Octopus Coral?

[Reno Reef]

My LFS has a "octopus coral" I couldnt find any info on them around here. Does anyone have some tips on keeping said coral?
I have 96W PC on a 33G cube.

Thanks

 

[paininthewrasse]

I have never heard of octopus coral

 

[Sk8r]

Frogspawn? I think it sometimes goes by that name? Lots of branches and dots on tentacles?

 

[nmprisons]

octopus are frogspawns. usually they are a morph with a bunch of tips on each branch.

 

[AIMFish]

Whenever I get octopus in it's frogspawn that doesn't have any green, usually brown or purplish and as mentioned bumpier

 

[blange3]

My LFS had some. They looked like torches with a hammer like tip. Another one of those in-between Euphyilia varieties.

 

[TypeSH]

I have an octopus coral. I've had it for 3-4 years and it is similar is requirements as a frogspawn. The octopus's skeleton looks different than a frogspawn. It is circular like a scolymia, but it has tentacles like a frogspawn. I have had many baby buds on my parent colongy, and they grow into circular disc-shapes also.

HTH,
Sam

 

[paininthewrasse]

hmm thats something new to me.. I've never seen anything marked octopus coral.

 

[mobert]

This is what I just got. My lfs called it "Octo"

 

[Reno Reef]

Thanks everyone.

Yeah Mobert thats about what it looked like except more translucent and a more orange/brown/purpleish color.

And after all this when I went to the LFS on monday morning it had been sold. Bummer.

But thanks for everyones help.

 

[johnnybravo234]

Looks healthy. Nice

 

[johnnybravo234]

nm sorry

 

[mbunaman]

There are a few different species of frogspawns. Eup. Yamensis and Eup. paradivsa usually are called octospawns for a generic name. Excuse me if I misspelled any of the scientific names. The are one of my favorite corals.

 

[nUgZ]

The one Mobert posted is actually Euphyllia divisa.