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SFMMcoasters
02/15/2007, 11:53 PM
I dont really know if this is a soft coral or not. I just picked it up from my LFS. I couldnt get any better of a picture than this (sorry). It's got a shiny green color under the light, flows around anemone-like, very loose. White on the tips... Anybody know what it is?

http://img02.picoodle.com/img/img02/7/2/15/f_Fishy010m_582a672.jpg

dragon_slayer
02/16/2007, 01:15 AM
Amazingly enough that is a green Majano anemone, they are pests, you better kill them NOW. :)

best of luck eradicating them. I've taken down several tanks in the past because of them. they come in all sorts of colors, i believe a few pics of the red ones are still in my gallery.

kc

Aliie
02/16/2007, 05:58 AM
Looks like a torch coral to me. Mine was really bad about stinging other corals. If that is what it is..... watch what it touches.

SFMMcoasters
02/16/2007, 05:05 PM
Hmm, I really doubt its an anemone... Its a coral... lol. I mean- It was in the coral tank, there are 4 heads of it... on branches. Anybody else?

SFMMcoasters
02/16/2007, 05:19 PM
here is a better picture, its on the left in 2 heads, and a to the right of it in 2 heads

http://img03.picoodle.com/img/img03/7/2/16/f_Fishy015m_0ed62ec.jpg

dragon_slayer
02/16/2007, 06:09 PM
http://melevsreef.com/id/majano.html


kc

Aliie
02/16/2007, 08:01 PM
I may be wrong!! Dragon_Slayer seems to have the link.

Do yours have a tubular rock like base they protrude from or totally soft?

SFMMcoasters
02/16/2007, 08:11 PM
Yea, I know your trying to push that its an anemone, but it isnt. I talked to the people about the fact that it was a coral, and what kinds of things it needed, and alot about it. It is coming out of tubular rock base things, and the rock its on has like 3 or 4 other tubes from where dead ones were.

rssjsb
02/17/2007, 10:46 AM
Anemones don't have skeletons. It's an LPS, I agree probably a torch that's just not fully expanded yet.

Hormigaquatica
02/17/2007, 11:26 PM
It appears to be some kind of Euphyllia, as others have mentioned, likely a variety of torch (that is, if the tissue is growing from a stoney branching base, as they appear to be.)

There are a few color morphs, variants of green being the most commonly imported.

http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/101-200/Species%20pages/148.htm

SFMMcoasters
02/18/2007, 01:42 AM
Yea definately Torch Coral. Thanks for all the help.

Lutefisk
02/19/2007, 03:37 PM
I'm with the manjano crowd.

http://melevsreef.com/id/majano.html

If it were a torch coral at least one of them would have a noticable stony stalk.

While they are pretty, think exponential replication ...


Paul

sandshifter532
02/21/2007, 07:30 PM
THese have white tips and it looks like they have a base" Like plenty of people said" It doesnt look like a majano to me

Hormigaquatica
02/22/2007, 12:20 AM
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y183/Aguabeast/Chat%20Posting%20Photos/euphyllia.jpg

Majanos dont deposit calcium branches. Euphyllias do.

saltycreefer
02/22/2007, 12:22 AM
So A Torch!

Lutefisk
02/22/2007, 08:36 AM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9281979#post9281979 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Lutefisk
I'm with the manjano crowd.

http://melevsreef.com/id/majano.html

If it were a torch coral at least one of them would have a noticable stony stalk.

While they are pretty, think exponential replication ...


Paul

Wow! It looks like I missed some important posts when I wrote my reply.

With the last pic it is clear than it is NOT a manjano.

My bad


Paul

wantsalotta
02/22/2007, 03:53 PM
Def a euphyllia. MAy be a frogspawn, some that are stressed lose the other nodes in the polyps. Looks more like a torch, and a very nice coloration for a torch. Medium flow and med-high light will make it very happy.