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Old 12/13/2007, 02:15 PM
BlennyBabe BlennyBabe is offline
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Gorgonian ID #2 & #3

Here are number two and three. The water is a little cloudy from all the greenwater and naups and everything else I have been adding.

Number 2: Red with Yellow polyps. Mostly in one plane though rather random.




Number three: Yellowish with bright blue polyps. Both planar and non planar growth. I have three or four individuals of this species (at least as far as I can tell they are the same species.)






This one is a little different growth form:

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Old 12/14/2007, 10:21 AM
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They were discussed here .
The blue-polyped one is likely blue Menella, and the red one - likely Elisella or Leptogorgia.
And I prefer to feed by zoo, not phytoplankton.
 

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