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goldy281
07/17/2004, 07:25 PM
Bought this for 15$ but i forgot what they called it...


Thanks!


http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/63504what_is_this.JPG
goldy281
07/17/2004, 07:44 PM
could it be acanthastrea??
EricHugo
07/17/2004, 10:35 PM
Can't tell...no scale and no skeleton to see - a mussid, almost assuredly, but that's a lot of corals.
goldy281
07/17/2004, 10:50 PM
it is like a mushroom on a rock...
roberts722
07/18/2004, 12:17 AM
It looks like a blasto maybe???? Or not?

Some type of mussid..
mane3215
07/20/2004, 10:15 PM
Blastomussa Wellsi
Sugar Magnolia
07/21/2004, 09:34 AM
Looks more like a group of Rhodactis to me.
MarLooney
07/21/2004, 04:22 PM
i have to second the wellsi. that's what i first thought when i saw it. the coral's not that pretty IMO but atleast it's not a common color variant. good find at $15 ;)
MCsaxmaster
07/21/2004, 10:46 PM
As Eric said, it's a mussid but it's impossible to say which. It might be Blastomussa wellsi, but it might not be either.

Cheers,

-Chris
bastos
07/26/2004, 01:44 AM
Blastomussa Wellsi, I can bet my life on it.
EricHugo
07/26/2004, 08:51 AM
bastos, I'd hate to have to attend your funeral. How can you possibly say that?
bastos
07/26/2004, 12:53 PM
I have 10 colonies of Blastomussa Wellsi's and 2 colonies of the Merletti's. Blastomussa's are obviously my all time favourite Corals. I've spent countless hours observing them. I'm sure experts can back me up on this one.
the_two
07/26/2004, 08:00 PM
ummm....
I think that EricHugo is an expert?
mane3215
07/26/2004, 08:31 PM
Originally posted by the_two
ummm....
I think that EricHugo is an expert?

Yeah Eric is the expert =), thats why we ask questiosn in his forum.

I would strongly feel that is a blasto though, I have 15, and it is identical to some I have seen.
EricHugo
07/27/2004, 08:37 AM
Well, the reason I ask is that I have no feel for scale in this photo, and the polyps could be much larger than Blastomussa. The skeleton also looks like it might be more phaceloid than is common with collected Blastomussa which are usually plocoid to subplocoid. Veron notes that Blastomussa wellsi is phaceloid, but I have yet to see a truly phaceloid B. wellsi in the wild or in stores or in my tanks. I can't see any septa or other skeletal characters at all, the color is more typical of other mussids like Lobophyllia. Nor do I see evidence of the little points to the polyp that are often (but not always) present on Blastomussa. I'm not saying it isn't, and it would be among my top choices if I had to guess, but I can't say for sure and I don't think anyone else can, either based on the information in the photo.