Help me Identify coral
 

hey guys saw this at the local fish store can anyone help me identify it please?

is it a softie and can i put it in with Power compact lighing 50w 10k 50w atenic

http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...g?t=1285435840

carnation coral

Its a non-photosynthetic coral, which means "leave it in the ocean". The vast majority of these slowly starve to death in aquariums since feeding them properly will usually result in polluting your tank. A specially non-photosynthetic system can be set up with large refugiums and including sources of coral food (maybe the bacteria from biobeads or other special "filters"). Otherwise, in a mixed reef, your other corals will suffer from the overfeeding necessary to try to keep one of these non-photosynthetics alive and a lot of times, even that is not enough.

Dendronephthya sp. A system like this one is ideal (necessary?) to keep one: http://reefkeeping.com/joomla/index....k-of-the-month

Beautiful Corals...which is why i bought one against the advice of our fellow Canreefers...I thought I could do it, but it was so very close to death after a few weeks that I had to trade it away or continue to watch it die.

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Avoid Dendronephthea altogether. That one already looks pretty miffed.