New to corals and salt water keeping in general. This piece came on a piece of live rock. At fist I just assumed it was some sort of soft coral until I touched it. Its hard and feels like sand paper. It has very tiny polyps. Any help would be appreciated. Also any one know what kind of anemone is pictured? Also a hitch hiker.
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Maybe monti, king of looks to be the start of some type of chalice. Here is one for example http://sdmas.com/corals/143.php .
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I was thinking the same thing. Looks like a chalice of some sort, which is still a vague description.
Ive looked up Chalice and montis, not chalice for sure and I still cant tell if its a monti.
The polyps are extremely tiny. The also seem to be spaced out kind of randomly which I find odd. The feeders/feelers/what ever they are called, are really fine as well. It is growing, slowly, but growing. It has also started to lift up and away from the rock I suppose much like the pictures of montipora do.
The Majano was injected with boiling tank water with a few drops of lime juice. It disappeared in a puff of smoke and has yet to return in the last 24hrs.
The polyps are extremely tiny. The also seem to be spaced out kind of randomly which I find odd. The feeders/feelers/what ever they are called, are really fine as well. It is growing, slowly, but growing. It has also started to lift up and away from the rock I suppose much like the pictures of montipora do.
The Majano was injected with boiling tank water with a few drops of lime juice. It disappeared in a puff of smoke and has yet to return in the last 24hrs.
Frick
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I couldn't tell if i was looking at tiny polyps of the ridges of the skeleton. Some ridges for a circle pattern. That was my reasoning.
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Didn't have to look at the pic, I just read the op clearly described in his first post.
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Not any sort of Briareum for sure. It IS a stony coral.
I did fine a pic of heliopora that looks similar. Ive got it in a BC29. Like stated earlier, it is growing, slowly though. Im retrofitting LEDs in a couple of weeks maybe it will grow a bit faster.
Still interested in figuring out what it is though!
I did fine a pic of heliopora that looks similar. Ive got it in a BC29. Like stated earlier, it is growing, slowly though. Im retrofitting LEDs in a couple of weeks maybe it will grow a bit faster.
Still interested in figuring out what it is though!
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