ID Help: Bought Tank From Craigslist

[JustinFromAL]

Hey folks, I'm about 3 months into this adventure and I'm starting to learn the ins and outs of reef keeping. I'm to the point now that I'd like to know a little more about the corals I have and how to get them the best flow/light/feeding. I'm sure some of these are very common, but my inexperience at describing them means my google searches haven't been helpful. Hopefully this will help a few other newbs like myself who need basic ID's as well!

I purchased the tank off Craig's List, fully setup, so I don't know a lot of what I have. I've put my description/guesses where I can and can provide more info/pictures if it helps. I apologize if these aren't the best pictures, I just have a crappy little point and shoot.

Thanks in advance for your help!

1. This is an anemone my clownfish are hosting. It's tentacles are about 2 or 3 inches long and occasionally will "bubble up" a bit as you can see in the left side..



2. This is a small piece, about dime size. It's a transparent brown/reddish color with light green tips.



3. This is a larger piece, about golf ball sized. It's got a dark green body with opaque purplish tips.



4. This has 5 or 6 small polyps and is growing. It's pink at the base with a pale green on the 5 pointed "star". It alos glows bright green under actinic only lighting.

5. These is three small round polyps. Some type of Zoanthid I think, any more info would be appreciated, but I think it's going to get covered up by the Xenia anyway.

6. This is Xenia of some type, if you have a more specific name that would be great. It waves around in the current but doesn't "snap" on it's own like I've seen with some Xenia.



7. This is a nickel sized mushroom, reddish brown in color with blue/purple specks. I have these randomly around the tank. Any more specific name would be great!

8. These mushrooms(?) are about quarter sized are purple with streaks of blue.



9. This is a very large mushroom shaped piece. It's stalk is about 2 inches and the top is about the diamater of a baseball. It's stalk is offwhite, the head is slightly reddish with small 1/4" protrusions that extend and wave around with the current. If touched the protrusions will retract immediately.



10. These are a bunch of small polyps that are pink when retracted and about dime sized 5 sided and green when out. They wave around in the current. I think they're "green metallic star polyps" but I would love a confirmation.



Thanks again for time and help, you guys rock!

[Valeria]

1. BTA Bubble Tip Anemone
2. Torch coral
3. Torch coral
4. GSP Green Star Polyp
5. Rock polyps
6. Anthelia
7 &8 Mushrooms
9. Toad stool leather
10 Green star polyp

[bucksfan1976]

Originally Posted by valeria

1. Bta bubble tip anemone
2. Torch coral
3. Torch coral
4. Gsp green star polyp
5. Rock polyps
6. Anthelia
7 &8 mushrooms
9. Toad stool leather
10 green star polyp

+1

[tmerf11]

I thought #3 looked like a Frogspawn, but I'm no authority on coral...

[Valeria]

Originally Posted by tmerf11

I thought #3 looked like a Frogspawn, but I'm no authority on coral...

same but it did not seem to have enough tips per tentacle in the front, now the tentacles in the back do have multiple tips.
no authority here just my opinion

[JustinFromAL]

Thanks guys!

tmerf11, I checked out some pictures for frogspawn and I think you're right!

Also, as far as the Mushrooms/GSP's go, are there specific names or do a lot of similar looking/behaving corals get lumped into the same name like that?

[ariel47]

#1 long tenacle anemone with pecula clown, #2 and 3 hammer coral #4 and 5 and 6 zoa family and pulsing xenia #7 and 8 mushroom and blue stripe mushroom #9 toadstool #10 greenstar polpys. hope that helps.

[ariel47]

just guessing on some, agree with #4 possilly being anthella