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[Chioru]

Hi

I got these 3 pieces for peanuts... However I got no idea what are they

http://community.webshots.com/album/196953035MVhYVA

Pictures 012 to 017

Pipe organ?, someknid of brain? and a mushroom( actually there 3 on that rock) ?...

Also,

I got these white look like a snail thingys with my LR

http://community.webshots.com/photo/196 ... 2531fCLfAh

They spend most of the time on th LR.. and they get bigger I got 1 that is about .5 inch now. What is it? Good or bad...

Thank you

 

[iloverenae]

nice work if you got those fo peanuts, some nice specimans.

IMHO i think you have there some start polyps, (or zooanthids) do they come out or are they stayin closed?>

Yes thats def a brain there, looks like a Platygyra sp., could be wrong though.

And the third one is a mushroom, has it opened up yet or still closed like in the photos? Looks like ricodia actually but post some pics of it open and it will help.

good luck with them

 

[SnowManSnow]

The first one kinda looks like closed up zoos to me.... 2nd and 3rd I'd say a brain (not sure of details) and a bullseye shoom.

Anyone else?
B.

 

[Anonymous]

First the base definately looks like a pipe organ coral, although the top looks suspiciously like a zoanthid that's closed up, I've never had that in my tank so I dont know if it does that, if I had to put money down I'd say pipeorgan coral that has new growth or something. Also you got a sponge in there too

Second one, Maze brain coral, couldn't tell you any other specifics about it since just about everything I've seen have been under massive actinic lighting and give it a false color.

Unsure about the last one, from the slimy appearance out of water I'd have to put money on a mushroom species, but whatever it is nasty looking, hopefully it looks nicer in the water

 

[doublette]

I also vote for the first one being a pipe organ and second one a maze coral. Not sure of the last one.

 

[Chioru]

I added 3 more pics today...

star polip and pipe-organ coral is the same? ... anyway not all those polips are open...

http://community.webshots.com/photo/196 ... 4767WrPxTJ

The other thing it opened too... what is it?

http://community.webshots.com/photo/196 ... 4723yVUsyB

The brain is still the same... is it suppose to change somehow?

 

[SnowManSnow]

I'm sticking by my shroom theory for the one in question.. doesn't look too perplexing to me... maybe im just VERRY wrong...but it just looks like a red shroom is all.

 

[Anonymous]

Yah definately pipe organ coral, and yes they do have a polyp that extends like that, its not the same as a star polyp though as they have a very hard skeleton (the red things).

Hard to tell what the other thing is as it looks a tad blurry, it almost looks like galaxea, does that coral have an extremely hard body? or is it soft? if its soft its not galaxea.

 

[ricky1414]

The second pic looks like a fuzzy mushroom.

 

[Juck]

The mushroom looks like a Rhodactis

 

[romunov]

That snails is probably Stomatella varia. You can find more info here.