Latest Dr's Foster Smith Catalog, what is the coral above the mandarin?

[trmiv]

We just got the latest Dr's Foster and Smith catalog with the mandarin on the cover, and my wife has gone batty for the coral above the fish. Any flower looking coral she absolutely loves. I honestly have no idea what it is. Anyone know what it is?

 

[lachrimae]

I think it's a flower pot coral, though I'm not certain.

If it is, it's supposed to be very difficult to keep...

 

[trmiv]

It's not a Goniopora or a Alveopora, there aren't enough tentacles on the polyps to be either. This coral only has 8 tentacles per polyp.

I wish my scanner worked, I'd post a picture. Let me see if I can get a shot of it with my camera.

 

[trmiv]

Here's a picture of the catalog:

 

[HaKs310]

Tubipora musica

 

[trmiv]

Yea I guess it does look like a pipe organ. I've never seen a color morph like that though with the thick polyps. At least around here I haven't.

 

[corals b 4 bills]

looks like a flower pot.

 

[trmiv]

Like I said above, not enough tentacles to be a flower pot.

Pipe organ looks about right. A very nice one that I've never seen, too.

 

[Drewpy]

call them and ask.............

 

[Rendos]

Pipe organ

 

[gfk]

does that catelog come free if you order from them? or can you just subscribe to it?

 

[travisurfer]

the catologue is free

 

[ronkent]

i believe you can go to their site and request a catalog

 

[So Cal shaggy]

it is a pipe organ flower pots have tube shaped tentacles not tapered shape.

 

[aubee91]

Definitely tubipora musica (Organ Pipe or Pipe Organ). There's a picture of this type of variant on page 122 of Borneman's Aquarium Corals.

 

[iCam]

Is there a photo description in the catalog?

My mail is in my car, otherwise I'd check.

 

[UnderwaterExotic]

Gonipora have 24 tentacles and Alvepora have 12! Like they said not enough for either! It looks like to me like a Clavularia or clove polyps!

 

[Amphiprion]

It is certainly some sort of stoloniferan (I am also leaning toward T. musica). Besides, it is mostly certainly an octocoral (8 tentacles, but not always 8), so that is one other way to differentiate it from Goniopora sp.

 

[UnderwaterExotic]

Let me know when you find out what it is!

 

[UnderwaterExotic]

I emailed Foster and Smith and they said it was a white pipe organ!