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[Erikk]

Hello everyone! New here

Does anyone happen to know this coral? Was told it was a bubble coral from LFS.. Any care tips? Thank you !

 

[Pryzz]

From what I can tell it looks like a bleached bubble coral.

 

[Beau_123]

From what I can tell it looks like a bleached bubble coral.

+1 on the bleached bubble coral

 

[Terrance]

I think its the wall variety, not a branching one.

 

[Erikk]

Thanks for the input everyone. It's a surprise you all have said its bleached. I thought the same and even came back and asked their "reef expert" and he said its definitely not bleached. Any chance these can be white?

 

[mr_X]

Bubble corals can come white. I'm not convinced it's a bubble coral though. The skeleton is flat and a square piece was fragged from the parent colony and then glued to a plug. If it was a bubble coral you would have to cut more skeleton than what was cut here, since the flesh goes deeper than a 1/2" or so. Can you take a few more pictures?

 

[Erikk]

Sure! Here ya go:

 

[Erikk]

I forgot to add that before it became "inflated" there were a few mouth looking things. Not sure if that helps.

Cheers!

 

[Gregcoyote]

I think it may be a tunicate.

 

[mr_X]

I'm still not sure what it is, but I'm voting NO to bubble coral. We'll have to see what it turns into.

 

[Gregcoyote]

I'm still not sure what it is, but I'm voting NO to bubble coral. We'll have to see what it turns into.

Agreed, bubble coral doesn't present a mouth at the end of the polyp (or bubble).

 

[Erikk]

I found this on Liveaquaria..
The whiter one looks a bit similar..

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=597+321+449&pcatid=449

 

[mr_X]

Not according to your pictures. see the skeletons under these corals in the LA picture? they are considerable. The corals would soon die if you sawed off all but a 1/4" of that skeleton.

 

[Gregcoyote]

I think you have a white tunicate. Something like;


http://aquarium-fish.liveaquaria.com/search?w=Tunicate

If so, it's a filter feeder. But there's a mouth on the end of each polyp. If there is no mouth I think we're back to a regular white bubble coral.

 

[Erikk]

Update: I was moving a new coral around this morning (and also avoiding my territorial clownfish ) and the coral in question kind of expanded. Maybe this picture could help more! Could this have been agitation from the flow being messed up?usualy is just shrinks to its skeleton.. Thanks!

Erikk