Could you please ID this?

joojoo · #1 07/27/2004, 03:36 PM

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.

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i hope this helps, thanks.

s1xtyfe3t · #2 07/27/2004, 06:18 PM

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 · #3 07/27/2004, 06:48 PM

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

rshimek · #4 07/27/2004, 07:14 PM

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 · #5 07/27/2004, 07:15 PM

[moved]

EricHugo · #6 07/27/2004, 11:48 PM

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