Could you please ID this?

[joojoo]

Dear Doc,

Having been unsuccessful at identifying my recently purchased coral in the other forums, I have been told to post here. Another Reefcentral member also has this in their tank and has not been sucessfull either in it's identification.

Here is a larger picture:

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/28067kl.jpg

here is a more zoomed pictire:

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/28067gogo.jpg

here is the most zoomed picture:

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/28067zoomed_smaller.jpg

i hope this helps, thanks.

[s1xtyfe3t]

Looks Like star polyps to me... if not I'd like to know what they are too cause I have a ton of them.

[joojoo]

i was told they're like them, but they're not GSPs. They have 8 tentacle things.

[rshimek]

Hi joojoo,

All soft corals have 8 tentacles on each polyp, it is a characteristic of the group. They look rather like star polyps to me, but I will move this thread to Eric's forum so he can give his expert opinion.

[rshimek]

[moved]

[EricHugo]

agreed. The real name is Briareum ( many people still call them Pachyclavularia)