What in Neptune's World?

[liquid]

In this month's Advanced Aquarist's Online Magazine, we have a mystery coral seeking identification. Can you guess what it is?

Please refer to this article in this month's Advanced Aquarist: http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/ ... eptune.htm Good luck!!!

 

[leftovers]

peanut turd sponge

 

[Anonymous]

Wow, that's cool. I have no idea what it is....

 

[Anonymous]

I have no idea..a plate of some sort or tubinaria? i wonder if John Brandt would know?

 

[liquid]

Heh when Terry gave me this photo to use for the magazine, I was stumped too! I'm as curious as the rest of you what this is.

Shane

 

[DaisyPolyp]

I'm going to say some meber of the family Zoanthidae, probably Zoanthus, but having a bleached or paled coenenchyme.

(I say this only because I couldn't find a Pachyclavularia without a redish-purple mat)

 

[John_Brandt]

Okay, I'm gonna put $50 on Oxypora.

And try out my Lucky Bigfoot...

 

[DaisyPolyp]

you're thinking like Oxypora Lacera?

 

[Anonymous]

I'll guess Echinophyllia

 

[DaisyPolyp]

so when are they gonna let us know?

 

[liquid]

LOL, the magazine's only been out 48 hrs!

Shane

 

[AF Founder]

so when are they gonna let us know?

No one yet, but I will tell you that it's a stoney coral, and was grown from a small fragment.

 

[DaisyPolyp]

No one yet, but I will tell you that it's a stoney coral, and was grown from a small fragment.

curses! ...i guess it's back to the drawing board

 

[Anonymous]

so that rules out zoos then :wink:

 

[hillbilly]

" The rare FUBAR species"?

 

[John_Brandt]

Stupid Bigfoot lost my $50.

This time I'm going with Montipora and a UFO.

 

[GSchiemer]

Symphyllia or Lobphyllia? Scolymia?

 

[Anonymous]

Gonistrea?

 

[AF Founder]

Symphyllia or Lobphyllia? Scolymia?

It definitely belongs to the Mussidae family, and is probably, as you suspected, Symphyllia agaricia. I'm waiting on the final word from its owner Morgan Litster of Inland Aquatics. Its blown up appearance is a response to relatively low light conditions. It has expanded to maximize its surface area to collect as many photons as possible..

 

[DaisyPolyp]

wow, you guessed Symphyllia agaricia from that picture? 8O you got skills.