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BlennyBabe
12/13/2007, 01:15 PM
Here are number two and three. The water is a little cloudy from all the greenwater and naups and everything else I have been adding.

Number 2: Red with Yellow polyps. Mostly in one plane though rather random.
http://photos-809.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sctm/v161/98/71/39205809/n39205809_31194463_1804.jpg
http://photos-809.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sctm/v161/98/71/39205809/n39205809_31194474_5577.jpg


Number three: Yellowish with bright blue polyps. Both planar and non planar growth. I have three or four individuals of this species (at least as far as I can tell they are the same species.)

http://photos-809.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sctm/v161/98/71/39205809/n39205809_31194457_9767.jpg
http://photos-809.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sctm/v161/98/71/39205809/n39205809_31194472_4891.jpg
http://photos-809.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sctm/v161/98/71/39205809/n39205809_31194504_6889.jpg
http://photos-809.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sctm/v161/98/71/39205809/n39205809_31194502_2883.jpg

This one is a little different growth form:
http://photos-809.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sctm/v161/98/71/39205809/n39205809_31194499_4857.jpg
http://photos-809.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v160/98/71/39205809/n39205809_31194495_4598.jpg

dendro982
12/14/2007, 09:21 AM
They were discussed here (http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1262842) .
The blue-polyped one is likely blue Menella, and the red one - likely Elisella or Leptogorgia.
And I prefer to feed by zoo, not phytoplankton.