As if we needed another reason to NOT eat this [...]
Imported many years ago, now aqua-cultured by many reef enthusiasts, the Tie Dye mushroom coral is actually a corallimorph. There is a long standing debate that “jawbreaker” and “tie dye” mushrooms are different, but they are the same. The picture above came to us from Joe Knows [...]
In an enormous new publication cataloging the taxonomy and classification of anemones and corallimorphs (all 1,100 or so species of them), several common aquarium species have been given some new nomenclature. Compiled by one of the world’s leading authorities on the group, Dr. Daphne Fautin of [...]
The morphological differences that serve to separate anemones, corals and corallimorphs (i.e. “mushrooms”) are not always obvious, and perhaps nowhere do the lines separating these groups blur so much as with a peculiar, tentacled beastie found in many reef aquariums: the so-called “Orange [...]