Coral ID?

[rt456]

Hi All

Wife found some radom coral importer here in Perth has made friends with them and now keeps getting given things.

Unfortunately she hasn’t got a clue what they are and so is bringing them home for me to look after… this is not the first time once ended up with three ferrets and a hedgehog!!!

Any way she brought home three corals without knowing the name of them; so I’m left guessing about location and flow etc. Any ideas what they are? Pretty sure one is a torch the other two I have no idea? Waiting for a new lens to come for phone to get better pictures but any ideas? They seem to be happy.

 

[keepingfishwithnoidea]

one of thems obviosly a torch

 

[Kyan]

1st picture looks like galaxe
2nd torch
3rd alveopora

 

[rt456]

one of thems obviosly a torch

Yep figured that one

 

[rt456]

1st picture looks like galaxe
2nd torch
3rd alveopora

Awesome thanks! Might need to move the Alveopira to a lower flow area, see how it goes for a couple more days.

 

[keepingfishwithnoidea]

keep it where it is it seems good

 

[rt456]

keep it where it is it seems good

Awesome thanks for the help!

 

[thamnasteroid]

1. Goniopora
2. Euphyllia glabrescens
3. Alveopora

1st picture looks like galaxe
2nd torch
3rd alveopora

Not Galaxea; Galaxea are plocoid/phaceloid (note the dead corallites on bottom left of colony) and have their tentacles on top of their septa

 

[keepingfishwithnoidea]

thats not a goni, well it does not took like one

 

[thamnasteroid]

thats not a goni, well it does not took like one

polyps are just not fully extended. Look at the dead corallites on the bottom left; those are Goniopora corallites

 

[rt456]

polyps are just not fully extended. Look at the dead corallites on the bottom left; those are Goniopora corallites

Should it be opening/extending more? That seems to be about the maximum it has come out so far. Maybe needs moving its about mid height in the tank and in a moderate flow.

 

[thamnasteroid]

Should it be opening/extending more? That seems to be about the maximum it has come out so far. Maybe needs moving its about mid height in the tank and in a moderate flow.

Maybe, not necessarily; the polyps are fully out of their corallites, but the stalks haven't extended.

 

[rt456]

Maybe, not necessarily; the polyps are fully out of their corallites, but the stalks haven't extended.

Will watch it for a couple of days see how it goes

 

[thamnasteroid]

Will watch it for a couple of days see how it goes

possibly give it a bit more flow? I haven't really kept Goniopora before, so I don't know how to make their polyps extend