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08/10/2014, 06:11 PM
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Coral ID please
My moms had this in her tank for 4-5 years. It's doing really great but we've never really known what its called. I've posted on a few facebook sites i am on and have been told
hairy mushroom fuzzy mushroom st thomas mushroom elegance coral From those choices to me it looks like a st Thomas but i figured i would get more opinions here then i could off Facebook.
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08/10/2014, 06:15 PM
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+1 for elegance coral.
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08/10/2014, 11:34 PM
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Not the best pics (sorry
 ), maybe some clearer pics will yield a better id. Is that the way coral is positioned in the tank, truly on a ledge like that, or does the pic need to be rotated? Even with those pics, I would disagree with it being an elegance. St thomas mushroom is possible. No other mushroom really fits that look, and I would expect an elegance to have much longer, flowing tentacles. My initial thought was either a bta or sebae anemone, but I assume you would have seen it move around at some point, would have been pretty obvious. Better pics and maybe a less blue light pic would help out. Thanks,Scott |
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08/10/2014, 11:38 PM
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Okay, rotated the pic a few times, I think it may be a grape bubble coral under purple/blue light. Thats my vote. Thanks,
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08/10/2014, 11:41 PM
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Pics are not really good but my guess is that this might be a Lavender Hairry Mushroom. How big would u say it is from one edge to another edge
Here are some that I have in my tank do the polyps look similar  
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08/11/2014, 12:02 AM
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Wow, those pics look pretty close. Oh well, shows what I know...
It kinda looks like a grape bubble coral...  Scott |
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08/11/2014, 04:26 AM
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Pics need to be rotated sorry about that.
Also its not an anemone as its never moved around the tank Here's a better picture that doesn't need rotated.There are probably 8 + in this picture but when they are completly opened up it just looks like 1 big piece.  I think its a St Thomas from comparing pictures to google. Everything else that's been suggested doesn't look close to me at all.
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08/11/2014, 02:52 PM
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its hard to tell with the camera ur using. Maybe a higher resolution camera would help as it is hard to see the polyps clearly. Its a really nice coral.
Post a pic of the coral you think it closely resembles lol. From your last pic it looks like the polyps/tentacles actually have a tip to them. hmmm. Curious
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08/11/2014, 03:59 PM
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Stumped me. My first though was elegance, now I am leaning towards hairy mushroom
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08/11/2014, 04:10 PM
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I really think you have a lavender hairry mushroom there buddy with green base. As for color wise i think its a bit transparent as the lighting may not bee very strong or it may be due to a different reason.
Lavender Hairry mushroom could have blue or green base. Mine as you could see in the pic has a blue base. I found this pic on the net of a LHM with green base.
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08/11/2014, 04:45 PM
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The tentacles are not rounded on it. Only way i can describe it is more of a ruffled looked.
Also picture was taken using an iphone 5 and the lights on the tank are reef breeders leds.
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08/11/2014, 04:47 PM
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I got reefbreeder lights as well and easy to snap pics with my Note2 phone
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08/11/2014, 04:57 PM
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I think the tentacles resemble this one.This is a st thomas coral.
Found the picture on ebay.
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08/11/2014, 05:16 PM
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hmmm very close resemblance.
I tried earlier to google image st thomas but didn't have any luck. You think you might have a bleached version of this? From what i could make out on your pic it does look very similar.
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08/11/2014, 05:18 PM
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what if its a bleached grinch red st thomas mushroom?
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08/11/2014, 05:22 PM
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It's not bleached.
Its always been the pink color with green base and the reef breeders leds have only been on the tank maybe 4 months. Before that it was GLO daul T5 54W fixture. I plan on getting one of them on Wednesday when i am at my moms house again for my tank. So by the weekend i will post some better pictures with my wife's $600 + Nikon camera lol.
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After looking at some of these other pictures that have been posted, I think AwwNuts is correct, Lavender Mushroom. Check this out.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...872&pcatid=872 Last edited by cloak; 08/11/2014 at 06:06 PM. |
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Will be posting better pictures this weekend for sure.
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08/11/2014, 06:14 PM
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Better pics would def help but mushrooms could loose color so nothing is impossible lol.
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08/17/2014, 04:54 PM
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Did u end up Id'ing ur coral as st thomas
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Nice. Well glad u were able to properly ID ur coral
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