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Mr.Jingles
07/25/2004, 08:56 PM
http://www.angelfire.com/co4/noilding/majano1.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/co4/noilding/majano1.jpg
these are from some live rock pieces that I just got. there are two of these on this one piece and another piece has one thats not a bubble. that one can be seen in the anemone clown forum under my name and it looks a little different in colors, but Im assuming they are the same thing (probably mejano). any confermation on this one?

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=405658


http://www.angelfire.com/co4/noilding/xeniaID.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/co4/noilding/xeniaID.jpg
this one I am more curious about because it's growing funky like the purple base is the coral and the branches are just polyps...I just dont know what could be. looks like xenia, but it grows different and its not a pulser. Any ideas?
thedude
07/26/2004, 01:15 AM
The first looks like a majano, but it's a little distorted looking. Don't nuke it until you can confirm it isn't something desirable. Don't wait too long or it may reproduce.

The second is probably a type of star polyp. The purplish base is more typical of the star polyps. They can come in green, brown.
kramgnik
07/26/2004, 07:45 AM
The first may be what is left from a euphyllia type of coral, perhaps a torch. It is on a skeleton of a euphyllia so the orginal coral may have died back and just a small piece of flesh made it, hence what you have now. Don't kill it until you determine it is a pest. Can you determine if the base looks like that of an anemone?
EricHugo
07/26/2004, 08:49 AM
LOL - I agree with all of you. The top photo needs to be confirmed that it is an anemone by examining the base. The second is probably Briareum (star polyps), but possibly Clavularia.
Mr.Jingles
07/26/2004, 09:27 AM
Here are some more pictures. I examined the base. I think you can see from the pictures that the polyps seem to be attached to the coral base, and don't have an anenome type base. The last picture is a better one of the star looking polyps. I'm pretty convinced now that it's a type of LPS that we're looking at in the first pictures! That would be exciting to me! it's from a live rock rubble piece i just got at the LFS... actually all my corals are minus a pulsing xenia (we just got started)

http://www.angelfire.com/co4/noilding/lps1.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/co4/noilding/lps2-1.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/co4/noilding/lps4-1.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/co4/noilding/lpsbig.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/co4/noilding/star1-1.jpg
Mr.Jingles
07/26/2004, 07:19 PM
may the first be frogspawn?
EricHugo
07/27/2004, 08:44 AM
Looks like some remnant tissue of your Euphyllia, then. Probably E. glabrescens, although the septa look somewhat exsert from what I can tell, which would be something other than E. glabrescens. Time will tell as the tentacle types develop more.
Mr.Jingles
07/27/2004, 10:26 AM
what is exsert? and septa?

btw, here are some more pics of the Euphyllia

http://www.angelfire.com/co4/noilding/frog1.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/co4/noilding/frog2.jpg