Please ID these soft corals for me

[Todd_Sails]

1-I'm pretty sure the first is a Kenda Tree

2-The second is some type of polyp with green tips. This was bought as a small piece (frag?), looking for it and the others to keep spreading.

3-The third photo is actually taking a ride on my Royal urchin.
He's off now and back on a rock, he hasn't re-picked him up yet.

4-The forth photo is of a mushroom type softy, I have a few others from this one that don't have the green stripes on them.

5-The last photo, is similar to the 2nd, but it's all brown colored.
This one is dong so well the large piece I have is already spreading to the rock under it, and expanding.

And finally, I don't spot feed any of these. Is this right/OK? They just get light, and my water column, which is pretty average. As of now, I only have a few fish due to an Ich massiacre recently- so farily small bioload.

The polyps retract when touched, or at night, etc.
The shrooms retract quite a bit at night also.

#'s 1-5,

Thanks,
Todd

 

[Jeremy Blaze]

1. Could be Kenya Tree

2. Green polyp toadstool leather

3. Protopalythoa

4. discoma mushrooms

5. Looks like star polyps to me

No feeding needed, just good water quality, light and flow.

 

[Todd_Sails]

Thanks Mr. Blaze

 

[InsaneClownFish]

5th might be clove polyps, but it looks like a short stalk, thick xenia. I'd have to see another pic.

 

[ajn81]

1. Could be Kenya Tree

2. Green polyp toadstool leather

3. Protopalythoa

4. discoma mushrooms

5. Looks like star polyps to me

No feeding needed, just good water quality, light and flow.

Hard to tell from the picture, but #2 looks more like a small frag of Green Star Polyps to me.

 

[SaltwaterAdict]

1. colt or kenya tree
2. type of toadstool
3. green/brown palys
4. striped mushrooms
5. purple encrusting gorgonian

hth

 

[Sebastian J.]

1. Capnella imbricata (Kenyan Tree Coral) is a good guess, but from the blurred pic it could also be some kind of Sinularia leather coral.
2. A Briareum species, likely B. hamrum or B. asbestinum - aka Green Star Polyp.
3. Protopalythoa sp.
4. Discosoma sp.
5. Erythropodium caribaeorum (encrusting Gorgonian)

 

[apuhl20]

1. kenya tree
2. green star polyp
3. palythoa
4. mushroom
5. Angel Hair. suprised no one else got this one. Definately not a gorgonian

 

[Todd_Sails]

Thanks so far......

 

[Todd_Sails]

The fifth picture, is of my largest Softy.

It extends to what the pic shows, and retracts completely at least once a day, usually retracts at night. It is like little star polyp hairs, flowing in the current when extended.

The rock it's on is very large, and it's taking over the rock under it slowly.(encrusting?)

That softy is about 12cm x 8 cm's.

 

[apuhl20]

That is exactly what angel hair does.

 

[SaltwaterAdict]

I'm almost 100% sure the fifth picture is of a purple encrusting gorgonian. You can tell by how it is encrusting on the rock.

 

[Sebastian J.]

That is exactly what angel hair does.

I'd wager to guess that Angel Hair is a common name for Erythropodium caribaeorum (which, like Green Star Polyps, is an encrusting gorgonian) - I found a single Google hit connecting the two, so I guess it's sort of an uncommon common name. :crazy1:
Nonetheless, a google image search yields pretty much the same coral Todd posted.

 

[SaltwaterAdict]

I'd wager to guess that Angel Hair is a common name for Erythropodium caribaeorum (which, like Green Star Polyps, is an encrusting gorgonian) - I found a single Google hit connecting the two, so I guess it's sort of an uncommon common name. :crazy1:
Nonetheless, a google image search yields pretty much the same coral Todd posted.

Yeah, never heard of angel hair either. Encrusting gorgonian is not green star polyps. They're two completely different corals.

 

[Todd_Sails]

I'd wager to guess that Angel Hair is a common name for Erythropodium caribaeorum (which, like Green Star Polyps, is an encrusting gorgonian) - I found a single Google hit connecting the two, so I guess it's sort of an uncommon common name. :crazy1:
Nonetheless, a google image search yields pretty much the same coral Todd posted.

Thanks for all the input Sebastian.

You're really into the Genus and species!
Or is it Phylum, Genus, and species?

Been too long since my degrees.

Again, Thanks