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05/21/2012, 11:30 PM
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Coral ID, please...Blue Star Polyps???
I spotted this rock at a tank I was maintaning today with what appears to be 3 species of blue polyps. It was sold from the LFS as blue star polyps, but I've never seen them here locally. Any ID's?
   Thanks for looking...
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05/21/2012, 11:49 PM
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I've heard of green star polyps (gsp but never heard of blue star polyps.
They look like either blue clove polyps, or a goniopora flower pot coral.
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05/22/2012, 12:09 AM
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They are super tiny. Here's a FTS of the 100 gallon they're in. Bottom left corner.
  
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As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. -Jack Handey Current Tank Info: 38, 70 and 90 gallon reefs. macro dominated nano coming soon... |
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05/22/2012, 12:14 AM
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Hmm, tiny blue ones sounds like blue clavularia
tell me, does yours look like this up close? http://www.google.com/search?q=blue+...&client=safari Or more like blue anthelia? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...SYhuNFkg&mvs=0 Or more like these green star polyps? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...OCbhk96g&mvs=0
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05/22/2012, 12:20 AM
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To me they don't look as snowflakeish/feathery like the ones in the pics
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As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. -Jack Handey Current Tank Info: 38, 70 and 90 gallon reefs. macro dominated nano coming soon... |
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05/22/2012, 12:20 AM
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They are called sympodium, there are many different colors ranging from a very green to either a bluish or a brown. I was told they are Jims of slow growers but mine have doubled in a couple months time. LA has them all the time,but they are expensive. I picked up a 2" colony from an lfs for $10.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...82&pcatid=3082
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05/22/2012, 12:27 AM
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I've heard of green star polyps
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