ok guys so i know most of you know what these are if you went to rap and saw them and for those of you that dont know about them here is some info
We have a select few of these corals for sale, there are at this time only 62 in the country. I happen to have four of them for sale asking $175 each for them or $300 a pair. pics will be up as soon as the amers batterys are charged
Rarely seen in the pet industry, we just got a batch of Heteropsammia coclea. There is little printed material on these guys to work from.
This is a strange type of coral that, at first glance, looks like Balanophyllia, but it stands alone on the sand floor of the ocean.
They form an almost shell shape to the bottom of the corals.
These fascinating little corals share a common charactistic of having a symbiotic association with a small invertebrate called a sipunculid or peanut worm, which gives the corals mobility and the ability to stay on the surface of the soft sediments in the environment where they live. The symbiotic association begins when the larval coral settles on a small snail shell as the first phase of the corals adult life. As the coral grows and its skeletal deposition nearly engulfs the shell, the peanut worm takes up residence inside the shell and through its own activity maintains a channel through the coral skelton to the outside. By the eversion and retraction of its feeding proboscis into or onto the soft sediment, the peanut worm can move the coral to a new position and keep it from being buried.
We have a select few of these corals for sale, there are at this time only 62 in the country. I happen to have four of them for sale asking $175 each for them or $300 a pair. pics will be up as soon as the amers batterys are charged
Rarely seen in the pet industry, we just got a batch of Heteropsammia coclea. There is little printed material on these guys to work from.
This is a strange type of coral that, at first glance, looks like Balanophyllia, but it stands alone on the sand floor of the ocean.
They form an almost shell shape to the bottom of the corals.
These fascinating little corals share a common charactistic of having a symbiotic association with a small invertebrate called a sipunculid or peanut worm, which gives the corals mobility and the ability to stay on the surface of the soft sediments in the environment where they live. The symbiotic association begins when the larval coral settles on a small snail shell as the first phase of the corals adult life. As the coral grows and its skeletal deposition nearly engulfs the shell, the peanut worm takes up residence inside the shell and through its own activity maintains a channel through the coral skelton to the outside. By the eversion and retraction of its feeding proboscis into or onto the soft sediment, the peanut worm can move the coral to a new position and keep it from being buried.
