I hit the mother lode...help ID. (pic intense)

mrichardson

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Hola, folks...last week a local guy was having a "going out of buissness sale". I need help ID'ing some of this stuff. I'm going to number each of the shots I have so that you can reply with number and name.

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Here is a pic of two of my buddies, your typical yellow tang, and a dragon goby.
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Here is a nice shot of several of the frags I got from the local guy.
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Here's what I need help with....

Here's what I need help with....

Ok, here is where I need help with ID.

1.)
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2.) I think there are two different things here...
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3.)
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4a.)I know the big thing is a devils hand, but there are some small polyps under it.
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4b.)Tighter pic.
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more....

more....

5.)
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6.)
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7.)
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8.)A rock that had a baby anenome on it.
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9.)These have looked like this since I got them...are they supposed to open?
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finally....

finally....

10.)Nice frogspawn.
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11.)
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12.)
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That's it I think. Thanks all for your help.

Michael Richardson
 
Ditto Bubble coral, pearl variety---has sweepers up to 6" long at night, so give him plenty of room downwind: lower light, prefers bottom. The stony one, #9, that has heads on stems, circle-like, is candy cane coral, a stony also, higher light, very short feeder tentacles. S/b upwind of all softies, particularly the one that looks like brush, which I think is sinularia, but am not sure. You have a number of button polyps. And the smoothish one with threads coming out of it is toadstool, a softie.

The mushrooms are discosoma species, a rapidly-growing green mushroom.

You should be running carbon, changing every week or so, to keep these guys at peace with each other, put all stony coral upwind of all soft coral, and give that bubble 6" clearance to downwind or it can sting its neighbors. Your alk should be 8.3-9.3, your cal should be 420, your mg 1200-1300, salinity 1.025, temp about 80.

A general feeding of cyclopeeze will make almost everything happy.

Oh, and be careful what you let that toadstool attach to! Don't let it get a grip on a major structural rock, since they can exceed a foot in diameter and take over. It may grow rapidly.

None of these demands mh light. Moderate in the case of the candycane. [Caulestra].

Test at least every 2 days for at least a couple of months: that many new corals coming in all at once---if any of them are in a growth spurt, you can see your buffer and cal demand skyrocket all of a sudden.

Good score!
 
1- Protopalythoa
2- Yellow/Golden Polyps (Zoanthid/Palythoa relative)
3- Anthelia
4- more Protopalythoa
5- Some sort of anemone. Anemonia sp. maybe
6- Zoanthids
7- Sarcophyton sp. aka Toadstool Leather
8- Little anemone. Cant tell what sort.
9- Caulastrea aka Candy Cane aka Trumpet Coral
10- Physogryra aka Pearl Bubble Coral
11- Zoanthids
12- Discosoma aka Mushrooms
 
I think that baby nem might be a bubble tip but too early to really be sure, you havnt seen the tentacles yet?
 
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