Looking for IDs on these

[Yinzer]

I have been wanting to do this for a while and since I was posting pics for my lighting question, I took a few of some of my corals that I do not know or remember their names.

These photos are aweful but if you can tell what they are, please let me know.

I know that there are green star polyps here but the rest are anyone's guess

The ones on top are about .75" diameter and blah colored when mature but when they start out, they are green around the edge and Bright orange in center. the ones on bottom are also rather large and orange/brown around edges and green going into the center

Here is a better photo of the one

On the right of this rock is a green bubbley thing..riccordia?

I know this is a long tentacled toadstool but the thing above it, I know what they are but blanked on it it is a ????? Tree

I got this and another from The Captive Reef and i forget what they are called

Here is another just like it only its green

I really need to take some better pics!!

thanks in advance

 

[cloakerpoked]

The one you blanked on is a Kenya Tree.

I'd say the last is a green singularia and the one before it I'd just call a finger leather. It's possibly that it is a devil's hand leather, but I doubt it.

Your green bubbly thing is probably just a green mushroom, or green fuzzy/hairy mushroom. It's possible its a riccordia if it has bubbles all over it, but look closely to be sure. Ric's are bubbly, hairy mushrooms have more like triangle looking protrusions.

Everything in your first couple of pictures are zoanthid or palythoa's. Palys generally have larger polyps...that'd be what the green centered brown things are. I'd just call it a green paly...doesn't have a name that I know of.

On the zoanthid rock, you actually have quite a few different types there from what it looks like. The all green ones would be radioactive dragoneye zoanthids. From what you're describing of the "immature" ones, and from the pic (although it's really hard to tell) they may be Dragoneye zoas.

The yellow guys on the right of your zoanthid picture are sun polyps...

 

[mak3mydae]

Excuse my ignorance, but the yellow polyps are not sun polyps. Sun polyps or sun corals are the corals in my avatar. theyre a non photsynthetic large polyp stony coral. theyre require at least weekly feedings. I've heard of those refered to as "yellow polyps?"

 

[cloakerpoked]

I've always referred to what you have as dendros or a sun coral and the yellow polyps as sun polyps. It's a description that is in common usage from the people I've talked to, but for you name snobs out there, calling it a yellow polyp would be safer I guess

 

[Stray32]

I am a name snob and I call them Yellow Polyps lol

 

[cloakerpoked]

I am a name snob and I call them Yellow Polyps lol

Are you a name snob that pays 50x as much just because Tyree attaches his name to it, cuz those guys are the worst! :lol:

 

[Stray32]

I hate those guys...

 

[cloakerpoked]

I hate those guys...

I know...I just like to get you started :blown:

 

[Stray32]

lol I guess you have seen my other posts then.

Case in point: There is a fairly well-established online retailer that discovered a sweet new favia. They were the first to have it and name it. Apparently they sent a frag of it to Tyree. Now they are excited he is going to brand it with his ever powerful "LE Tyree," even though its not even his coral. They are letting him put his name on it and take the credit for it. WEAK....

 

[cloakerpoked]

Gets them more money cuz now their "I named this favia" coral is a Tyree LE favia. You say weak, I say good business. Either way, back to the OP. Sorry for hyjacking, I just can't pass up an opportunity to stir the pot a bit with Jared.

 

[Stray32]

:beer:

 

[Yinzer]

I think I am going to name them whatever I want. I guess it doesn't really matter so here we go....
Brown Tentacled Peter Griffin Polyp
Green Krueger Hand Star Polyp
Yellow House of the Rising Sun Polyp
A Cheap Pleather Finger Coral
Ball of Snot Hairy Mushroom
Green Flacid Vegetable Coral
Yanni Tree
Multi-middle Fingered Toadstool
Long Stroking Pulsing Xenia
Roadkill Pizza Polyp
&
Wimpy French Tickler Polyps

 

[mak3mydae]

Well. Dont be such a meanie

Alot of these corals that where bunched together are actually qiute differnt. I mean, im not calling it Leroy's LE Apollo's Ray of Sunshine or anything. I'm simply calling it by its common name. Sun corals, and yellow polyps. The yellow polyps arnt even techniquely corals since they dont have a skeleton, and sun corals are non-photosynthetic. Sun corals are usually some kind of Tubastrea spp. which Dendro's like you've stated are Dendrophyllia spp.

Hows that for being a name snob?

I've always referred to what you have as dendros or a sun coral and the yellow polyps as sun polyps. It's a description that is in common usage from the people I've talked to, but for you name snobs out there, calling it a yellow polyp would be safer I guess