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Discussion in 'SPS Corals' started by hnnhflns, Jan 22, 2013.

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  1. hnnhflns

    hnnhflns Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    I got some new corals this weekend, and I remember all their names except for this one:

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    Thanks!
     
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  3. evolved

    evolved Wrasse Freak

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    Looks like an unhappy birdsnest.
     
  4. PghSteeler

    PghSteeler Tassled File Fish

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    The branches look to thick and roudned to be birdsnest, plus it looks like it might be purple polyps Im not sure if I have ever seen a purple birdsnest. I am colorblind so if theyre not purple to think Im crazy!! lol

    The color and polyps and thick rounded tips remind me of a stylophora but it seems to be to branchy for one of those, they are usually even much thicker and knobby
     
  5. hnnhflns

    hnnhflns Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Yeahs, it's unhappy because it got taken out of one tank and moved to another and in the process had frags taken off of it right before the picture was taken. Its polyps are back out now and it is much happier.

    Is it a stylophora or seriatopora birdsnest?
     
  6. PghSteeler

    PghSteeler Tassled File Fish

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    I vote niether but hard to tell with the polyps retracted. It is very branchy and wavey like a birdsnest but the color and tips remidn me of stylophora.
     
  7. hnnhflns

    hnnhflns Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    The polyps are purple-ish and the stalk is orange/brown in color.
     
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  9. PghSteeler

    PghSteeler Tassled File Fish

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    Do the plyps extend and make it look almsot like a bush? Almsot liek it would be a mdium polyped coral and not an sps?
     
  10. Daniel072

    Daniel072 Giant Squid

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    Bird of Paradise has purple polyps. Just sayin
     
  11. PghSteeler

    PghSteeler Tassled File Fish

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    Ive never seen one before is that an ORA?
     
  12. hnnhflns

    hnnhflns Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    when the polyps are extended it makes it look like it is fuzzy or like velvet. Not very large polyps.