:
http://www.petsolutions.com/Yellow-Leather-Soft-Coral+I154300L+C16165.aspx

 

[crabbejoe]

double post

 

[PoukieBear]

You're right too. The one in the front is a leather, I was wondering about the one in the back of that picture.

 

[crabbejoe]

Woops! :spin1:

I think that one could easily be a kenya tree too though. Kenyas and colts are a lot alike and you see their names used interchangably a lot. I think what it comes down to is colts have long stalks with stuff growing out the top, and kenyas are bushy all over, (like trees ). Or at least, that was always my understanding.

 

[lancer99]

It's actually pretty easy to tell the difference between a Colt coral and Kenya tree, once you've seen them both, and I don't think anyone would use their names interchangeably.

-R

 

[crabbejoe]

Fish shops use the names interchangeably, is what I was getting at.
So Lancer, what's the final word then? Colt or Kenya tree.

 

[lancer99]

That's true about fish shops!

It's a little hard to tell what the larger one is without a better picture, but they both look like Kenya tree to me...I'm 91.2% sure the larger one is not a colt

-R

 

[cloakerpoked]

I agree. It doesn't look like a Colt coral nearly as much as a Kenya tree. The first is def. a Kenya Tree

 

[DetectiveTofu]

The first one is definitely a stalk of Kenya tree, and in the background of the second picture it looks like a colt coral.

 

[Nanook]

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