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[italia]

Tried to get the best picture I possibly could while keeping it clear. The coral does have a hard skeletol structure beneath all the tentacles that are shown here in the pic. other pics u will see also show a better view of the "mouth" and around the mouth s redish.

 

[Flavum]

shot in the dark. tubastraea sp.

 

[italia]

thanks for ur answer. I appreciate it. I searched it up and looked at over 100 pics of tubastrea and not one of them comes close to looking like this and the base structure of the tubastrea looks totally different than this one.

when Looking at tubastras, they all are orange. and when viewing the tentacles up close, the tubastrea doesn't seem to have the "spotted" markings all over the tentacles like the ones in the above picture.
I'm not ruling out your shot just voicing my comparison. Trust me, I've looked everywhere for a matching coral.
Thanks for your time to look.

 

[victor escobar]

you would be very lucky if they are the very expensive ryzotrochus and they look like them

 

[italia]

I just looked them up and they look close but alot of the Ryzotrochus I look up are different color and seem alot bigger. I read that alot of them start out white when babies and will gain color when they grow.

how much does ryzotrocus go for usually?

 

[victor escobar]

depends very much on the size, in Spain they are never available but in the USA I've seen they can reach the hundreds of dolars.

They are not fotosynthetic so you have to feed the every day and they will grow,....

 

[italia]

got cha. well I'll give it a try, feed them by hand and hope for the best and see if they have a color morph when they get bigger.
after looking more closely at the rock, there is the cluster on the front like shown in the pic. That front cluster has a total of 9 heads, some are very very tiny babies forming.
On the back of the rock, there is another mini cluster of 4
what is their growth rate and how to they split/multiply?

 

[italia]

got cha. well I'll give it a try, feed them by hand and hope for the best and see if they have a color morph when they get bigger.
after looking more closely at the rock, there is the cluster on the front like shown in the pic. That front cluster has a total of 9 heads, some are very very tiny babies forming.
On the back of the rock, there is another mini cluster of 4
what is their growth rate and how to they split/multiply?

 

[Henry760]

Looks like it could be cup coral..
Comes in allot on Florida LR.

 

[italia]

that sure does look pretty close to matching a cup coral.
what are some ways to get a definitive ID on what I have?

Here is the funny thing, I've had email after email, alot saying could be ryzos, some saying it's a rock anenome and the funnies one of yet, "oh that's just an aptasia" and that answer was from a very bigtime saltwater website! I won't say any names just thought that was funny.

 

[thecichlidpleco]

not a rhyzo, sorry to burst your $1500 in coral theory, they wouldnt cluster like that. I once thought I had a rhyzo and it just turned out to be a orange ball anemone(which is actually in the mushroom family), feed and then decide, but pagoda cup may be good guess.

 

[Mental1]

It looks like cup coral to me -- where's your rock from. Mine rock is from Florida and is loaded with them.

Here's mine -- not a very good picture. Not aiptasia, not mojano, not rhizo (darn it). Cup Coral -- mine is actually called Hidden Cup Coral.

 

[Mental1]

here you go Phyllangia Americana

http://www.aquariumboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/343

 

[Hormigaquatica]

Phyllangia. A very common hitchhiker on Florida aquacultured liverock. They are very hardy and eat like pigs given the chance. One of my favorite corals in my reef tank.

 

[victor escobar]

you are lucky in USA to have the variety of living rocks and corals. Florida aquacultured rocks are not available in Spain. in any case a very nice critter...