Coral ID.

[MamaLovesHerReefTank]

Hoping someone can help me out with identifying these corals. They were given to us by a friend. He told us the names of a few but when I search them, the pictures are much different than what I have in my tank.
First pic : Hammer Coral?
2nd pic: Torch?
3rd pic: Frogspawn?
4th pic: ???
5th pic: ???
6th pic: ???
7th pic: ???
8th pic: ???
9th pic: Torch?

I am posting these pics so I properly care for these corals. There are 3 that are not growing at all and seem to be slowly dieing. Help please.

 

[stevo01]

1st frammer
2nd torch
3rd frogspawn
4rth ricordea yumma
5th grandis pally
6th pink Xenia
7th green implosion palythoa
8th grape coral or short tentacle torch

Spot feeding is a must IMO. Be on top of your parameters and use some quality reef salt. These guys build big coralite structures and need advanced salts. Also be aware of some inverts like to eat these.

 

[Animagus]

1. Hammer
2. Torch
3. Frogspwan
4. Ricordea yuma
5. Protopalythoas
6. Xenia
7. Zoanthids (not sure about the skeleton on the left though)
8. Hammer
9. Torch

 

[stevo01]

The mushroom doesn't need to be spot fed nor does the Xenia. Keep the Xenia by itself on its own island unless you want it to grow on everything. It's like a weed but pretty looking. I personally don't keep it, due to its invasiveness.

I have a colony of Pallythoa, green implosion is one that eats small pieces of meat but pally don't need to be spot fed to thrive.

 

[Pruett-nc]

Like the ones in my avatar my paly's are like Venus fly traps . They love meat lol .

 

[stevo01]

9 is the same as 2. It's a Glabrescens. The grape 8 is Cristata. 1 could be a regular hammer but I think it's a hybrid frammer due to the tentacle branching.

 

[stevo01]

Like the ones in my avatar my paly's are like Venus fly traps . They love meat lol .

Also green implosion :) we love how hungry they get.

 

[stevo01]

Nevertheless less it's a really cool line up of Euphyllia I would love to have. I have a few of them. Good luck friend!

 

[MamaLovesHerReefTank]

Thank you everyone for your quick replies. Now I can get to work on proper placement, feedings etc. You guys are awesome.

 

[stevo01]

Look at the mouths on your euphyllia's. Grape coral have these small round mouths. They would probably love cyclopeeze or some reef snow of some sort, where as you can tong feed mysis or minced up shrimp to Glabrescens. Their mouths are munch longer/larger.

Keep them in direct light but specific par I'm not sure. Good flow but not direct.

 

[stevo01]

I do not recommend keeping camel or peppermint shrimp with Euphyllia. Cleaner shrimp should be fine, but not if you want sexy shrimp. Sexy will eat a hosting Euphyllia but not if you keep the sexy fed. Bumble bee shrimp are ok but also not if you have a cleaner. I've researched Euphyllia's can get sick and pass it to others of the same genus. Called brown jelly disease.

Sorry for the post bombing, I just keep think of more stuff to add.

 

[MamaLovesHerReefTank]

I do not recommend keeping camel or peppermint shrimp with Euphyllia. Cleaner shrimp should be fine, but not if you want sexy shrimp. Sexy will eat a hosting Euphyllia but not if you keep the sexy feed. I've researched Euphyllia's can get sick and pass it to others of the same genus. Called brown jelly disease.

Sorry for the post bombing, I just keep think of more stuff to add.

Keep adding. The more I learn, the better my tank.

 

[stevo01]

#8 the cristata, looks rough. Possible starvation or bad parameters, but might have just been walked on by a hermit too. Just in question by the picture. I think all of the other corals look to be doing well. They may be smaller until they fully adjust to your tank. The euphyllia's are aggressive, so is the yumma. You also have some GSP growing below #9.

What do you have for inverts and fish?
How old is your tank?
What does your ammonia, nitrates, calcium, ph, salinity, temp read ?
What salt mix are you using?
What food are you using?

My guess...Start spot feeding Euphyllia by tong or syringe. Frozen Mysis and/or Cyclopeeze. You could also opt for pellets, reef chilli, brightwell, or other foods on the market. Currently, I use frozen mysis, frozen cyclop, with a few drops of vita chem mixed in a cup of rodi water. I also soak and rinse in selco. I broadcast feed the entire tank with this mix. Then spot feed the corals that need regular feeding. Save some money and replace mysis with raw shrimp from the food store. Cost $2 a 1/4lb. Process it with the cyclop, and vitamins in rodi water. Don't put selco straight into the tank. Soak food and lightly rinse, then add vita chem and rodi water, process, freeze. Flat in ziplock bags 1/8"-1/4" thick, then cut into feeding size cubes. :)

 

[MamaLovesHerReefTank]

#8 the cristata, looks rough. Possible starvation or bad parameters, but might have just been walked on by a hermit too. Just in question by the picture. I think all of the other corals look to be doing well. They may be smaller until they fully adjust to your tank. The euphyllia's are aggressive, so is the yumma. You also have some GSP growing below #9.

What do you have for inverts and fish?
How old is your tank?
What does your ammonia, nitrates, calcium, ph, salinity, temp read ?
What salt mix are you using?
What food are you using?

My guess...Start spot feeding Euphyllia by tong or syringe. Frozen Mysis and/or Cyclopeeze. You could also opt for pellets, reef chilli, brightwell, or other foods on the market. Currently, I use frozen mysis, frozen cyclop, with a few drops of vita chem mixed in a cup of rodi water. I also soak and rinse in selco. I broadcast feed the entire tank with this mix. Then spot feed the corals that need regular feeding. Save some money and replace mysis with raw shrimp from the food store. Cost $2 a 1/4lb. Process it with the cyclop, and vitamins in rodi water. Don't put selco straight into the tank. Soak food and lightly rinse, then add vita chem and rodi water, process, freeze. Flat in ziplock bags 1/8"-1/4" thick, then cut into feeding size cubes. :)

Fish: Yellow tang, hippo tang, sailfin tang, 3 chromis, cleaner wrasse, 2 clowns, 2 sandsifting diamond gobies, pygmy angel, 3 cleaner shrimp, 1 emerald crab, numerous hermit crabs and snails.
Tank is almost a year old. Transferred 2 year old 55 g into the 125 g.
ammonia - 0
nitrates - 0
ph - 8.2
salinity 1.23
temp - 78.3
I don't have a reading for calcium as I don't have the test for it as yet.
salt - Instant Ocean Reef Crystals
food - We change daily - Frozen Brine, NorthFin Veggie Pellets, New Life Spectrum Pellets + Garlic, Nutrafin Flake. I put seaweed on a clip 2 times a week. I add zooplankton or phytoplankton every 3rd day.

 

[stevo01]

Fish: Yellow tang, hippo tang, sailfin tang, 3 chromis, cleaner wrasse, 2 clowns, 2 sandsifting diamond gobies, pygmy angel, 3 cleaner shrimp, 1 emerald crab, numerous hermit crabs and snails.
Tank is almost a year old. Transferred 2 year old 55 g into the 125 g.
ammonia - 0
nitrates - 0
ph - 8.2
salinity 1.23
temp - 78.3
I don't have a reading for calcium as I don't have the test for it as yet.
salt - Instant Ocean Reef Crystals
food - We change daily - Frozen Brine, NorthFin Veggie Pellets, New Life Spectrum Pellets + Garlic, Nutrafin Flake. I put seaweed on a clip 2 times a week. I add zooplankton or phytoplankton every 3rd day.

I think salinity is a little low 1.025-1.026 is prime. Just my .02, Reef crystals alone won't be enough for all that LPS. I would switch up to RSCP at this point while maintaining constant 1.025 best as possible. As well as spot feed the coral at least once a week using a kents feeder. All of those fish are too much competition to effectively broadcast feed the coral. I like your fish list a lot! I wish I had a tank large enough for tangs.