help idenitfying this

• Mar 14, 2009

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coltsfan3

Reefing newb

i got this rock from someone shutting down there tank and i am not sure what this is, At night the hair for lack of a better word goes in a then it is just a brown crust on the rock .. Thanks

 

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• Mar 14, 2009

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dustin_P74

Reef enthusiast

looks like a xenia coral to me

 

• Mar 14, 2009

• #3

Bifferwine

I am a girl

No, those aren't xenia. Those look like yellow polyps. The stalks give them away.

http://frontpage.simnet.is/dna/Yellow-Polyps-87.jpg
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-12/totm/images/Yellow-Polyps-71sm.jpg
http://www.reefcorner.com/images/YellowPolypsCloseup.jpg

 

• Mar 14, 2009

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coltsfan3

Reefing newb

Thanks for the thoughts, This thing has no stalks per say its more like a crust on the live rock ,see photo this is it when it is now bloosomed out .the lighter white specs are where there hair will come from

 

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• Mar 14, 2009

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Bifferwine

I am a girl

Google star polyps and colonial hydroids. Is it those?

 

• Mar 14, 2009

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coltsfan3

Reefing newb

Yea after looking closer ,i think they are star polys. Thanks I see the stalks now i have had mostly fish only before kinda of newbie to the corals