Raffle Frag ID please????

dowtish

dowtish

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This is what Heather won. I'm just not edubucated enough on the SPS

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poolkeeper1 said:
It is Blue ridge Coral, And If kept In high light will turn Emarald Green and get real Fuzzy Polyps.
Bill
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So this is NOT SPS?, according to live aquaria, this is an octocoral/soft coral. But every pic that I've looked at Bill points toward pavona.
 
It looks like pavona to me but I guess it could be a heliopora. Can you take a picture with the polyps not extended? Also, do you know where it came from?
 
rcmike said:
It looks like pavona to me but I guess it could be a heliopora. Can you take a picture with the polyps not extended? Also, do you know where it came from?
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I was at my 1st mtrc mtg. yesterday,and it was given out in the raffle, but I am confused on whose tank it came from.
 
It came from my Tank and I have Known it to Be Blue Ridge Coral as long as I've had it! But I could be wrong, It is definatly an SPS not to be confused with anything else. It gets as Bright a Emerald Green when happy that looks Fake.
What ever it is I have had it for around seven years or so and the Mother Colony was Soccerball Size.
Bill
 
poolkeeper1 said:
It came from my Tank and I have Known it to Be Blue Ridge Coral as long as I've had it! But I could be wrong, It is definatly an SPS not to be confused with anything else. It gets as Bright a Emerald Green when happy that looks Fake.
What ever it is I have had it for around seven years or so and the Mother Colony was Soccerball Size.
Bill
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Well Bill, I'm baffled. If you google 'blue ridge coral' it comes up as a soft coral and not SPS. So maybe it was labeled wrong from the get go. I am going to go on the assumption that it is a pavona or hydnophora coral. Either way I'm stoked to have it in my tank.:D
 
Is the skeleton blue? If so, it is blue ridge coral (which I suspect it is but hard to tell for certain from the photo).
 
dowtish said:
Well Bill, I'm baffled. If you google 'blue ridge coral' it comes up as a soft coral and not SPS. So maybe it was labeled wrong from the get go. I am going to go on the assumption that it is a pavona or hydnophora coral. Either way I'm stoked to have it in my tank.:D
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It is definately not hydnophora as I see no hydnophores (conical bumps)
 
A blue ridge coral is "hard" in that is does have a hard skeleton. It isn't an SPS coral though and is related to "soft" corals. I hope that makes sense. :)
 
the coral in the picture looks just like a green branching psammacorra to me. heliopora is classified as a soft coral though it does have a skeleton. i have never seen a green helipora. though it might be a pavona
 
rcmike said:
A blue ridge coral is "hard" in that is does have a hard skeleton. It isn't an SPS coral though and is related to "soft" corals. I hope that makes sense. :)
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Yes, that does makes sense. But Bill is sure that it is an SPS of some sort.
 
cee said:
You have to examine it after the tissue is removed, i.e. the dead skeleton.
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I read that is where blue ridge coral gets its name from is the blue on the inside. Which is weird to me. why would you name it after a color that you only would see when it's dead?

I dont plan on killing it anytime soon:spin3:
 
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