Post pictures of your large soft corals!

[Joe Pusdesris]

tangtang clown, any shots without actinic? The tank looks cool but all I see is blue.

 

[Mariner]

This sinularia started as a pinky sized frag over five years ago.
Here it is in '05, already off to a good start

Here it is yesterday.

Mariner

 

[tangtang clown]

I took some last night, but only posted the acs. Opps. I will get them posted today. Thanks Joe.

 

[tangtang clown]

I only have a few pics right now, but I will get more tonight.
Does anyone know what this is?

 

[spsfreak]

It is some kind of Lobophyllia (Lobed Brain Coral). It is an LPS coral.

 

[tangtang clown]

It's in my friend's tank and he is trying to get a value for a trade.

 

[spsfreak]

Pretty coommon. Maybe at a LFS it would get a $20-25 credit, again this is all dependent on your local trade prices.

 

[tangtang clown]

Random Softies

Random Softies

 

[CaptainCoral]

I have lots of overgrown sinularia.

Here is a pic of some of my softies.

 

[tangtang clown]

This thing is the size of two heads of lettuce.

 

[MarkusII]

Hello,

your last three pics are LPS no softies!!!!! first and second an Euphyllia, the middle one a Plerogyra

regards

Markus

 

[tangtang clown]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14686935#post14686935 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MarkusII
Hello,

your last three pics are LPS no softies!!!!! first and second an Euphyllia, the middle one a Plerogyra

regards

Markus

Thanks Markus. I had no idea what they were. I have them named as Bubble Coral, Frogspawn, and I don't know about the other.
Softies include leather, toadstools, and what else?
As you can tell I am an expert. :lol: :lol:

 

[KarlBob]

In general, the easiest way to tell that bubble corals and frogspawn/anchor/hammer corals aren't soft corals is by the fact that they all have a hard skeleton that the soft bits grow around.

Soft corals are members of the octocorallia - they have tentacles that grow in groups of eight. Stony corals (SPS and LPS) are hexacorallia - they have tentacles that grow in groups of six.

Just to confuse things, there are two members of the octocorallia that have stony skeletons - blue coral (heliopora) and organ pipe coral (tubipora). They're still normally considered soft corals.

More exceptions and qualifiers: Gorgonians are also octocorallians, so in a sense they're soft corals, too. Although many people include zoanthids and mushrooms (corallimorphs) as "soft corals", they're actually hexacorallians.

Soft corals include finger leather, christmas tree, devils hand, cabbage leather, toadstool, xenia, anthelia, "blue xenia" (actually cespitularia), Kenya tree, colt, carnation, spaghetti leather, cauliflower leather, green star polyps, clove polyps, etc.

 

[tangtang clown]

Wow Karl. Impressive. Give me a week or two to wrap my head around all that and I will post some more pics. Thanks.

 

[AJT]

Have never heard of the term lawn gnomes, first time I read I was loking for those little gnomes figures that are in my moms garden.


home 200 colony >15yrs old

 

[Joe Pusdesris]

Wow!

 

[AJT]

I thought this was a lawn gnome

 

[Joe Pusdesris]

Uh, it's april fool's day so they replaced the word coral with lawn gnome...

 

[frenchie]

nice coral

 

[frenchie]

or nice c o r a l