Help me make a coral indentity please! (1 Viewer)

[MarkieB]

I know a better pic would help but this is the best I can get.
http://groups.msn.com/EricandMark/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=49

http://groups.msn.com/EricandMark/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=50

I have never seen a coral like the frag I purchased which is why it caught my attention.

It grows about an in tall. It is a trumpet shaped body. Pointy towards the bottom and enarges in a cone shape upward. It looks like a flower. It has hard tan coloered parts in the center, with neon green tenticles around the top edge. It can use these as sweepers when it wants to but they stay mainly close to the rim. It's 1 inch body is calcium based and white. It is starting to grow and seems the growth is gowing to be spreading on the rock rather than upwards or branching. I dont expect it to get any taller that an inch. I looked in Eric's book and have not found anything I can compare it to.

Have any ideas what I can reseearch on?

 

[ChrisB]

Your pic is hard to see, does it look like these:

http://www.maast.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=9205

 

[MarkieB]

I know the pictures stink. AS I mentioned it's the best I can get. I need someone to teach me how some of you are getting unbelievable pictures.

Good try but those are not what I have. These are much smaller than candy coral and the shell is really a v shape. Perfectly v on each one. Straight and not branching. Maybe I can ready up on my camera a try again.

It's more like a zoo living inside a trumpet cacium base.