The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread

[shilala]

Originally Posted by Wolfgang

In your video the first ones are trumpets. The next one is a Pavona coral also known as lettuce or potato chip coral (thi has particularly long sweeper tentacles careful when placing other corals around this). That is a Maxima you are correct. They usually dont like being on the sand the best way to make them happy is to bury a flat piece of live rock in the sand so its just below the surface of the sand and put the clam on that. After a while the clam will attach itself to the rock. The "pipe organ coral" looks to me like ti may be galaxea coral but I cant say for sure unless I see it with the polyps retracted. The yellow anemone is infact an anemone all mushroom corals are. The ones you have are known as rhoactids. The "frogspawn" you showed may either be hammer coral or a torch coral. Frogspawn will have multiple nodes on each tentacle it looked to me like there were only nodes on the tips.

Your tank is looking great Scott! Keep up the good work.

Thanks, Mark!!!
I asked Lisa, and she said that truly was a Galaxea. She remembers this stuff pretty good. The Maxima is hers, and you're right about attaching. When I was moving some stuff and gluing it the other day I tried to pick it up and it's attached itself to a big piece of junk it found. When it gets a bit bigger, I'll put a big rock under her so she can switch.
What was sold to me as frogspawn used to be tiny and really did look like frogspawn. Since I've fixed my water and started feeding phyto and all kinds of other stuff, it's gotten just as big as my hammer. The only differences in the two are slight color variations and the tips are slightly different. That gets more the same every day, really. I just checked it, and in fact, it does have little nodes and tiny branches off the big branches.
I think what looked like a yellow anemone is actually a carpet anemone, or was sold to me as such. It's cool. It's green with tight rows of brown things that look like tiny polyps. Looks way more like a coral than an anemone. I'll try to put up a decent pic of that one for ya so I can find out for sure.
There's also one other thing I'm not sure of, I don't know if it got in the video. I think it's a leather. It's insides are a beautiful blue. I'll get a pic of that, too.
Two pics coming up.
Thanks a million, Mark!!! I just took a test looking at the tank and I know what everything is now. Ya done good, that's definately not a small feat you accomplished.