For as long as I've been on this board, I've always wondered why people needed so much help IDing corals. Whenever I'd buy them, the name was written right there on the tank so I knew exactly what I was getting. Then I started finding the $15 racks full of unlabeled frags...now I need help.
We'll start with an easy one. These, I believe, are acans, right?
Not sure about this one. It does send out sweepers at night.
This one kinda looks like a cyphastrea, but the polyps are really tiny. The surface is really smooth (looking) and light blue with light pink dots. I really like it, I'm just not sure it's a cyphastrea. It is encrusting, or at least growing over the plug.
This one (the next two pics are the same frag), I don't even know where to start. Again, kinda looks like a cyphastrea, but until I took the pictures, I hadn't looked at it that closely yet. I hadn't noticed all the ridges in it until I had my camera zoomed in on it. Also, the "polyps" are gold.
Lastly, not a coral, but what kind of sponges are these? When they first showed up all over the bottom of the frag rack, I assumed they were snail eggs. But that doesn't appear to be the case now that I can see them better on the rock.
Here's some additional pictures if anyone wants to see them (or look through an imgur album if it's easier).
One of the things I've learned is that I can buy these unknown cheap frags and if I lose one here or there it's not that big of a deal. It's nice being able to pick something for no reason other than I like how it looks in the LFS and not spend half a day wondering if I'll be able to keep a $100 or $200 coral alive.
We'll start with an easy one. These, I believe, are acans, right?
Not sure about this one. It does send out sweepers at night.
This one kinda looks like a cyphastrea, but the polyps are really tiny. The surface is really smooth (looking) and light blue with light pink dots. I really like it, I'm just not sure it's a cyphastrea. It is encrusting, or at least growing over the plug.
This one (the next two pics are the same frag), I don't even know where to start. Again, kinda looks like a cyphastrea, but until I took the pictures, I hadn't looked at it that closely yet. I hadn't noticed all the ridges in it until I had my camera zoomed in on it. Also, the "polyps" are gold.
Lastly, not a coral, but what kind of sponges are these? When they first showed up all over the bottom of the frag rack, I assumed they were snail eggs. But that doesn't appear to be the case now that I can see them better on the rock.
Here's some additional pictures if anyone wants to see them (or look through an imgur album if it's easier).
One of the things I've learned is that I can buy these unknown cheap frags and if I lose one here or there it's not that big of a deal. It's nice being able to pick something for no reason other than I like how it looks in the LFS and not spend half a day wondering if I'll be able to keep a $100 or $200 coral alive.