Hydnophora species

[pluvialis]

How many species of Hydno are there. I would love to see pics of your hydnophora.

[pscheel]

Here's mine
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[Frick-n-Frags]

If you get a chance to get ahold of the Veron "corals of the world" series. You will see some bizarre Hydno's in there.

edit: here's some coral trivia. If you look at that pic up there(sweet BTW) at the rightmost long branch, you can see a raised bump in the center of some of the polyps. That is called a "hydnophore" and hence the name.

[pluvialis]

Nice hydno u have there. I really like hydnos
I have a reall bushy one. u like to trade frags? Any other pics of different hydnos. I wish i had vernon's book

[pluvialis]

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this is under atinics 50/50

[Nikon_Guy]

Here are a few different views of mine:

Macro View



Just After Lights On



Under Moonlights Only

[Travis L. Stevens]

Look here: http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/coralid_search.php

Scroll down to "Hydnophora" under the Genus category, or press Ctrl+F and type in Hydnophora. You will find that they have 6 listed, but there might be more.

Hydnophora bonsai
Hydnophora exesa
Hydnophora grandis
Hydnophora microconos
Hydnophora pilosa
Hydnophora rigida

[dippin61]

heres one sending out sweepers of death

[gary faulkner]

Thanks Travis, I have a Pilosa for about 15 months now and never knew what it was. Great coral though.

[Satori]

[Travis L. Stevens]

Originally posted by dippin61
heres one sending out sweepers of death

THose aren't sweeper tentacles. They are messenterial filaments. Hydnophora possess the ability to send these out and actually digest and eat anything that it touches.

[technoshaman]

One of my favorite stony corals, also one of the roughest on anything near it!

Sweeper tentacles of doom indeed!

There are some really neat encrusting varieties I've seen pictures of too in addition to the branching varieties.

[dippin61]

Originally posted by Travis L. Stevens
THose aren't sweeper tentacles. They are messenterial filaments. Hydnophora possess the ability to send these out and actually digest and eat anything that it touches.

i know..

i just didnt feel like typing out messenterial filaments, as most dont know what they are, however people do know what sweepers are. basically the same thing, where i was coming from at least..

this one was mid attack and had hit the glass before it went on to the coral it was after.

[pluvialis]

So anyone know what species I posted above? Grandis or Pilosa?

[pluvialis]

anyone?

[A.T.T.R]

mine

[dc_909]

[crpeck]

Hydnophora killing ricordea





Brown star polyps (cockroaches of the coral world IME) getting the best of same Hydnophora

[aquarius77]

[Frick-n-Frags]

A.T.T.R. wins that hydno is too cool.

My favorite thing was watching my Hydno smoke xenia when they crawled too far up the Hydno. They literally smoked


those are all great pics of the difference between what M filaments look like vs sweepers

[pluvialis]

I agree! A.T.T.R. wins I did not know thre were so many species and growth forms

[A.T.T.R]

from what i read. the platings are rare. and that colormorph may be the only one in captivity ( it was a wild import. full colony)

so as of now there are 4 or 5 ( forget ho many frags i have out there) in other peoples tanks that i gave thm or traded them.
working on propagating it a bit faster.

i also have a branching blueish one.
but i have never seens them send out any white threads farther then 1 MM and infact didnt know the were capable of it!

i do know in a fight of them vs aiptasia hydnophora usualy wins

[supervdl]

how fast are your hydnophoras growing?

[A.T.T.R]

plating one is SLOW
braanching is about 1/2 inch a month

[jjmcat]

Im not sure what type this is but its the toughest coral I have ever owned.This coral was in a punctured bag that lived out of water for 3 hours in the back of a suv.