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Old 12/10/2007, 01:49 PM
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Yellow tort or slimer?




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Old 12/10/2007, 02:22 PM
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looks like a slimer to me
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Old 12/10/2007, 07:59 PM
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looks like a green slimer to me also
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Old 12/13/2007, 08:12 AM
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What do you see that makes you think it is a slimer over a tort? In this months TOTM the owner has yellow tort. To me it looks the same.
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Old 12/13/2007, 11:16 PM
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Does it slime you when you touch it?
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Old 12/14/2007, 11:49 AM
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Looks exactly like my green slimmer.....
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Old 12/15/2007, 02:03 PM
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It really doesn't slime. I frag it every two weeks and it never slimes. I guess they all slime different amounts. Some more than others.
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Old 12/16/2007, 11:30 AM
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The corallites look very much like slimer. Here's my slimer:




My yellow "tort" looks different (and early pic, colony is much bigger now):


The corallites are much thicker and stubbier than on slimer...
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Old 12/16/2007, 11:34 PM
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This is the closest i have of the coralites.

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Old 12/17/2007, 02:02 AM
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Slimer.
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Old 12/21/2007, 11:56 PM
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Not A.tortousa(tort) IMHO likely A.microphthalma or something similar. Much more of a stag type growth than that a tort.
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Old 12/22/2007, 01:58 AM
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Well, as far as I know yellow "tort" isn't a. tort anyway, it's actually austera. And also as far as I can tell from the pic, it doesn't look like the species known as the "yellow tort"l the corallites are sharper than on the yellow tort. Micropthalma is an interesting guess, but it really looks like slimer, to me at least.

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