Is there a difference between...

[roadster3043]

... a Colt Coral and a Tree Coral?

What are their eating habits?

Their scientific names?

Where can I find pictures of them to see the difference?


TIA

[Hara]

The colt coral is the big pinkish coral on the right, the green tree coral is a little to the left, directly above the fish.

The corals eat the leftover fish mush food in the water, I do not feed supplemental coral food.

Sorry about the fuzzy picture.
I am sure someone here probably has better. Colts are very fast growers and pretty tolerant of different lighting conditions.

[roadster3043]

Thanks Hara for your promp reply.

The coral almost looks like this one http://www.pvas.com/photos/alcyonium-sp.jpg.

[reefrunner69]

alcyonium = colt
nepthea = tree

They will feed mostly on zooplankton and some phytoplankton. They also get plenty from the light.

[reefrunner69]

The coral almost looks like this one http://www.pvas.com/photos/alcyonium-sp.jpg.

The coral in that pic is a colt coral.

Here is a pic of one I used to have....


Same coral about a year and a dozen fraggins later (to the right of my daughter behind the bubble coral)

[roadster3043]

Thanks Kevin.

I was told by the LFS that they reproduce rather quickly.

[roadster3043]

Greetings.

Finally I took a pic of the coral, to see if you can tell me more info about it.

TIA

[reefrunner69]

Looks like a nethea tree to me.

[d9hp]

MAN! Kevin your tank was awesome. Any reasons for downsizing so much?