Mushroom id

[RJ Harris]

Curious as to what kind they were had one on the rock when I got it but now there spreading and there cool

 

[cloak]

Those turquoise ones are Discosomas I believe. The multicolored one is a Palythoa grandi and the yellow one is just a Yellow polyp.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2002/10/inverts

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2003/2/inverts

 

[RJ Harris]

Thanks. I knew what the other ones were as I bought the giant paly at frag swap and the yellow polyps float around the tank. Are the mushrooms worth anything?

 

[RJ Harris]

Just looked it up. Discosomas is just a general word for mushroom

 

[cloak]

A certain type of mushroom though.

 

[rock_lobster]

They are extremely common in the hobby there is no "brand name" for those

 

[RJ Harris]

Kinda figured. Still cool though. Although I've never seen them at my lfs just rhodactis hairy shrooms richordea and the common blue and orange shrooms

 

[rock_lobster]

you could try checking some of the large online vendors like saltwater.com, live aquaria, petco.. They have large colonies of those so you could figure your comparable pricing on them but keep in mind you would be charging significantly less as those stores all have employees and lots of overhead factored into their costs.

 

[Mr. Bill]

Just looked it up. Discosomas is just a general word for mushroom

The genus Discosoma has recently been changed to Actinodiscus.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=597+598+666&pcatid=666

 

[Euglav]

I had those same blue shrooms, they were nice but they started taking over my tank, looked nice but started covering and killing other corals