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Old 11/17/2007, 06:20 PM
SoundsFishy2me2 SoundsFishy2me2 is offline
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Unknown Coral ID please. What is it! See Pics

Found two of these little hard corals at a LFS and not sure what they are. Sorta look like baby elegance corals with the top structure and a meaty inside with colorful red and green tentrals that come out to feed. The outside is hard sort of cone shaped with a small hole at the bottom tip. They use a "solid tube like foot" from that hole to push/pull like a snail thru the sand to move locations on occation but mainly stay in one spot for long periods of time. When feeding they have brilliant color and extend upward about 1/2". What is it???









The cone is reddish/tan in color. The hole is the same on both so it's not likely from a predator.





I placed them high in the tank and they loved the light and extended but would push themselfs off the rocks into other corals or between rocks so I put them back on the sand where I think they are meant to be with that foot thing.

What do you think?
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Old 11/17/2007, 06:39 PM
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VERY cute! ...must be bad but very cute! I don't have a clue?!
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Old 11/17/2007, 07:08 PM
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Hi L. I don't think their bad, they don't seem to mess with anything just move for light or flow sometimes. Hey can I still p/u some of the home/school made rotofers and phyto sometime?
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Old 11/17/2007, 07:17 PM
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Old 11/17/2007, 07:26 PM
SoundsFishy2me2 SoundsFishy2me2 is offline
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Hm. by george; John I think you got it!! Thanks! The two I have do seem to stay close to each other. They are much more colorful then the pic on the site but looks like the same. Thank you!

BTW: Thanks for helping with the R/O/DI unit last week. I will come by and pick it up Saturday.

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