Help Identify My Coral.... Please

[retiredsailor]

This is my last of three posts looking for names of the corals I have. I want to make a quick reference guide of what I have and want to eliminate any confusion. I'm sure I'm reinventing the wheel, so to speak, but I don't mind that. In the end I'll have something I can keep close at hand, or close at tank so to speak, and won't have to wade and search around for the answer. Plus it will prove extremely useful in answering any questions my daughters may come up with.

Without further ado:

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Thank you for taking the time to like and hopefully offer your insight.

And if I am posting this in the wrong place and upsetting the balance of thread-life, mods feel free to move it with my profuse gratitude.

Ian

 

[EDO]

This is my last of three posts looking for names of the corals I have. I want to make a quick reference guide of what I have and want to eliminate any confusion. I'm sure I'm reinventing the wheel, so to speak, but I don't mind that. In the end I'll have something I can keep close at hand, or close at tank so to speak, and won't have to wade and search around for the answer. Plus it will prove extremely useful in answering any questions my daughters may come up with.

Without further ado:

1.
2. toadstool
3. blue sympodium
4. trumpet coral

5. hammer coral
6.

Thank you for taking the time to like and hopefully offer your insight.

And if I am posting this in the wrong place and upsetting the balance of thread-life, mods feel free to move it with my profuse gratitude.

Ian

 

[evolved]

Frogspawn
Toadstool leather
Sympodium
Trumpet
Branching hammer
Goniopora

 

[retiredsailor]

Frogspawn
Toadstool leather
Sympodium
Trumpet
Branching hammer
Goniopora

How confident are you with the frogspawn ID? I only ask because I have a frogspawn next to the hammer that looks completely different.

 

[SaltyT]

Frogspawn
Toadstool leather
Sympodium
Trumpet
Branching hammer
Goniopora

+1

 

[evolved]

How confident are you with the frogspawn ID?

Confident enough that I don't have any other possibilities to give.

 

[retiredsailor]

Confident enough that I don't have any other possibilities to give.

Very nice. I'm really struck by the difference in appearance between my two frogspawn!

This one I just got at Reef-A-Palooza...

And this one has been in my tank for about nine months. It started off as a small frag on a plug.


Based on the photos I think you can understand my initial confusion.
By the way, what is it doing in the following photo? It's the second time this week I've seen it doing this.

Thanks again.

Ian

 

[EDO]

that last pic look like a mushroom, I have a hairy mushroom that does that if I feed it a mysis shrimp. check this link I think you have grouping of them.
http://www.happycoral.com/hairy-mushroom

 

[Tahoe61]

Very nice. I'm really struck by the difference in appearance between my two frogspawn!

This one I just got at Reef-A-Palooza...

And this one has been in my tank for about nine months. It started off as a small frag on a plug.


Based on the photos I think you can understand my initial confusion.
By the way, what is it doing in the following photo? It's the second time this week I've seen it doing this.

Thanks again.

Ian

Yeah easy mistake, it's a Corallimorph not Euphyllia (frog spawn), perhaps Rhodactis.

 

[evolved]

Yeah easy mistake, it's a Corallimorph not Euphyllia (frog spawn), perhaps Rhodactis.

Yup; that side shot made all the difference, plus one of them closed up to eat something...

 

[retiredsailor]

I'm glad that's all cleared up. Thanks everyone.

 

[dwebb1031]

Your leather more specifically looks to be a Devils hand leather

Early shot of mine,

What do t looks like now.

 

[retiredsailor]

Wow @dwebb1031 . Color and texture and polyp look exactly like mine. Just the shape is a little different. Thanks for the heads up.