Coral???

[Angelajean]

OKay so I got this in my live rock and rubble.

Can someone help me identify it?

Thanks CH]

 

[Angelajean]

Perhaps white jasmine polyp?

 

[Angelajean]

Could it be Daisy polyp? It has 8 tentacles, white or cream color with a green center. The photo is taken under compact fluorescent actinic and daylight bulbs as well as LED moon light.
The beginning CUC are on it, 5 thumb size hermit crabs. It is coming out of the dried up coral.

Thanks,
Angie

 

[Bifferwine]

It doesn't look like the coral is opened in your picture. But from the one polyp I see on the right, it does look to be a daisy polyp.

 

[Angelajean]

Becky at Pacific East Aquaculture, I emailed her with the picture, said that from the pinkish purple bottom and the little polyps coming out she thought it looked like a badly beat up pipe organ coral.

Now I am trying to figure out how to nurse it back to health. Then it will be easier to identify.

It has 8 tentacles.

We will see thanks.
Angie

 

[Bifferwine]

Pipe organ is the same as daisy coral. :)

 

[Dana42078]

looks like gsp to me.

 

[Bifferwine]

No, GSP grows from a flat purple mat. Not tubes like that.

 

[fastrd400]

looks like gsp to me.

Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids!

 

[Bifferwine]

LOL at Dana because that looks nothing like GSP! :rofl:

"Looks like a toadstool leather to me!"

 

[Dana42078]

No, GSP grows from a flat purple mat. Not tubes like that.

Really? If i get bored as fuck ill go through the 40,000+ pictures i have on 4 different photobucket accounts to find my old mat of gsp. It is a mat WITH tubes that the coral comes out of.:Cheers: Dont get me started again Sarah :p

 

[Bifferwine]

Oh Dana! Sigh... ;)

GSP mat, it's got bumps but not elongated tubes:

 

[Dana42078]

wanna bet? (DO NOT BE LAUGHING AT MY OLD CELL PIC)

 

[Angelajean]

I was at the LFS taking back my carnivorous Olive snail, another ID question. Different thread. The owner was telling me that the pipe organ or daisy coral will retract and the tubes will fill in with calcium because of less than adequate conditions. It made it throughout the nitrogen cycle and is thriving now so we will wait and see.

I will post more pictures of it as it comes out. Any suggestions are welcome.


Thanks,
Angie

 

[Angelajean]

Re: Coral??? New clearer picture

Here is a new picture. I think it confirms the previous suggestions of it being a daisy polyp or I guess also called a pipe organ coral.
Thanks,
Angie

 

[Bifferwine]

Yes, daisy polyp.

 

[Angelajean]

Back part is a flesh color and front is whitish green. Would it be 2 colors? Perhaps different ages?