i need i.d. on these please.

[Chad Vossen]

thanks.

oh yea, my boss is calling them mushrooms. isnt that funny

 

[Azurel]

Those are just your standard Green button polyp

 

[Chad Vossen]

ok. about how much does a colony like this go for?

thanks.

 

[mfinn]

They are pretty common and I will usually give them away if I can. They spread like weeds.

 

[Chad Vossen]

ok ty. my boss keeps calling them green mushrooms. is there a scientific name for these? what family are they in?

he bought 2 rocks of these. i was disapointed since they are kinda ugly and he was actualy proud of them.. oh well.

 

[staninct]

I believe they belong to the Palythoa family, although I am not sure of the exact genus...

 

[aSixyReef]

your boss doesnt know coral. thats not even close to a mushroom. im glad youre helping him out with IDs! seriously, there need to be more LFS employees that give a pooh.

 

[Chad Vossen]

thank you, i was thinking Palythoa when i first saw them but i didnt know enough to challenge him on it. but i knew they were not mushrooms...

im looking for better proof that i can take to him and just smack talk him lol. he doesnt think i know much of anything about saltwater tanks. just recently he asked my advise on diatoms and my advise helped alot. lol his 40 years experience vs. my 5 months experience with saltwater. i think reefcentral is great

 

[staninct]

No problem. They are aka button polyps in many LFS in the northeast, not sure if they use a different name down there. Plus, mushrooms are in the actinodiscus family of corallimorphans anyway. Tell your boss to brush up on his latin genera of marine inverts!

 

[jjmcat]

protopalythoa

 

[jreimer]

Those are Palythoa species (and judging by the morphology what used to be classified as Protopalythoa)- take a very close look at the polyp stalk (maybe using zoom) - they should have sand or other bits of detritus incorporated into the structure.

Genus = Palythoa
Species name = no clear idea, although I have seen a lot like these in nature... classification to the species level needs work.

cheers,

James

 

[Kaykay55]

button polyps