new coral pics....

[chetrod]

I bought a small rock with a nice piece of montipora that I wanted and had two other corals on it for 30 bucks need help with ID on the other two. Also was cleaning the tank today and found some algea not sure what it is and if I need to get rid of it.

Montipora

 

[JJ21]

not sure what the second one is, but the third looks like some kind of clove polyp.

I think the last is just some kind of bubble algae.

 

[supervdl]

I agree with 3 and 4.

 

[afboundguy]

Def bubble algae...

A great way to get rid of it instead of emeral crabs (who by eating it, if they eat it just release the spores back into the water) is to get some hard airline tubing and cut one end at an angle to make it sharp and then use flex airline tubing and syphon it out... That way you get most of the spores out of the tank...

Somthing like this...

 

[atwinparadox2]

the second one kinda looks like retracted star polyps. Are they purple tubes or do they flow? If they flow you can rule out Start Polyps. If they are purple looking tubes then they most likely are star polyps.

 

[chetrod]

Re: new coral pics....

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14718455#post14718455 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chetrod

The top picture is some kind of tree coral after some reasearch not quite sure. Still trying to find it for sure.

The bottom picture is a Green star polyp they extend out and look like little palm trees. Thanks for the help with ID on this one.

 

[chetrod]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14721546#post14721546 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by afboundguy
Def bubble algae...

A great way to get rid of it instead of emeral crabs (who by eating it, if they eat it just release the spores back into the water) is to get some hard airline tubing and cut one end at an angle to make it sharp and then use flex airline tubing and syphon it out... That way you get most of the spores out of the tank...

The rocks are stacked and that rock is on top can I remove it scrape the algae off then rinse and replace the rock?

 

[Anteverius]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14721899#post14721899 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chetrod
The rocks are stacked and that rock is on top can I remove it scrape the algae off then rinse and replace the rock?

yeah, my frag tank was getting overtaken by this green menace and that is what I did. I pulled out each piece that i could see had the algae and scraped it off (being careful not to pop the bubbles). With that and the emerald crab I put in there, I havent seen any since.

 

[chimmike]

the purple one almost looks like a plating milli or something.

that's a weird cluster of bubble algae.

 

[chetrod]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14721933#post14721933 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chimmike
the purple one almost looks like a plating milli or something.

that's a weird cluster of bubble algae.

Here is an updated pic. Green star Polyp it seems

 

[DSMpunk]

The coral in the 2nd pic looks like it may be a lemnalia.

FWIW, I have had those tubey looking valonia before and Ive never had a problem with them. They don't seem to spread like the sphere shaped Valonia (at least in my tank).

 

[chetrod]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14722410#post14722410 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DSMpunk
The coral in the 2nd pic looks like it may be a lemnalia.

FWIW, I have had those tubey looking valonia before and Ive never had a problem with them. They don't seem to spread like the sphere shaped Valonia (at least in my tank).

Looked it up a lemnalia will be it.

Now the algea should I leave it alone? There is a crab in there he might get to it some time.... He moves around at night most of the time.