ID please

[adrianleewelch]

These are images taken from new live rock, 2 are corals of unknown type, and my rock is covered in them(notice beautiful aptasia beside it) their polyps are closed as it is night, but when extended have a brownish color with lime green centers, the other thing looks just like a piece of dog feces for lack of a better term, and I see an opening on it sometimes when it is filter feeding, it is stationary and looks heavily calcified where it attatches to the rock, and my tiger cowrie loves to hang off the bottom of it.

[adrianleewelch]

my pics didnt show up !

[adrianleewelch]

I gotta resize them, maby ill have em up in a bit

[adrianleewelch]

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[icebear]

the orange one (second pic) looks like a sun coral, a low light LPS i think... each 'mouth' needs to be fed individually or it will not live.... if i remember right....[correct me if i'm wrong] the top pic looks like some sort of sea cucumber or a good sized nudibranch (can't tell the size from the pic).... but you said it was attached to something?

[adrianleewelch]

It is definatly attatched, I actually thought it was a branch on the rock like tonga ! that was until its mouth opened, and i can see inside when it opens and see a strange looking skeletal type structure, I hope the corals can make it, maby I should move them, they are right under the MH ! I thought they were all dead when the rock arrived, but every day they are extending more, almost 3/4 inch on the orange one, and I wonder if that is their natural color, I have some corraline that color on some of the rock, And it is Florida aquacultured rock if that helps with the ID

[aquareefer]

The coral you have in the third picture looks exactly like some I have that came in on some of my live rock. I looked in Eric Borneman's coral book and the only thing I see in the book that looks anything like it is an LPS in the Rhizangidae family (cup coral of some sort?) So far mine have been doing great. If anyone else has any ideas on this one I'm curious too!

[icebear]

Originally posted by adrianleewelch
maby I should move them, they are right under the MH ! I thought they were all dead when the rock arrived, but every day they are extending more, almost 3/4 inch on the orange one, and I wonder if that is their natural color,

if i'm right, the sun coral should be moved into a shadier spot. it should be its natural color cause they are a nice vivid orange in the wild. Does it look anything like the Title Header pic on the top of this Forum? (the coral behind the clownfish) cause i think thats a sun fully extended.

[adrianleewelch]

thats the same shape, but mine are brown, with the centers lime green, and miniscule lime green streaks radiating out towards the tips, might be all green later, it seems like they are becoming more and more green every day, Ive had them for about 10 days now

[Mafiaman]

It is Ivory Tube Coral

[adrianleewelch]

thanks for the replies ! now maby I can successfully research these animals

[Mafiaman]

The sientific name is "Cladocora" pronounced KLAD-o-KOR-uh

[adrianleewelch]

I just found a research society in florida that has done research on these, and it said the bright orange one is a "robust Ivory tree" and requires strong lighting, the other is found deeper and likes moderate lighting, too bad they are covering the rock, many I cant move, it aslo said they like alot of feeding, and they also explained the color change, from brown to green. It said that they were not reef builders and so did not have a big demand in the aquarium trade, does this mean that they grow slowly ?