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padi200
08/13/2014, 10:09 PM
So I saw this coral in the tank of a restaurant and was not sure what is what. At least as far as the color, I had not seem one like this. It did not look bleached so I think this is the natural color.
Can anyone help me to know what it is and where it might be available?

melvinakshay
08/13/2014, 10:21 PM
a hammer head coral ??

Waleedwale1
08/13/2014, 10:28 PM
Looks like a bleached frogspawn. Definitely a LPS, probably in the euphyllia family.

padi200
08/13/2014, 10:36 PM
I had tried to look up blue euphyllia corals and blue frogspawn and never found anything like it. That's why I posted the pic.

kurt_n
08/13/2014, 10:39 PM
Don't look for one like it... it's not healthy at all. Very very bleached. It's in a customer's tank (assuming this is a tank maintained by a LFS) versus the LFS because they know they can't (or shouldn't) sell it.

radksa
08/13/2014, 10:58 PM
I agree, very bleached frogspawn. Probably very pretty when it was healthy, it has a bunch of heads. If it is not attended to soon, the heads will probably start to die off, they are already not opening fully (assuming this pic was taken a little while after the lights were turned on). You see one like that in a store, stay away, can be rehabilitated, but not worth the financial risk.
Scott

padi200
08/13/2014, 11:46 PM
Thank you all for the help.... I really appreciate it.