micromussa ?

[calero]

hello guys, i purchased this piece about a week ago but i cant identified it, polyps are like 3-4 millimeters in diameter, it does not have long tentacles at night but short ones and when eating it inflates a lot, there is actually two color morphs in the same rock, there are two pics out of the water and one inside, you can see the skeleton in the darker colony, it does not look 100 % like a micromussa but i dont know what it is , what do you think ?

thanks in advance, enrique

 

[Bcollins111900]

whatever it is it is AWESOME. It does show some signs of micromussa yet some of acan echinata. One of the big wigs on here will be able to ID it with havng the skeletal structure exposed. Nice pick up either way.

 

[supernareg]

i dont think thats a micromussa, looks more like favia?

 

[GMAX]

There are three different species of the Genus Micromussa. What you have is likely Diminuta. What folk are currently paying insane prices for is Micromussa Amakusensis. Your diminuta can look quite a bit like a favia underwater.

 

[oddballs]

i think it could also be favites of some kind either way its smoking!!nice coral.

 

[downset]

I am thinking favia a nice one at that!

 

[CaptainPicard]

Micromussa Minuta?

 

[GMAX]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8129767#post8129767 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by CaptainPicard
Micromussa Minuta?

Possibly it looks quite a bit like the Diminuta species. Its rarer than Diminuta, hence my thought that its more likely Diminuta than Minuta. Other opinion can and, as can be seen above, will differ.

 

[calero]

thank you guys, for me it does not look like any favia or favites i have seen before, so probably micro minuta or diminuta.

thanks

 

[GMAX]

Hey Calero

Go to Extreme Corals.com and look on page 4 of their New Arrivals. They have a green micromussa there, no species listed. Doesn't it look a lot like yours? Note the price they are asking and just grin....

 

[ranran]

post a pic of it with its feeding tents out i have found my fav and micros have totaly different feeding tents.

 

[ricordia nut]

very nice looking

 

[ReefDoctorMicromussas]

Wow that is nice.... May I ask what you gave for it? you should frag it out for all of us LOL NOT... very nice whole colony and that adds to its wonder.

 

[calero]

hey doc, i paid $ 35.00 for it and it was sitting in the LFS for a month ( until i discovered it ), they dont know for certain what it is, they bought it from the wholesaler as some kind of favia or favites, but what's your id ?, its very important to me to know your opinion. thanks

 

[ReefDoctorMicromussas]

You took a very good picture of the skeletal structures there and that leads me to lean that it is a Micromussa... although not Amakusensis we are left with Diminuta and the Minuta.. I have to agree with GMAX and say Diminuta... The Minuta I have seen (Or told I was seeing) are much less fluffy.

Micromussa Diminuta is my uneducated guess

$35.00 an absolute steal! well done