Since nobody visits the ID forum

[graveyardworm]

Here's a link to the thread which has been up since yesterday that only I have looked at.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1242970

 

[Echidna09]

I'd go with a goni.

 

[Scythanith]

I agree, Goniopora sp.

 

[elegance coral]

Go to goniopora.org. You should be able to count the number of tentacles to determine its species.

 

[graveyardworm]

Been having trouble counting tentacles, ssem to keep coming up with about 18. I'm gonna take a better look after the game. Go Pats

 

[Sk8r]

IS there an ID forum? Hmmmn.

 

[graveyardworm]

It is tough to find, I thought it used to be listed in the forums list, but now you have to follow link from the parent forum. Not sure why they changed that.

 

[graveyardworm]

Well apparently it is still in the forum jump list, how come it isnt shown when you use the forums tab?

 

[graveyardworm]

Any way the polyps are very small, about 1 cm across, and polyp tentacles are so short and stubby that its impossible to get a good count with the naked eye, and even with my hand lens I cant do it. So I took another round of pics hopefully I'll be able to make out more detail in this set. Any chance its a Porites?

 

[graveyardworm]

Moved the piece so I could get some better close ups.

 

[elegance coral]

I'm not sure what it is, but it looks nothing like goniopora in those pics.

 

[m2434]

Looks more like Pagoda to me...

 

[Echidna09]

We got something like that at work (we probably still have it, it was really ugly), but I never got an ID on it. Ours was totally brown and the polyps would come out about a centimeter.

 

[graveyardworm]

LFS couldnt sell it, so I got it for a real good deal. Its not the best looking but its healthy and growing.

 

[Jefe12234]

I have a coral that looks just like that. I got it from Fraggle Reef and they call it Astreopora. Mine arrived brown but has gotten some green color under intense 20k lighting. The polyps extend more at night but still no more than a centimeter.

http://www.fragglereef.com/zen/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=20_22&products_id=1551

 

[thecichlidpleco]

Whats the ID forum?

 

[organism]

that is an astreopora

 

[graveyardworm]

Awsome, I think we got it. Cant find any on Coralsearch with polyps that extend, but skeletal and coralite wise its a match. Thanks.

 

[graveyardworm]

Working on a more thorough search for information, but having trouble finding any info on a Long tentacle Astreopora, or even a picture of such a critter aside from the listing posted earlier. I'm gonna continue my search, but if anyone has any good ideas/links off the top of their head it would be appreciated.

 

[safrey]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11117766#post11117766 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Echidna09
... it was really ugly...Ours was totally brown and the polyps would come out about a centimeter.

:lol: