Please Identify This Soft Coral

[RandyStacyE]

Does anyone know what the name of this is?

I have had this type of coral for years and it has multiplied beyond my expectations. My tank is literally covered in these things! I started with a tiny frag and it has become a colony about the size of a football. It has been dropping frags all over the place and those have become colonies the size of softballs!

I made snippings and traded them for in-store credit at my local fish store, but that just isn’t cutting it. I’m putting them up for trade etc… in the appropriate forum, but I need to know what they are called first. My wife calls them ‘nubbins’, but that’s not …. uhhhh right.

Please help … I need to get rid of my NUBBINS!!!

 

[RandyStacyE]

The one in the center.

 

[tinyreef]

i'd guess a type of litophyton(?).

 

[RandyStacyE]

I checked out that name you mentioned and came up with this pic:

That looks a bit more 'stalky' and less branchy. Is there a 'common name' for that? At least that you know of?

The pic I showed is one of my smallest frags.

 

[panmanmatt]

Kenya tree is the common name. IIRC it is a capnella species.

 

[RandyStacyE]

THAT'S IT panmanmatt! I couldn't spell it correctly when I searched it. I kept spelling it campenella and variations of it.

Thank you very much!

I've got a bundle and a half of these things and I don't know what to do with them. I'll post a link immediately after I start a thread in the sell/trade forum.

 

[panmanmatt]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8908430#post8908430 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RandyStacyE

Thank you very much!

I've got a bundle and a half of these things and I don't know what to do with them.

You're welcome.

Join the club. I have at least a couple dozen frags from my colony right now. In the last month I must have goten rid of at least 2, possibly 3, dozen and I still have a bunch left.

 

[RandyStacyE]

Here's the thread:

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1010945

Thanks for the help guys ... I appreciate it.

 

[JBG]

That is most certainly a litophyton species . Do the branches fall off numerously ? Also Capnella has dence polyp clusters and thicker branchs .