Why is this called a Lavender Mushroom

[rjwilson37]

Why do they call this a Lavender Mushroom, when there is no Lavender color in it.

Is Lavender just a name for a type of mushroom, because this was purchased as a Lavender Mushroom.

 

[143gadgets]

Beats me, but I would like to know as welll.

 

[rjwilson37]

bump!

 

[21Reefman]

I noticed that many vendors say Lavender/burgundy when the colors I see are brown/tan. ya' know the color of the tissue? I guess they feel color is subjective to the viewers opinion? Though 25% of men are color defective so, it could be an honest mistake??
I would call(and I'm not a marine biologist) what you have there the Green Hairy Mushroom. Pretty cool whatever you call them

 

[Bippus]

I have those as well and I have always known them as Green Hairy Mushrooms as well.

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

This is just another reason why common names should be done away with. Will common names ever be done away with? No, but it's just nice to be educated about it. This Rhodactis species is called a Lavendar Mushroom because it often has lavendar in it when it isn't as healthy or slightly bleached or a common color morph. It's also called a Frilly Mushroom. And acutally, it's not common name: Mushroom at all. Though a closely related corallimorph, the common Mushroom is actually Actinodiscus or Discosoma. Also, eloborate common names are a way to increase impulse buys or confuse the consumer that the speculated item is actually something completely different. For example, there is a lot more "Lavender" on this Rhodactis

 

[landragon]

HIJACK WARNING
So how are these best cared for? I have had one for 8 months and I have never got it to do well. It has eaten a few times, and never really extends fully.
I have a 46 bow , 3 x 39 wat t5ho w IC reflectors. parameters are stable and all nutrients test out at zero except nitrate which hovers between 1-2.5 ppm. ph 8.2-8.3, kh 11, calcium 410. 11 hour photoperiod, one white two blue.
I am about to move it into my new 90 but don't know where to put it. I t seems most people find these easy but this is the only animal I have had a problem with. EVERYTHING else thrives. I am thinking I got a bum one, and have considered slicing and dicing it and seeing if any one makes it .

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

I would suspect the lighting. By "white" and "blue", do you mean 10,000K and actinic retrospectively? That would mean that they have about 39w of usable light. Sure corals use actinics, but not as much as high degree kelvin lighting. I would actually switch your bulbs to two 10,000K and one Actinic (420 nm- 480 nm, whatever is available in T5)

 

[landragon]

actually to save space, I did not describe the set up
they are touted as 11,000k. they are Geissman. I have a geissman Aquablue 11,000k (tons of par) a geissman Actinic 03, and a current 460nm blue. I do not think there is a lack of usable light energy in this tank. And I have tried with two whites . 1 x 11,000 + 1 xx 10,000, 2 x 11,000, 2 x10,000.... I really don't get it. tried with and without the reflectors, and all possible combinations. tried overdriving, and not overdriving. tried pointing all pumps in the other direction. Like I said, I am starting to feel I got a dud coral, but I have a hard time giving up hope.

 

[jmack]

I have one of those..it's on the bottom of my tank under the pc's..the biggest one on the rock is HUGE..I would say about 6 inches or more across. It looked like your pic when I got it (I had some alk problems at the time). Now it stays fully expanded until the lights go out. Check your levels it might be a little off, or maybe the lighting is too intense..do you have it at the top of the tank?

 

[rjwilson37]

Thanks for the Info Travis, I am not sure how much Lavendor mine will get under 72w PC in the Aquapod.

That picture was like 15 minutes after puting it in the tank, it was pretty expanded this morning, but I moved it again. I will post a picture of what it looks like tonight.