benray4fun
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nice!
Yellow toadstool questions!
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kingfisher62
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Thanks ,it is a start! Do you guys think i have to worry about the placement ? {i'm talking about the neighboring corals}
sir_dudeguy
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hm, that sort of looks more like a fiji yellow. How much did you buy that for? I bought my fiji yellow which is about...5 inches when fully open, for only 30 bucks from a store. They had just got them in that day, and the dude didnt even know what it was lol. I asked how much for it, and he said 30, so i was like SWEET!! I went back the next day and they had the rest of the ones they got listed as fiji yellows and were 65 bucks :lol: Gotta get lucky sometimes i guess.
But anyways...i say it looks sorta more like a fiji cuz it looks thinner. All my toadstools are pretty thick looking. And the polyps come out really far. Well you can see how they are in my pics above. My fiji tho...the polyps arent nearly as long and give it more of a "fuzzy" look. Hard to say tho at this point.
If it is a fiji tho, dont put it by shrooms. I put mine by my red shrooms and its just now starting to open back up after like 3 weeks (altho i never did move it lol). Its now just shadowing the shrooms.
But anyways...i say it looks sorta more like a fiji cuz it looks thinner. All my toadstools are pretty thick looking. And the polyps come out really far. Well you can see how they are in my pics above. My fiji tho...the polyps arent nearly as long and give it more of a "fuzzy" look. Hard to say tho at this point.
If it is a fiji tho, dont put it by shrooms. I put mine by my red shrooms and its just now starting to open back up after like 3 weeks (altho i never did move it lol). Its now just shadowing the shrooms.
benray4fun
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sir,
that toadstool could also pass for a yellow flower pot coral, they're so close in appearance..."take a look"...
http://www.marinedepotlive.com/flower-pot-coral---goniopora-lobata-corals--large-polyp-stony.html
My yellow fiji only ruffles and spikes up, it doesn't have polyps to extend. I see they're often called the same thing loosely because they're both soft leather corals, but of different orders the fiji is Sarcophyton elegans and the toadstool is Sarcophyton sp. Both requirements are identical.
Here's the link for more info on the difference...
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/scateg.cfm?pCatId=600
that toadstool could also pass for a yellow flower pot coral, they're so close in appearance..."take a look"...
http://www.marinedepotlive.com/flower-pot-coral---goniopora-lobata-corals--large-polyp-stony.html
My yellow fiji only ruffles and spikes up, it doesn't have polyps to extend. I see they're often called the same thing loosely because they're both soft leather corals, but of different orders the fiji is Sarcophyton elegans and the toadstool is Sarcophyton sp. Both requirements are identical.
Here's the link for more info on the difference...
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/scateg.cfm?pCatId=600
kingfisher62
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As far as I know it is a yellow fiji .It is just under 3 inches and It was priced at 49 bucks but i had a 20$ coupon if i spent 100 so I think of it that I got it for 30bucks. Seems less painfull that way!
I will keep everyone posted on how and what it looks like.
I will keep everyone posted on how and what it looks like.
sir_dudeguy
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no, i know mine isnt a flowerpot. Had one of those and they looked completely different. The flowerpot had much thicker polyp stem things (not sure what they're called? lol). The polyps on toadstools are very thin.
As for your fiji not extending any more polyps than is shown in your pic...they're supposed to as far as i can tell (judging by mine and every picture i've seen of them before). The polyps are short, but they do come out all over the coral.
One last thing...i read an article either on here or on Reefkeeping mag that said that leathers are almost impossible to get a 100% positive ID now. Reason being is there are so many that look VERY similar, but i think that it also sadi something about them sorta morphing? Not sure on that part. It had something to do with lots of them looking very similar and lots of them having different color patterns, and it can all be based on location. And the same coral might look a bit different only 20 ft from where it is in the ocean. Too many variables for them. Oh, and also you have the fact that every place that sells them calls them a hundred different things.
here's a pic of a yellow fiji, and you can see part of a regular toadstool on the bottom right..
Click on the picture on the liveaquaria one to make it enlarged. You can see polyps all over it. Short polyps, very much different from toadstools, but they're covering it all the way.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=651
This is one type of toadstool. You can tell that the polyps are longer and wavier..
Another type of toadstool...
Today when i get home from school i'll try taking a pic of my fiji yellow to show the difference.
As for your fiji not extending any more polyps than is shown in your pic...they're supposed to as far as i can tell (judging by mine and every picture i've seen of them before). The polyps are short, but they do come out all over the coral.
One last thing...i read an article either on here or on Reefkeeping mag that said that leathers are almost impossible to get a 100% positive ID now. Reason being is there are so many that look VERY similar, but i think that it also sadi something about them sorta morphing? Not sure on that part. It had something to do with lots of them looking very similar and lots of them having different color patterns, and it can all be based on location. And the same coral might look a bit different only 20 ft from where it is in the ocean. Too many variables for them. Oh, and also you have the fact that every place that sells them calls them a hundred different things.
here's a pic of a yellow fiji, and you can see part of a regular toadstool on the bottom right..
Click on the picture on the liveaquaria one to make it enlarged. You can see polyps all over it. Short polyps, very much different from toadstools, but they're covering it all the way.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=651
This is one type of toadstool. You can tell that the polyps are longer and wavier..
Another type of toadstool...
Today when i get home from school i'll try taking a pic of my fiji yellow to show the difference.
benray4fun
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Cool..."geat info" :thumbsup:
