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OnyxPS2
Mon, 19th May 2003, 10:38 PM
I got this attached from one of my coral rocks and transfer it to place in my tank with a good current & high light intensity. It was about 1/4" in diameter last month and it's about .45 tp 1/2" in diameter. Can anybody tell me what is this species. (scientific & common name will be appreciated)

http://www.onyxgames.com/images/mytery.jpg
JimD
Mon, 19th May 2003, 10:42 PM
Thats pretty cool! It looks kinda like a juvinile candy cane.
Tim Marvin
Mon, 19th May 2003, 10:48 PM
Cool, is it a stoney? Maybe a plate.
MikeP
Mon, 19th May 2003, 11:20 PM
I'm with Tim on this - looks like a fungia species. Does it have a 'stalk' or is the flat part flush with the rock?
OnyxPS2
Tue, 20th May 2003, 01:11 AM
Yes, does have a stalk, It's not a stoney it actually expands during lights on hours. It expands like the way meat corals do, but when it expands it also has several pointing protusion around it. I don't think it a young cansy cane's, because candy cane's even at a young stage lokks like grown candy cane's only smaller aren't they.

It's more of a plate coral but with a stalk. The stalk looks like the stalk of a frogspawn or those hammers with multiple stalk.
Tim Marvin
Tue, 20th May 2003, 01:07 PM
Hey, maybe you have come up with a new strain. The branching plate.... :lol:
OnyxPS2
Tue, 20th May 2003, 02:13 PM
:lol: :lol: :lol: Tim
djdubdub
Sat, 7th Jun 2003, 07:24 PM
Hey Onyx...

I've got the same thing in my tank...

I purchased a 20lb piece of LR from Alamo in SA... It's Deep Water Tonga and I noticed what looked like a skeleton tube with a slotted end... Then a few months later I noticed a new one "growing" next to it...

It's about 1/2 inch now, purple/brown in color, and comes out in the "daytime"... As it grows, it seems to grow a crown of W's around the edge... Then a new row will start... I've never actually touched it to see if it retracts... It does seem to stay "flat" with the live rock it it growing out of...

Let me know if you ever get an ID... I'm curious to know too...

Thanks... DJ...
jay3
Sat, 7th Jun 2003, 11:04 PM
Appears to me to be Blastomussa. Does it have a hard skeleton?
Jay3
djdubdub
Sun, 8th Jun 2003, 11:27 AM
Thanks Jay... I think this is what I have... Obviously his colony is a little larger...

Blastomussa Merleti
http://www.moyesreef.com/lps/Blastomussa1b.html