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sam1174
06/05/2007, 09:21 PM
I bought someone else's setup and this was included. I looked at all of the pictures on Melevsreef, but this wasn't there. It looks kinda bad right now, because I just moved it. I originally had it up on a rock near the light. then I moved it down to the sand, now it's back up on a rock. It seemed to do better up high. When the thing is looking good, it's about 6 or 7 inches across. Right now it's a little shriveled up. For scale, look at the little polyp and the turbo snail on the top left.

In real life it is a very light neon green. The actinics are making the color look screwy in the picture.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p31/martylunsford/IMG_4264a.jpg

sam1174
06/05/2007, 09:23 PM
By the way, the back side is like a hard, cone-shaped shell. I thought maybe it was supposed to be down on the sand like a plate coral, but it wasn't happy there.

zma21
06/05/2007, 09:35 PM
Frag of candy cane?

I can tell you it's a LPS though.

sam1174
06/05/2007, 10:08 PM
I don't think so. This thing is 7 inches across. This one single polyp is huge. I just looked up some pics of candy cane coral and those polyps are an inch across at the most. It does resemble the candy cane, but it is way too big.

badfish
06/05/2007, 10:10 PM
Looks like a open brain coral to me.
Here you go:http://www.wetwebmedia.com/trachyphlliidae.htm

Kribensis_2004
06/05/2007, 10:15 PM
i would guess a brain or a doughnut coral, but ya i think if you look in a database of lps you will find it

sunfish11
06/05/2007, 10:15 PM
brain coral

Impala1964
06/05/2007, 10:32 PM
brain coral from what I understand they are better on the sand if they fall they tear easy.

sam1174
06/06/2007, 07:51 PM
Yep. That's it. I found some other pics of open brain coral on the internets, and that is most definitely what I have. Now I'm going to start another post about how to care for it. Thanks for your help everyone.

zma21
06/06/2007, 09:07 PM
Tip of the day: Research the coral BEFORE you buy it. It will save you from a lot of heartache.

sam1174
06/06/2007, 09:56 PM
I know that, however for $350 I bought a 29g aquarium with 40 pounds of live rock covered with coraline, a Berlin skimmer, 10 various corals, a royal gramma, a bicolor blenny, decent lights, a 20 gallon sump, and 2 power heads. The open brain was just part of the deal. I couldn't pass it up.