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catchprj
08/13/2011, 12:53 AM
Hi everyone!

There is an auction on a local site for 29 coral frags. The price seems very reasonable ~175USD (corals usually start ~40USD per frag here), but I would like to know what I am buying before I drive 6 hours each way to pick them up.

Here are the pictures from the auction (they're not very good pictures). Can anyone help me ID as many frags as possible. There are some obvious species that I can see - GSP, leather, acro, zoas etc, but would prefer to know what they all are. Thanks so much!!!

http://images.trademe.co.nz/photoserver/54/182400054_full.jpg

http://images.trademe.co.nz/photoserver/19/182553919_full.jpg

http://images.trademe.co.nz/photoserver/15/182554015_full.jpg

http://images.trademe.co.nz/photoserver/79/182554079_full.jpg

http://images.trademe.co.nz/photoserver/48/182554148_full.jpg

http://images.trademe.co.nz/photoserver/3/182554203_full.jpg

http://images.trademe.co.nz/photoserver/7/182554307_full.jpg

catchprj
08/13/2011, 04:46 AM
So it seems no one is available to help at the moment, so I will attempt to name some of them myself, then someone can tell me what a terrible job I have done!

Photo1: All are explained further below. Unsure about 2 on top right to the left of GSP - orange stick and the one below it. Also unsure of bottom centre - are they finger leathers?

Photo 2: 2x acropora, 1 large zoa, bottom right = unsure

Photo 3: Pretty blurry...

Photo 4: 3x Kenya tree

Photo 5: GSP in background, acropora in foreground, zoa on left background, leather in left foreground (?)

Photo 6: Front to back: kenya tree, yellow star polyp (?), leather (?), more YSP, zoa, what are the polyps sticking up behind the zoa?

Photo 7: left to right: blue/green = acro, green/orange = plating monti, white = leather, little green in center = acro?, 3x larger acros (top middle and bottom center), the rest.... dunno... acros?, leather?


Can anyone help me further?

catchprj
08/13/2011, 05:11 PM
bump

catchprj
08/13/2011, 05:40 PM
Is there really no one that can help me? I'm sure they're not rare corals...

tkeracer619
08/13/2011, 07:40 PM
Looks like a lot of doubles and triples.

Sometimes it is hard to identify small frags since so many look the same until they mature a bit. Usually when people ask for identification they ask for 2 or 3 items but 29 :P. It could just be overwhelming to most who click the link.

There are a bunch of leathers. Toadstools and fingers.
The sps looks pretty good. A few caps, a green stag, maybe a tri color valida and a green slimer.
I like the zoas, I have the same ones but not sure of the name. Yellow polyps, two kinds of gsp.

Middle top of 3rd pic is a green nepthia. A really nice coral.