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FAQs about Identification of Soft Corals
of the Family Alcyoniidae 3
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Soft Corals of the Family Alcyoniidae
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Identification, Soft Corals
of the Family Alcyoniidae, Alcyoniids 2,
Alcyoniids 3, Alcyoniids 4,
Alcyoniid Selection, Alcyoniid
Compatibility, Alcyoniid
Systems,
Alcyoniid Feeding, Alcyoniid
Behavior, Alcyoniid Health,
Alcyoniid Propagation, Soft
Coral Propagation, Soft Coral Health, Dyed
Corals, Soft Coral Propagation,
Nephtheids, Dendronephthya,
Paralcyoniids, Nidaliids,
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Coral ID... Looks Like a Couple of Sinularia 01/02/08
Hi
there!
<Hi Jamie! Mich with you today!>
Happy New Year to you
all!!!
<Thank you and to you!>
Can you please identify these
two corals for me?
<I hope so!>
The first was sold as
'medusa' coral,
<The only coral that I've heard call a medusa
coral is Studeriotes and this does not appear to be it.>
which
doesn't narrow it down too much for me.
<Or me either! The
photo's a little blurry... but I think it's may be a Sinularia or
something in the Suborder Alcyoniina.>
The other came on a live
rock I bought.
<That is a cabbage leather (Sinularia dura).>
Both are doing really well in my tank and have both grown well since
I've had them.
<Very good! More for you here:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/alcyoniidsii.htm >
Many thanks for
your help. Jamie
<I am happy to assist. Mich> |  
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Soft Coral ID? Sinularia 12/31/2007
Hello,
<Hi Jeff, Mich here
apologizing for the delay.>
I bought this from my LFS and they said
it was from Palau (Spelling?) and that it is Green Finger or Tree Coral
(Sinularia sp).
<Looks like a Sinularia to me.>
It doesn't look
like any pictures of Sinularia flexibis I can find in that mine doesn't
have as many bumps on the branches and it doesn't look like any
Sinularia sp pictures I find.
<May be a factor of your lighting and
or your water flow...>
It has doubled in size to about 6in. tall
since I bought it a year ago.
<Well that sounds pretty good!>
Also, can I frag it by snipping pieces off and Super Gluing (gel) it to
rubble?
<You can frag it by cutting it and using a rubber band to
attach it to a piece of rubble. The rubber band will be much more
effective than the cyanoacrylate.>
Please see attached picture.
<I
see it!>
Thanks, Jeff
<Welcome, Mich> | 
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Coral I.D.... Lemnalia and Discosoma neglecta
<Greetings random
aquarist, Mich here.>
I searched for about an hour on various sites
and could not come up with any conclusive answers. I was hoping someone
there would be kind enough to identify the coral on the left side of
this pic I attached and the mushroom on the right. These two pieces were
given to me by a friend but he did not know what they are for sure. He
said the one was a colt coral.
<The coral on the left does not look
like a Cladiella to me. I suspect a Lemnalia or possibly a Sinularia, if
it is either and it starts to look like it's on it's way out you will
want to remove promptly from the tank as both can be toxic to tankmates.
The mushroom is a Discosoma, looks more like a neglecta to me but could
be a carlgreni.>
Regardless of what they are...they are looking quite
healthy and happy in my nano tank.
<Glad to hear.>
I was just
really itching to know exactly what type of species they are. I would
like to tell others who ask me about them correct information.
<Hope
this helps. Mich> |
A dyed Sinularia at that. |
Coral I.D.... Lemnalia and Discosoma neglecta... Inappropriate
Housing... Mixes 11/14/2007
Mitch,
<Hi there random
aquarist! Mich with you again.>
I must apologize...
<As must
I, for the delay... was trying to gather a little more info here
before responding.>
I ought to have told you more about the tank
this coral is in.
<Can be helpful.>
It is in my nano
tank...11 gallons,
<Yikes! Small!>
13 watts of fluorescents,
<Yikes! Dim!>
with a type of wet dry filtration using ceramics
instead of bio balls, a sponge, and carbon in the lighting hood.
<Yikes! Nitrates?>
As for the creatures in it I have the two
afore mentioned
<Yikes! Photosynthetic!>
along with 2 turbo
snails, 4 blue leg crabs, 1 fire fish goby, and 2 small hippocampus
erectus (black seahorses).
<Yikes! Crowded!>
I did some follow
up research on your suggestions and those particular corals require
more light and water movement then my tank creates.
<Yes you are
correct here. This is an incompatible mix. Your seahorses require
lower flow and lower temperature and really should be a larger tank
than this, 20 gallons at a minimum, 30 gallons would be better. The
corals need much more flow and warmer temps that the seahorses and
require significantly more light..>
Another piece of info that
might help is that my horses are able to hang on the coral in
question with no significant problems.
<Well most any of the
corals that this resembles are pretty noxious. I really know very
little about seahorses...Perhaps this is a function of the seahorse
and not the coral.>
So I am still wondering if it could possibly
be some type of finger leather.
<Sinularia are some of the most
noxious.>
The pic I sent you was in the middle of the
photoperiod. I will attach a photo of the whole tank and a close up
of the coral in question during the middle of the photoperiod.
<Colors just seem off...>
At night the specimen shrinks up into a
small stout version of itself sort a like a dead
pink tree.
<Shrinkage, is typical in both Sinularia and Lemnalia. But this
coral should not be this limp and floppy. Boy! That sounds bad… >
The gentleman at the LFS looked at the pic and suggested that it was
a type of color impregnated finger coral that was propagated in
captivity.
<I’m really have a hard time getting a good feel for
the colors, but brownish pink or even green or purple exist in
nature.>
I now defer to your expertise.
<Well, I certainly
wouldn’t call myself an expert, just a fellow hobbyist who enjoys
helping others.>
Any other thoughts or suggestions?
<Have
included above. A few more links you might find helpful here:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/tube-mfi.htm
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/seahorsecare.htm
A tremendous resource
here:
http://www.seahorse.org/
Hope you find some helpful,
Mich> |  .JPG)
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