Please help me with Coral ID.....

[cdeakle]

I picked up these 4 corals at my local store and was comparing some pictures online with the names that the store gave me and they didnt all seem to be obvious matches. Can you please help?

I will attach the pics with the names I was given. Please tell me if the names are right and what "family" of corals there from. THANKS!

 

[cdeakle]

They state to place ID questions in here but no one replies..hmmmmm

 

[Trevah]

not sure about the 1st pic but the 2nd is definitely hairy mushroom and 3rd looks like leather to me

 

[Anonymous]

1. Frogspawn / Euphyllia divisa

2. Mushrooms/Corallimorph - no idea maybe Discosoma species

3. Toadstool Leather/ Sarcophyton

 

[cdeakle]

Next to the frogspawn is a coral frag that was given to me, anyone know what it is?

Thankd for the ingo guys!!

 

[Anonymous]

Post a close up of it, it's to small to properly id.

 

[cdeakle]

Yes sir!, will do. Will be up within 24 hours....

 

[forepaughs]

The frag looks similar to Montipora Digitata, a type of SPS coral (SPS=small polyped stony). Have you seen the polyps extend (usually after the bright lights go out if using MH bulbs)?

 

[Anonymous]

Thats what I was thinking, a monti digita, but the pics not good enough for me to tell.

 

[cdeakle]

I will try and post better pics tonight when I get home.

I havent seen the polyps extend. They have whitish tips. For the most part I havent seen this guy move or do anything at all.

If I remember correctly the frag has light colored dots all over it in addition to the white tips.

QUESTION?

One of my emerald carabs is EATING my mushroom corals. WHAT SHOULD I DO? I don't know if some of the shrooms are dying and then he is eating them or if he is killing/eating them? Anyone had this problem before?

 

[forepaughs]

With the white tips, it sounds like perhaps porites or some other acropora type coral as my montipora is purple but never shopws white tips. And if it moves, it is definitely neither.

Will look for the pic tomorrow.

 

[cdeakle]

Hope this pic is good enough....

 

[Anonymous]

Good show, nice shot. I do belive its a monti. Digita.

 

[cdeakle]

Thanks Gresh!

I will look for pics online and see if I can get a good match! THANK YOU for the help.....