Has anyone seem this before

[ScarBosh]

I'm not exactly sure what coral species this is. Does any one have an idea?

 

[gumbii]

um... balanophylia..?

 

[thedevilscandy]

It kinda looks like strawberry coral. Whatever it is it's really pretty

 

[thedevilscandy]

Actually, I think what I'm talking about is actually strawberry anemone, not coral.

 

[gumbii]

strawberry anemone are coldwater... they would just die in our systems...


it's not a dendro, and it's not a rhizo... so it's a balano...

 

[thedevilscandy]

I know they're cold water. Still looks pretty close to it though. I've wanted to set up a cold water tank for a while now every since I saw them at the Long Beach Aquarium. They have huge colonies of them there and they;re absolutely beautiful!

 

[gumbii]

that's totally on my to do list of tanks... a coldwater tank with strawberry nems and catalina gobies...

 

[Reef Bullet]

that's totally on my to do list of tanks... a coldwater tank with strawberry nems and catalina gobies...

Me too! I love catalina gobies!!!

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[ScarBosh]

This is a friends tank. He got it while diving. It's not a strawberry anemone because those are all soft coral and I've seen them many many times while diving myself. He said this caught his eye cuz it has a hard stony skeleton like a dendro but clearly it's not. Yes it is a "cold water" coral but he said it was 71 degrees when he got it

 

[Brian_reefragr]

Very interesting, the pic makes it look like a nem for sure. Maybe something similar to a duncan?

 

[BeanMachine]

I'm thinking it might be a walking dendro?

 

[gumbii]

I'm thinking it might be a walking dendro?

that was my second guess... but it's glue'd to a frag plug... failbot...

 

[ScarBosh]

Whatever it is it's awesome and I want a baby from him

 

[gumbii]

do a google search for balanophyllia... my book says that balanophyllia elegans is kinda cold water... it goes up to baja california... so it could be that...


GOOGLE IT!... i'm always right...

 

[MikeGilliland]

+1 on balano

 

[ScarBosh]

Thanks gumbi that's it! Looks like its a tough coral. Intertidal to 200ft deep lol

 

[BeanMachine]

Does that mean its non photoshbthetic given that huge range you think?

 

[gumbii]

balano are NPS...


AoA always has some nice pink ones... but i was always poorface...