Identification

[SFMMcoasters]

I dont really know if this is a soft coral or not. I just picked it up from my LFS. I couldnt get any better of a picture than this (sorry). It's got a shiny green color under the light, flows around anemone-like, very loose. White on the tips... Anybody know what it is?

 

[dragon_slayer]

Amazingly enough that is a green Majano anemone, they are pests, you better kill them NOW.

best of luck eradicating them. I've taken down several tanks in the past because of them. they come in all sorts of colors, i believe a few pics of the red ones are still in my gallery.

kc

 

[Aliie]

Looks like a torch coral to me. Mine was really bad about stinging other corals. If that is what it is..... watch what it touches.

 

[SFMMcoasters]

Hmm, I really doubt its an anemone... Its a coral... lol. I mean- It was in the coral tank, there are 4 heads of it... on branches. Anybody else?

 

[SFMMcoasters]

here is a better picture, its on the left in 2 heads, and a to the right of it in 2 heads

 

[dragon_slayer]

http://melevsreef.com/id/majano.html


kc

 

[Aliie]

I may be wrong!! Dragon_Slayer seems to have the link.

Do yours have a tubular rock like base they protrude from or totally soft?

 

[SFMMcoasters]

Yea, I know your trying to push that its an anemone, but it isnt. I talked to the people about the fact that it was a coral, and what kinds of things it needed, and alot about it. It is coming out of tubular rock base things, and the rock its on has like 3 or 4 other tubes from where dead ones were.

 

[rssjsb]

Anemones don't have skeletons. It's an LPS, I agree probably a torch that's just not fully expanded yet.

 

[Hormigaquatica]

It appears to be some kind of Euphyllia, as others have mentioned, likely a variety of torch (that is, if the tissue is growing from a stoney branching base, as they appear to be.)

There are a few color morphs, variants of green being the most commonly imported.

http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/101-200/Species pages/148.htm

 

[SFMMcoasters]

Yea definately Torch Coral. Thanks for all the help.

 

[Lutefisk]

I'm with the manjano crowd.

http://melevsreef.com/id/majano.html

If it were a torch coral at least one of them would have a noticable stony stalk.

While they are pretty, think exponential replication ...


Paul

 

[sandshifter532]

THese have white tips and it looks like they have a base" Like plenty of people said" It doesnt look like a majano to me

 

[Hormigaquatica]

Majanos dont deposit calcium branches. Euphyllias do.

 

[saltycreefer]

So A Torch!

 

[Lutefisk]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9281979#post9281979 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Lutefisk
I'm with the manjano crowd.

http://melevsreef.com/id/majano.html

If it were a torch coral at least one of them would have a noticable stony stalk.

While they are pretty, think exponential replication ...


Paul

Wow! It looks like I missed some important posts when I wrote my reply.

With the last pic it is clear than it is NOT a manjano.

My bad


Paul

 

[wantsalotta]

Def a euphyllia. MAy be a frogspawn, some that are stressed lose the other nodes in the polyps. Looks more like a torch, and a very nice coloration for a torch. Medium flow and med-high light will make it very happy.