ID this coral? Please someone

[brandoncoelho30]

Can someone please ID this coral

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[C.Eymann]

Pollicopora damicornis I believe.

 

[billdogg]

That would be my guess as well

 

[Sk8r]

high light and calcium supplementation.

 

[billdogg]

And what Sk8r said.

I got some in accidentally - as a frag of a frag on a frag of all things. :eek1:

It is in my frag tank (go figure) in ~10" of water and directly below a A360we set to about 60%. It is growing nicely there.

When it gets big enough, I intend to make frags from the frag of a frag that came in on a frag so that I can have - you guessed it - more frags.

 

[C.Eymann]

I had one spawn or polyp bailout on me. I have small colonies starting all over the place. Especially on my back glass

 

[desjardini]

Does "Polyp Bailout" actually exist with coral? I can see it with a Euphyllia or perhaps a Trachyphyllia, but a Pocillipora? Does the whole branch become bare/white when this happens? Lot's of polyps there...

 

[brandoncoelho30]

What is polyp bailout? And is there a sign before it happens?

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[C.Eymann]

Does "Polyp Bailout" actually exist with coral? I can see it with a Euphyllia or perhaps a Trachyphyllia, but a Pocillipora? Does the whole branch become bare/white when this happens? Lot's of polyps there...

No just single polyps detach and then float off and settle in somewhere else

 

[desjardini]

So if just one of those teeny tiny polyps comes off this would be considered "Polyp Bailout?" I would expect it to be a lot more substantial than that.

 

[uvijaya]

Pollicopora for sure

 

[Bpb]

Yep. Pocillopora. I've heard horror stories of it going sexual or having polyp bailout and spreading itself everywhere in the tank. I've had a colony going for about 5 years now though and it has never once done this. Just grows. Gets fragged. Grows, Gets fragged. on and on. Very fast grower. Probably the easiest of all SPS corals. It's what is often used in alot of scientific type testing with lighting, growth, and food. By independent testers/hobbyists, and by reef product makers. It's so cheap, easy to come by, and resilient to everything yet still qualifies as an "SPS" so people can say they've tested this or that on SPS.

 

[C.Eymann]

Yep. Pocillopora. I've heard horror stories of it going sexual or having polyp bailout and spreading itself everywhere in the tank. I've had a colony going for about 5 years now though and it has never once done this. Just grows. Gets fragged. Grows, Gets fragged. on and on. Very fast grower. Probably the easiest of all SPS corals. It's what is often used in alot of scientific type testing with lighting, growth, and food. By independent testers/hobbyists, and by reef product makers. It's so cheap, easy to come by, and resilient to everything yet still qualifies as an "SPS" so people can say they've tested this or that on SPS.

+1 species is like the Kenya tree of the SPS world.