What am i? and where do i prefer to be placed?

[andamanocean]

Found on Rock ledge growing at water line low tide..., green and brown (think the brown was actually yellow in the sea).

 

[vhuang168]

Looks like sun coral. It is non photosynthetic so as long as there is flow, it doesn't care. Problem is you will have to target feed it and usually it only extended its polyps at night.

I suggest returning it to the ocean.


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[andamanocean]

Ah cool, nah its always got its polyps out, and seems content, target feeding is not a problem, bare in mind also my tank is fed directly by the sea water off the reef (will look at ways of pumping in directly later as its only 20mtrs away) so i am guessing it gets its food out of the water correct?

Plenty of flow 12000 litres in wave makers plus return should be enough surely, bare in mind low tide on the rock work so spends half the day out of water or with no flow?...

 

[andamanocean]

Ah... nah, its not suncoral unless in another colour... as mine is brown and green (two different types) https://www.google.co.th/search?q=s...ved=0ahUKEwioy6On3bvMAhVPHI4KHRGFAYYQ_AUIBigB

 

[nuttyd]

looks like a florida native coral called the boulder star coral.

 

[andamanocean]

Ah, but i live on the ocean at Phuket....

 

[andamanocean]

Its Soft...

 

[nuttyd]

seems like the thai version is the double star coral but basically the same thing.

 

[andamanocean]

Star coral is LPS/SPS?

This is softies...

 

[andamanocean]

Further more grew in strips not like a brain coral

 

[andamanocean]

i thought it would be a form of zoanthid, bare in mind also it remains closed at night but open during the day...

 

[Patwa]

it's palythoa sp .....encrusting palythoas. I've seen them in the Caribbean a lot (p. caribaeorum)....if you're in the indo-pacific, yours is p. tuberculata

 

[andamanocean]

thanks, yes, well Indian Ocean, Pacific is the other-side of the mainland... (phuket),

 

[andamanocean]

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/p...palythoa-high-res-stock-photography/128943777

Yeah looks like my guys

 

[andamanocean]

anyone got any information on Palythoa tuberculata? nothing online when search, just One image....

 

[Patwa]

treat them same as other palythoa......wear protection when fragging, for hand and eyes. otherwise it's a fairly hardy coral. It's sometimes found in the tidal zone, so it can handle being exposed to air as it just closes up.

 

[andamanocean]

Ha, yes i litterally ripped it off the bolder down the beach (low tide), though ive noticed one has died partially, (crab been eating at it) as my LR is off the reef fall (stuff washing up on the beach), its full of crabs and cant i am pulling them out daily, one bugger a blue clawed one is at least 50pence in size...

Sure i also have a manta in there...

Anyway, moved the damaged one to just below the water line, all others are doing just fab !