help identifying corals

FishyFarr · Apr 3, 2010

anyone, anyone .......
ok so I watched ferris bueller again for the Nth time LOL

I will do the research if I can get the names of some of these.
trying to just search with pics is turning out to be incredibly time consuming.

Is this a birdsnest ? its always fluffy looking ?

ok and what is this. Looks a little like my kenya tree just more leathery and tough. it gets a bunch of little dots on the tips from time to time to but thats about it. it was about 4 inches taller and appears to be shrinking?

BTW is the gramma protecting his home from the camera or what ???

this one grows really slow but it is growing any ideas.
this pic does not do it justice sorry the little ones are really hard for me to get.

same coral a month ago

wicked demon · Apr 3, 2010

need better pics but;
#1-pocillapora damicornis (birds nest)
#2-sinularia
#3-hydnophora? with capnella (kenya) to the right.

Troylee · Apr 3, 2010

Definatly a pocilliapora and finger leather but not sure the third maybe a monti..

johnanddawn · Apr 3, 2010

wicked demon said:
need better pics but;
#1-pocillapora damicornis (birds nest)
#2-sinularia
#3-hydnophora? with capnella (kenya) to the right.

+1
but #2 is likely Sinularia but could also be Sarcophyton or Lobophytum hard to tell with it all closed up like that

FishyFarr · Apr 3, 2010

I know the picture does not do It justice but the stems are kinda feathery looking with just a bit of movement from teh water.

was just making sure that hydnophora was still right with that look.
the pictures I found on the net make it look more like acropora and this whole coral definitly has a "soft" look around the stems.