ID Ideas
 

There is a coral at the LFS that I'm curious about, the fellow says it came in with out being ordered and he's just not certain what it is. It looks alot like Shao's Fungia but instead of a large mouth it has many tiny mouths, other than that it looks like the fungia, green/brown/gray with those little triangular shaped things that go up (assuming they are a polyp of sorts).

Anyone have any idea what I'm looking at?

Doug

bump.. please?? anyone got any idea??

I am having the doggonest time trying to picture in my imagination what you describe. Sorry, not a clue from me. Can you sneak a picture of it?

Re: ID Ideas
 

excellent description :wink:

Personally I have no idea what you are talking about. You don't have any reference books or anything to find something similar? I'll have a look at mine after work and see if there is anything that fits that description.



..."go up" :rofl: :razz:

Christy :)

http://www.saltcorner.com/sections/z.../Ffungites.htm

It looks very similar to this except it's got what appear to be many tiny mouths all around it rather than a large mouth at the center.

Sorry for the description... but.. it's kinda green/brown/gray with those triangular shaped things that go up... or.. towards the light.

long tentacle plate coral?

It doesnt look like the long at all, when I searched for short tentacle though it looks similar to some of them but they all seem to have a large central mouth. This one doesn't have that large central mouth it has a bunch of small mouths spread out all over it.

Doug

Polyphyllia Slipper Coral. That's my guess. It's either that or a Frog fish :microwav:

This may or may not help, but you could always try and ID this here

http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/coralsearch.php

Taz thanks that really narrowed the search. I'm going to buy it and then get some pictures I think.

Doug

Looking through picture after picture after picture and I can find a million things that look like it but nothing that's exactly like it, IE all the mouths... so far I've narrowed it to possibly being a Halomitra meirerae but.... I'll keep looking

Doug

Just take your camera to the store! :razz:

I can't get good pictures, My camera doesn't do the macro thing very well.

I'll just buy the coral and get some pictures that way...

Doug

Were is it? Maybe some one else can go by and grab a shot or just a look

J

I believe the coral may be a Halomitra meierae, not a great pic, all the white areas are mouths.

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/sho....php?photo=377

Any thoughts?

Doug

Hi Doug,

Did a quick search and came up with this site:

http://www.reeftalk.com/reviews/show...p?product=1105

looks pretty close to your picture. It could also be a Halomitra pileus, which is similar but has more mouths (according to the link above).

I wondered that as well but the pic of pileaus is very odd so I don't think it's that. http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch...0pages/855.htm You can veiw pileus by linking off of this pic.

Doug