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Embowe
11-06-2007, 09:40 AM
Here are a few pics of the new green torch (I think its Euphyllia glabrescens) that I bought out of the corner display tank at ILC...4 heads for a price I couldnt pass up..
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g312/embowe/Fishtank/TorchCoral009.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g312/embowe/Fishtank/TorchCoral006.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g312/embowe/Fishtank/TorchCoral004.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g312/embowe/Fishtank/TorchCoral003.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g312/embowe/Fishtank/TorchCoral001.jpg
Subliminal
11-06-2007, 09:45 AM
Looks like frogspawn!

Very purdy!
Embowe
11-06-2007, 09:52 AM
I thought the same thing...Im still trying to get a 100% ID on it...everything that I have seen points to it being braching frogspawn...and my clown is starting to take intrest in it:)
Brian
11-06-2007, 09:05 PM
Doesn't look like a Torch...I'll second (or third) the frogspawn ID.

Very nice though!
Hawkeye
11-06-2007, 09:52 PM
another vote for it appearing to be frogspawn...it's really nice though!
MikeNapoli
11-06-2007, 11:00 PM
A different type of frogspawn ... Grape Coral -- Euphyllia Cristata (maybe) in the Marine Inverts book by Ronald L. Shimek
Phyl
11-06-2007, 11:01 PM
Hmm. Looks more like a torch to me except thicker. I have one that looks a lot like that. Why would you say frog?
RichT
11-06-2007, 11:24 PM
I didn't think torch had multiple tips on a tentacle.
Brian
11-07-2007, 07:44 AM
My torch had longer, singular tentacles...almost looked like an anemone.
Subliminal
11-07-2007, 08:30 AM
I didn't think torch had multiple tips on a tentacle.


That's why I said it, too!
Phyl
11-07-2007, 09:19 AM
Yeah, I'll give ya that. It does look like most of them are single headed frons... which is also unusual for Frogs. Pretty though!
MikeNapoli
11-07-2007, 09:39 AM
A different type of frogspawn ... Grape Coral -- Euphyllia Cristata (maybe) in the Marine Inverts book by Ronald L. Shimek


Anyone?
Phyl
11-07-2007, 09:47 AM
I could only find one web-based photo of that, Mike. It didn't look like the one pictured above. Any web photos?
Embowe
11-07-2007, 11:10 AM
Whatever it is...my single clown seems to be taking a liking to it...has been hovering over it all day now and once and a while swims through it.... ;D
AqOb
11-07-2007, 12:09 PM
We get that in regularly and is usually sold under the name octopus coral. I have even seen it listed that way on availability reports direct from collection stations. Most of the time I just refer to it as Euphyllia so as to not mis name it.
MikeNapoli
11-07-2007, 02:56 PM
Sorry I can't find an internet picture. All the ones i find are 100x60 resolution and way too small to even look at.

Will, look at page 175 in the Marine Inverts book. By Ronald L. Shimek, Ph.D.

I thought everyone had this book.
mladencovic
11-07-2007, 03:12 PM
A different type of frogspawn ... Grape Coral -- Euphyllia Cristata (maybe) in the Marine Inverts book by Ronald L. Shimek


Anyone?


It is a Frogspawn. From the picture it is not clear if it is branching (paradivisa):
http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/401-500/Species%20pages/499.htm
or non-branching (divisa):
http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/101-200/Species%20pages/147.htm

Definitively not cristata :
http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/101-200/Species%20pages/146.htm
nor torch
glabrescens: http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/101-200/Species%
20pages/148.htm
or paraglabrescens : http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/801-900/Species%20pages/870.htm