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09/02/2013, 08:39 PM | #1 |
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can anyone id this?
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09/03/2013, 02:25 PM | #2 |
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No idea. Is it alive? It looks like a big clean branch of Tonga rock. Can you get a closer pic of the polyp and corallite detail?
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09/03/2013, 04:32 PM | #3 |
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Yes its alive. I will get out a better camera. This was phone cam shot
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09/03/2013, 11:38 PM | #4 |
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Does it have loosely space tiny hair like polyps? If it is a coral, the shape suggest it could be a fire coral, a member of the genus Millepora. Not to be confused with Acroprora millepora. in the genus Acropora. I will see if I can find a pic of ours, which is a brown colour, yours looks bleached.
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09/03/2013, 11:56 PM | #5 |
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Crappy phone pic but it gives you an idea.
It slimes & the tiny hair like polyps tend to catch bubbles.
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09/04/2013, 05:19 PM | #6 |
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here r a couple more pics. really its not white. its just the white balance on tbe camera I can't get it right
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09/05/2013, 02:11 PM | #8 |
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Well it does have polyps and corallites. But I would initially guess some type of Porites. Where did it come from?
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0608
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09/05/2013, 02:17 PM | #9 |
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Got it from a local reefer getting out of the hobby. It's not doing well though loosing skin in random spots. Getting worse every day
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09/05/2013, 02:19 PM | #10 |
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Something that thick probably need really strong flow.
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09/05/2013, 02:19 PM | #11 |
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What does the empty corallite look like?
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09/05/2013, 02:54 PM | #12 |
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looks like a blue digi encrusted over tonga rock to me
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09/05/2013, 05:10 PM | #13 |
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I think the branch is the coral. If it were another coral over Tonga then it would have small branches of it own coming off of it.
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09/05/2013, 05:30 PM | #14 |
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I don't know what that means
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09/05/2013, 05:33 PM | #15 |
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What does the skeleton look like up close. The detail in where the polyps sit, the corallites, can better determine what it is.
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09/22/2013, 06:44 PM | #16 |
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i think porites also. i have a similar one in yellow
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