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[mathewkofalk]

These two I have no idea.
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[Cherub]

first one looks like a dying fungia

 

[ReefCheif]

First one i have no idea, looks like a dying plate coral to me. second one is a paly, looks similiar to a pink and gold, but Im probably wrong

 

[mathewkofalk]

The first one has grown like crazy I got small chunks of this from some frag rack and this piece has really done well

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[mathewkofalk]

Cool after a little reading it is a fungia or what ever .....I can't wait to see what it grows up to be lol.. also the zoa is more yellow and blue to my eye I know the cell phone pics suck

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[mathewkofalk]

Oh and maybe what you two see as dying is just the frag disc i glued it to but idk.

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[ReefCheif]

If its a fungia you probably should not have glues it down, I think they like to move, I could be completly wrong as I dont keep them, but I vaugly remember hearing this

 

[mathewkofalk]

hmm well it was encrusting on to some egg crate and when i cut the crate it broke into flakes this is some of the flakes just glued down now they formed into one and keep growing maybe when its larger I can figure some way to remove frag disc. Hopefully I can save this I would be really bummed if I screwed it up.

 

[ReefCheif]

It doesnt sound like fungia to me, does it have a mouth? The best way I can describe a fungia is an enemone type animal with a hard skeletal bottom, the tenticles pertrude fomr this hard skeletal body and there is a mouth in the middle

 

[mathewkofalk]

No mouth that I can see

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[Smiley]

Tongue coral...

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[ReefCheif]

No mouth that I can see

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Its not a fungia than I dont think, I agree with Fred on the possibility of a tounge coral

 

[jgonzz]

Pavona

 

[mathewkofalk]

jgonzz wins markings on skeleton look like what I saw listed as a cactus coral but yeah it came up with pavona. Now ......how to get this guy to grow upwards.

 

[Smiley]

ive never seen a pavona look like this....and looking through all the pavona species, i dont see one even close.... curious to know why you think it may be a pavona...following along.

here is a link to pavona cactus: http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0289

 

[mathewkofalk]

Part of the problem was the way it chipped off the frag rack I'm very curious now too. I really want to see what this thing turns into I'm gonna try to find mor pieces of it and make another frag! But yeah I looked at close ups of the skeletal structure and its red with white veins running in it just like some of the pictures I saw.

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[mathewkofalk]

Also isn't tongue coral same thing as fungia?

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[Smiley]

close but not the same....they grow in same areas but from what i understand, fungia grow is a circular pattern and are able to split themselves where as the polyphyllia grows oblong and is not able to split itself...