Mystery coral, possibly aphotosynthetic [Archive]

fishguy2727

01/01/2009, 09:21 PM

This is now growing on some live rock I got. You can see the skeleton of dead heads around the two live ones. They looked dead when I got them but were apparently alive enough. Yes, the algae is bad (there are 4 scarlet reef hermits slowly getting it taken care of and I will be switching to RO/DI soon since I will be able to get it for free at work). The heads are about 1/4-1/3" in diameter, not counting the tentacles. Yes, they remind me of mojano anemones too but they definitely are not. Some people on another forum could only come up with some sort of aphotosynthetic species. Any ideas?
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Gfsrepairs

01/01/2009, 10:27 PM

Google Pseudocorynactis and see if that looks like yours.

fishguy2727

01/01/2009, 10:35 PM

This is stony, note the skeletal heads adjacent to the live heads.

Gfsrepairs

01/01/2009, 10:55 PM

I thought the dead heads were rock.

Try Phyllangia americana.

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