Soft coral id

[Rara4293]

Tips on best way to care would also be appreciated. Looking to ID the big one in the back, might be a frogspawn

 

[stevo01]

It's hard to tell on the big Euphyllia in the back, which makes me think. It could be FS, but it might also be Cristata. Pretty sure If there are not any branching tentacles it's not FS. My guess gold tipped Cristata, Grape torch.

 

[stevo01]

I think those are porites or leather on the upper left. Maybe a finger leather.

 

[stevo01]

Some green Actinodiscus mushroom maybe Rhodactis below Euphyllia.

 

[Rara4293]

Should they be all connected like that or is it better for the growing to separate them?

 

[stevo01]

That's Cristata. I have one too.

 

[stevo01]

Should they be all connected like that or is it better for the growing to separate them?

That's an LPS. It requires better water quality than the softies in there. I also feed mine every week with mysis, raw table shrimp, cyclopeez. You should leave it as a whole colony unless you wish to cut the heads for fragging. I would let it be it's really nice specimen.

 

[stevo01]

Keep an eye of your top 5 parameters. Keep Ca, Mg, Alk up to par and keep the nitrates/phosphates low. Maintain your ph, but allow for a little swing day to night. Temps swing is nice also day to night. The softies will let you know if your starving them out. You have fish, or any poopers?

 

[Rara4293]

Yes two., a small yellow tang, and a chill maroon clown

 

[Rara4293]

And tons of snails

 

[Jay_M]

I will say that my frogspawn looked just like that for the longest time, then, I changed lighting, (and number of other things, like tank and flow ) and what was sold to me as a single head, $10 torch coral now started looking like a frogspawn.

I will say that for months, there were no branching tips then one day they started branching, and it turned into your typical looking frogspawn, without question.

I will say that this is deff just my $0.02/ experience, and that I would agree that it could also be Cristata.

Hands down its either an not so happy Frogspawn or a Cristata (IMO).