Coral ID help please...

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Awe, thanks!...:D But wait, come baaaaack Anthony.
You forgot to give me your opinion on what type of coral this might be.
With your background, I value your opinions greatly! :)
 
spongebob lover said:
LOL!!! yeah dood you need to speed up on the typing to catch Anthony :D .
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Yeah, you guy’s have that right! :lol: (Don’t worry Gab’s, it’s just a figure of speech. I know you’re a girl... ya got one in the oven... yatta, yatta, yatta...;))
I am absolutely terrible at typing and I read pretty slowly too.
I even read certain things over and over again just to get it to sink into my head.
Too many fried brain cells I guess...:rolleyes: :p
 
charlesr1958 said:
I have some great links as well as a coral genus photo guide I put together. Hopefully it is of some use to you.

CORALS

CORAL GENUS PHOTO ID GUIDE

Chuck
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Oh wow! Thanks for the link, Chuck!
I just glanced through it real quick but I’ll definitely be going back to it to soak up all the info I can.
Nice looking site, BTW!
 
Yeah, you guy’s have that right! (Don’t worry Gab’s, it’s just a figure of speech. I know you’re a girl... ya got one in the oven... yatta, yatta, yatta...)
I am absolutely terrible at typing and I read pretty slowly too.
I even read certain things over and over again just to get it to sink into my head.
Too many fried brain cells I guess...
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LMBO!!! :lol: .
you're not the only one, i can't keep up at chat night and i have to read it twice just so i can understand what we're talking about too :p:) .
 
spongebob lover said:
LMBO!!! :lol: .
you're not the only one, i can't keep up at chat night and i have to read it twice just so i can understand what we're talking about too :p:) .
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I give you credit, Gab’s. I’m too chicken to even think about trying to enter a chat session! I’d be left in the dust! ;) :lol:
 
without trying to pass the buck, I must say and we must all realize/accept that IDs from pics are so grossly unreliable that they amount to little more than pot shots/guesses. This pic has no full frame close up even of polyps, no exposed corallites, etc. It could be a member of several families... more than a few genera and no one will be able to say species at all here.

Pic IDs suck, my friend. That is my professional opinion ;)
 
I respect your honest answer and agree, Anthony. :)
Thank you for taking the time to view it once more.
At least for now until I learn more about how to ID a coral better, I can blame it on the camera. he he :D
 
no worries Rob :)

And to play devil's advocate... or at least put myself in your position, when you have the coral on hand, you can at least sacrifice part of the animal to expose some of the corallum and compare that to known structures from plates, images, etc in taxonomic references. If it really interests you to ID this coral, it would not be so great of an effort or sacrifice, and you may well be able to narrow it down as far as genus. FWIW :)

kindly, Anthony
 
There are some areas on the coral where part of the skeleton is exposed but maybe slightly eroded. (See, here I go... I still don’t quite know the terminology yet. :rolleyes: ) Could this be enough to get me close to narrowing it down to at least a genus? Or does it have to be freshly exposed skeleton? Are corallites usually different between genuses?
 
the erosion will likely kill any hope for ID. Many rely on comparisons of the septal teeth (degree, presence or other).

I really think you need to not worry so much about the ID of this coral my friend ;) If it dies, bleach the corallum and then lets talk. Until then just enjoy it living and anonymous :D
 
Anthony Calfo said:
Until then just enjoy it living and anonymous :D
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Oh I very much agree with that statement!
It's just that curiosity gets the better of me sometimes. :D
Thanks again for your time! :)
 
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well since we might never find out what you got, how about this for a name

coralus anonymous :D just to sound fancy or if you wanna go kewl you can always call it .... dried lips or pupet on the roof :D .
 
spongebob lover said:
or if you wanna go kewl you can always call it .... dried lips or pupet on the roof :D .
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Lol :lol: Where do you come up with these names Gaby?
But I like “Coralus Anonymous” and with your permission Gaby, I’ll use it for the time being and also state that it’s from the genus “Damifino”. :lol: :p :D
 
Lol Where do you come up with these names Gaby?
But I like “Coralus Anonymous” and with your permission Gaby, I’ll use it for the time being and also state that it’s from the genus “Damifino”.
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LOL!! Well with a little bit of imagination and gabsterness you can always come up with things :p .
Yeah i think the name sounds kewl and because it sounds fancy once you frag it, you can sell it up to 100 dollars ;) :D :lol: .
I think the name is very sticky
Coralus Anonymous a.k.a. Damifino or Dami :D .
 
I agree fully about trying to ID a coral by a photo, it is as stated, all but impossible, the coral genus photo ID link I put together is meant only to narrow down such a search to the least amount of possibilities, from there, then coral skeletal details will be needed to have any hope of getting species specific. As an example, I for the longest time thought I had an Echinophyllia species, but with much needed help in learning how to do coral exams from Eric Borneman, the coral in question turned out to be an Acanthastrea rotundoflora, it is linked because I have a page showing the details of its skeletal features as an example of what it takes to such exams.

Chuck
 
Thanks for taking the time to reply and explain that to me, Chuck. Your link helped me to understand your point! It really isn’t all that important to me to know exactly what this coral is. Especially to the extreme of where I would have to frag a living portion of it just to find out. Those types of rigorous identification processes that you and Anthony have explained to me are definitely above and beyond my intelligence and scope of reef aquarium keeping. I’ll leave that kind of stuff to real scientists and the like rather than me trying my own backyard experiments on a specimen when I really don’t know what the h@#$ I’m doing.
I started this thread fully aware that I more than likely wouldn’t get a positive ID of this coral but I figured I’d take the chance that maybe Anthony or other people who have seen more different types of corals than I have or may possibly have the same thing in their own aquarium could give me an idea of what I might have. We all like to know what we have in our tanks especially when it comes to finding out how we can provide our treasures with an environment that resembles as closely as possible to what they were originally accustomed to. I don’t regret starting this thread either because I’ve learned quite a few things here that I never really had an interest in. One major thing is I’ll try to take better pictures before I try this again! :D
As a side note and sort of an update; this coral seems to be doing very well so far. I have it placed off the substrate in a semi shaded area where it receives a mild current flowing across the top of it. It’s beginning to spread new growth over some of the old exposed skeleton and today I noticed tentacles protruding from it while I was cleaning the inside walls of the tank. A feeding reaction I would imagine.

Thanks again everyone for your help! :)
 
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