help with coral ID

[zaza]

I can't find any information on this coral. I noticed it likes a lot of light, but other than that I have no clue.
Thanks for any info

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[zaza]

Also this other little purlpe one, I found differnt names for it. Is it a fire coral


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[spongebob lover]

zaza welcome to RF dood !!
i hope you enjoy yourself here .
hmm to me it just looks like a bounch of lps skeletons from the picture .

I hope someone can give you a better answer.

 

[zaza]

zaza welcome to RF dood !!
i hope you enjoy yourself here .
hmm to me it just looks like a bounch of lps skeletons from the picture .

I hope someone can give you a better answer.

Thanks for welcoming me

The picture is a kind of bad, there are some skeletons there, but also something that looks like polyps I think, it's really pretty to see at a close range, and it glows under a blue light

 

[VHO Guy]

Looks like Blastomussa Merletti

 

[sryder]

or a trumpet coral

 

[Anthony Calfo]

first coral is a badly stressed Blastomussa merletti, the second coral is a non-stinging fire coral commonly ascribed to the genus Stylaster.

 

[zaza]

Thanks to all for the replies

For the second coral I was not sure btw the fire colar and the stylaster, I was hoping for the second one I found it on next to a sun coral I recently got, and after trying to ID it with pics on the internet I was worried it was a stinging fire coral :doubt: I haven't try to touch it yet, I am afraid it might hurt

As for the first picture, it seems to me that the coral likes high light rather than low light even if, according to some reading I did, it should be placed in a low light. I will post pics of the blastomussa in the next few week to have some feedback on the status of the coral

 

[zaza]

A month later...

How does it look after one month?

 

[Anthony Calfo]

there seems to be a marked increase in pigmentation... keep up the good work!

 

[spongebob lover]

wwoouu zaza, they're turning out very pretty

 

[zaza]

Blasto update

I can't believe how well this coral is growing!!
When I looked at the first picture on the beginning of the thread and then at this latest one I am so thrilled to see the changes that occurred in little over 3 months!!

However, I noticed something growing, almost in the center of one of the skeletons. It has 2 long transparent tentacles that are used to grab food I guess...it also seems to attract pieces of hard material (usually sand grains) to build a sort of structure to hide. Any clue of what is it? In the picture shown it can be noticed by the little white sand grain which are visible in the middle-right part on top of the coral.

Thanks all

 

[Anthony Calfo]

twin tentacles sounds like a spionid worm.