gorgonian ID + side question

[keddre]

Sorry if this is the wrong section, I don't know what gorgonians are considered.

Can someone ID which type this one is? I want to know so I can add on appropriately sized foods on this dry goods order.

Also, the side question: Can I place a NPS gorgonian (specifically a blueberry) next to this photosynthetic one, safely; or do they fall into different families and will try to kill each other?

Thanks in advance. Also sorry for the salt creep in the photo

 

[Labridaedicted]

Perhaps a Eunicea sp. I would space the gorgonians out. The non photosynthetic one will need lots of food and flow and placing another right next to it will block food and flow to it.

 

[mort]

I agree it looks like a Eunicea sp but also have a look at corks sea fingers (briareum I think off the top of my head), it's a polyp that grows up gorgonians but has the same colouring as the picture but that might just be the picture because it looks more Eunicea like.

I'd also space them out to maximise the flow but I'd also really shade the blueberry as they are notorious for getting fouled with algae. I've kept and grown lots of nps gorgs but the blueberry was the one I failed with. I kept it alive for a year but it never grew (or receeded) but then got a boom in mini brittlestar which stopped it opening fully and it gradually faded.

 

[Labridaedicted]

I agree it looks like a Eunicea sp but also have a look at corks sea fingers (briareum I think off the top of my head), it's a polyp that grows up gorgonians but has the same colouring as the picture but that might just be the picture because it looks more Eunicea like.

I'd also space them out to maximise the flow but I'd also really shade the blueberry as they are notorious for getting fouled with algae. I've kept and grown lots of nps gorgs but the blueberry was the one I failed with. I kept it alive for a year but it never grew (or receeded) but then got a boom in mini brittlestar which stopped it opening fully and it gradually faded.

Yeah, I was thinking briarium as well, but then I saw what looks like bright purple on the stalk, not the drab brown/ purple of briarium. It's one of the 2, for sure, though.

 

[keddre]

Thanks both of you, before I say anything I want to get home and take a second look. Until you guys mentioned it, I never noticed the purple, so I want to take a second look in person