Recent content by Darquegryn

Thank you! I just wrote to them, and will let you all know how they respond. :)

Had a few more people look at the mystery coral. It's still a mystery...:P How do you use Wet Web Media? I have only ever flipped through the pictures...but there are SO many of them! Is there a place to actually ask a question there? I would try to contact the NY Aquarium, but that got...

Nice mushroom there! But mine is more of an encrustation... guess I still have a mystery on my hands. We called the guy who owns the shop we bought it from and mailed him a pic. He says leptastrea ... but pictures of that show the opposite habit, polyps around a crater, not polyps around a...

Hiya Biff :) I was beginning to lean that way myself. Here is another picture with my Hawkfish photo-bombing it The fish ought to give you some sense of scale at least. :) The Polyps are a ring around a stony protrusion. No nice little flower middles like on a Zoa. Thanks for taking a look...

*nod* been trying to research that direction (Hydnophora). I still haven't found anything quite like what I have. Perhaps its just an unusual variety. I may have to go back to my supplier when he is in and as him to check his invoice from the shipment. Thanks for some direction though!

Hi there... I have a hydnophora, and it looks very different from this. The hydnophora is green and branchy...the polyps give the whole thing a fuzzy appearance. The shape of the Hydno is kind of like antlers... this is flat...looks like an encrustation of a sort.

We picked this little frag up about a week ago. The person who sold it wasn't quite sure...thought it was a Favite, but it really doesn't look like one to us. If someone can help ID this, it would be great! I really like the look of it, and want to give it the proper care. It is...