Thin acro

[Ebn]

Not sure what it is. Supposed to be blue once it colors up. The frag in the background is an icefire echinata if that helps with relative size.

 

[Kolognekoral]

Eric, hard to say at this point. It has qualities of the echinata group, but, also, A. fenneri

 

[Ebn]

Thanks, Jamie. I'm considering dissolving a piece and looking at it under the microscope for ID'ing. Think it's worth a shot?

P.S. You don't happen to own one of those in your avatar do you?

 

[Kolognekoral]

Eric, I would wait until your piece is well established before I take any skeleton samples. Looking at the base I see white skeleton which means it needs to build itself a base. Fooling around with it too much may kill it!

The picture was taken by a good friend of mine on the reef in Papua. He, also, got a few nice shots of H. denise on a different gorgonian. These critters are the size of your fingernail!

 

[Ebn]

That's part of the STN that occurred in the tank where it came from. I have another piece that I snapped off which still has partial tissue on it that I can use versus any tissue on that piece.

Those tiny little things are too cool. If only they were more available and easier to keep...