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03-25-2004, 06:36 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Tucson, AZ
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Calling Geoff, Tom, Jay, Doug Jerel and all TRT Please help ID this thing!
All right I've called out the big guns by name! Do any of you have any idea at all what this is? The top look lots like cup coral. But when the polyps retract the area they retract to is not all stoney and hard like a cup coral. the surface is leathery feeling and a flourescent orange. From this "head" there is a 3 inch stem that is attached to a rock.
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03-25-2004, 06:39 PM
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Little Fishy
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At a distance.. it's on the top.. middle.
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03-25-2004, 07:00 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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turbinariia peltata me thinks, otherwise called a pagoda coral! nice one tooo! i got one in my reef also!
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03-25-2004, 07:16 PM
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Little fish in a big pond
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I'm not one of the beautiful people that you called out  but I concur with SoutherReefer.
Pagoda/Cup/Turbinaria sp.
Pretty 
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03-25-2004, 07:24 PM
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Oh no...not again!!!
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Wow talk about raising the Red Flag.
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03-25-2004, 07:29 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2003
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Jenn please accept my humble apology... I would be more than happy to bandy your name about also! LOL
I would agree with you but I had never seen a pagoda cup with a stem? It looks just like a leather all the way til you get to the top and then I agree completely it looks like a cup coral. If that is the consensus.. then cup coral it is!
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03-25-2004, 10:32 PM
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Reefless Reefer
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is there a mouth in the center of the polyps? from the pics it does not look it. how fast is it growing? my cup grows on the geological scale. 
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03-26-2004, 08:58 AM
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Little fish in a big pond
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They come in many shapes and sizes. I've got a yellow scroll Turbinaria that has very small polyps and it's scroll-shaped, in my 120. I've had brownish ones, pinkish ones -beware the bright canary yellow ones with long polyps - they are often dyed and end up "died"... stay away from those. I've got a nice green one too, but it's a weird shape - almost paddle shaped with polyps on both flat sides. The three common descriptions I've heard are Cup, Ruffled and Scroll.
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03-26-2004, 10:23 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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me? one of the big dogs?  WOW, i'm honored
i honeslty have NO CLUE what it is 
but, i am gonna guess Turbinaria... mostly jsut cuz everyone else did 
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