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chris121277

10-25-2009 03:20 AM

Coral I.D......hairy shroom?

ok....so I picked up this unknown coral at the LFS (they had no idea what it was).....to me it looks like a shroom but it has balloon like polyps very similar to a frog spawn only purple and blue......underneath that is a layer of blueish green

Any ideas?

http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/PA220001.jpg
http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/PA220003.jpg

lorenz0

10-25-2009 05:35 AM

looks like frogspawn. does it have a skeleton it can retract into?

chris121277

10-25-2009 02:14 PM

nope......the body is very much like a mushroom

chris121277

10-26-2009 03:32 PM

Nobody can tell me what this is called?

Drock169

10-26-2009 04:32 PM

Rhodactis mushroom

dsaundry

10-26-2009 07:49 PM

+1 on the Rhodactis mushroom

chris121277

10-26-2009 09:50 PM

Thanx guys........I'm just googleing that trying to find a pic of one that looks like these 2.

Drock169

10-27-2009 05:22 AM

Rhodactis covers a very large variety of mushrooms, it might take awhile to google one that looks like yours.

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