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Amphiprion
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Have you touched it underwater without disturbing it otherwise? If the dactylozooids are retracted, you will feel nothing.
Monkey_Bone
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See my 1st post?
I have touched it with the polyps out as well underwater.
BS you wont get hit if the polyps are in.
I have personaly seen two divers lean back on on a cave wall that was under low tide conditions with fire coral growing all over it and exposed out of water polyps in.
They got the bejesus stung out of them. Back was all red and itchy/stinging.
It is NOT Blue ridge coral your mistaken.
Blue ridge coral ( Heliopora Coerulea ) grows MUCH MUCH thicker branches and it grows in a "lettuce" pattern as well as striaght up. Post as pic of your old blueridge you had. I want to see one growing in any other formation than thick branches and growing straight up. BLue ridge corals do not have thin hairs for polyps either
they have long thin tube like polyps like a searod only with smaller "flowers" on the ends of the tenticles.
http://a1272.g.akamai.net/7/1272/11...ria.com/images/products/bigimage/lg_82053.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/k.davis11/millepora.html
CLick the 2nd link I posted and remember the piece I have is only around 2-21/2 inches x 1 1/2-2" so It hasent started branching much yet. but it is a fire coral.
Youcan come over and touche it and see if youget stung if you like?
LOL!
for some reason it just dosent effect me?
Maybe I have tough skin or somthing?
A nonalgergenic reaction to its sting?
I dont know , but it is definately a fire coral.
I have touched it with the polyps out as well underwater.
BS you wont get hit if the polyps are in.
I have personaly seen two divers lean back on on a cave wall that was under low tide conditions with fire coral growing all over it and exposed out of water polyps in.
They got the bejesus stung out of them. Back was all red and itchy/stinging.
It is NOT Blue ridge coral your mistaken.
Blue ridge coral ( Heliopora Coerulea ) grows MUCH MUCH thicker branches and it grows in a "lettuce" pattern as well as striaght up. Post as pic of your old blueridge you had. I want to see one growing in any other formation than thick branches and growing straight up. BLue ridge corals do not have thin hairs for polyps either
they have long thin tube like polyps like a searod only with smaller "flowers" on the ends of the tenticles.http://a1272.g.akamai.net/7/1272/11...ria.com/images/products/bigimage/lg_82053.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/k.davis11/millepora.html
CLick the 2nd link I posted and remember the piece I have is only around 2-21/2 inches x 1 1/2-2" so It hasent started branching much yet. but it is a fire coral.
Youcan come over and touche it and see if youget stung if you like?
LOL!
for some reason it just dosent effect me?
Maybe I have tough skin or somthing?
A nonalgergenic reaction to its sting?
I dont know , but it is definately a fire coral.
Amphiprion
Premium Member
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7656357#post7656357 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Monkey_Bone
See my 1st post?
I have touched it with the polyps out as well underwater.
BS you wont get hit if the polyps are in.
I have personaly seen two divers lean back on on a cave wall that was under low tide conditions with fire coral growing all over it and exposed out of water polyps in.
They got the bejesus stung out of them. Back was all red and itchy/stinging.
It is NOT Blue ridge coral your mistaken.
Blue ridge coral ( Heliopora Coerulea ) grows MUCH MUCH thicker branches and it grows in a "lettuce" pattern as well as striaght up. Post as pic of your old blueridge you had. I want to see one growing in any other formation than thick branches and growing straight up. BLue ridge corals do not have thin hairs for polyps either
http://a1272.g.akamai.net/7/1272/11...ria.com/images/products/bigimage/lg_82053.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/k.davis11/millepora.html
CLick the 2nd link I posted and remember the piece I have is only around 2-21/2 inches x 1 1/2-2" so It hasent started branching much yet. but it is a fire coral.
Youcan come over and touche it and see if youget stung if you like?
LOL!
for some reason it just dosent effect me?
Maybe I have tough skin or somthing?
A nonalgergenic reaction to its sting?
I dont know , but it is definately a fire coral.
I never said it wasn't a fire coral. That is precisely what it is, because from your last photo, I can see the cyclosystem. I am not sensitive to them, either, except on the upper part of my arm (bicep area). The dactylozooids are what sting you--NOTHING else on these animals are capable of doing it. When they are retracted, they can do nothing. When most people get stung while they are retracted, they have damaged the surfaces of the coral, exposing the dactylopores and dactylozooids. This would be the case of your diver buddies. There may be one person full of BS, but I am afraid it is not me.
