Need Gorgonian ID #1

[BlennyBabe]

I work for Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. We received a shipment from fish and wildlife that was confiscated. It had gorgonians that were illegally collected in Vietman. They were broken off rocks. They have been aclimated and appear to be doing well. I am feeding them a ton of food and most are extended all the time.

My job is to ID them. At the very least I need to determine which are photosynthetic and which will need feeding.

Pictures of all of them can be found here.


http://cwu.facebook.com/album.php?ai...08&id=39205809

Here is the first one:
Yellow with white polyps. Branches are all one thickness and branching in multiple planes.


The tips are dead on several branches. It is attached to a rock.

[dendro982]

I'm taking information for a starting gorgonians ID at http://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/eng/67/0/0/liste.htm
When one can't be sure about correctness of any web information , this is the best source, that I could find.

[Nanook]

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