Random Frag

mrukus · Apr 5, 2015

Any help would be great. These little guys were rolling around in a shipment that came in to one of my lfs. He offered it to me for 10 bucks because of everything else I was buying. I said sure because you never know. They just started opening up. I assume they are an lps. Any idea what it is?

Tab28 · Apr 5, 2015

Could they be duncans. When they are fully open it maybe easier to tell.

Rob.D · Apr 5, 2015

Looks like some type of Galaxia species.

mrukus · Apr 5, 2015

I think it may be the galaxia. It has stringy extra tentacles that have been coming out. I'm trying to find pictures of other closed up frags. Like I said it just recently opened up enough for me to see the mouth.

Also when it's closed, the stony part left is spikey, looks like Duncan's stay softish and round. Thanks for the ideas. If there is anything else please feel free to comment.

Rob Top1 · Apr 5, 2015

I agree galaxia I used to have a massive colony and it would sting anything and everything it could. Then I learned a trick...FLOW was the trick. You would think having it down flow would prevent it from stinging as the tenticals needed to fight the flow. I found the opposite to be true. My hypothesis is that having the galaxia up flow it didn't "smell" the other corals. Worked for years. Than I donated the colony for a fraging demo. Wonder if pieces live on. I got it as a few polyp frag. Grew so well I started giving quarter size frags away by the dozen at swaps.
Fun coral with how fast it grows.

mrukus · Apr 5, 2015

can they take high light/flow? I have a spot right by my spray bar. If not how far should I be placing frags from this guy?

Tab28 · Apr 6, 2015

I have seen galaxea that look more branching than the normal ball shape. A LFS had a large colony that came in. Odd looking for sure. When galaxea is closed the skeleton of each polyp has spikes at top. Duncans will look like a funnel. With smaller spikes on edges of funnel.

Galaxea are very aggressive corals. Those sweepers will get 10" if not more, from the polyp. So keep every thing away from it. When i had one i used the flow to keep the sweepers to one direction. If you have random flow the sweepers will go everywhere. They like flow but the flow also causes the tentacles to get longer. They are very hardy and grow very fast.