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Just added this new coral to my reef tank. Actually it is not new, I have had it for a long time in one of my sale tanks. I only recently was able to confirm that it is an ecrusting coral. I think it is in the Leptoseris family. It has tiny hair-like protrusions that you would not see except...

Actually, he probably was trying to look away. He is extremely camera shy. I am sure I took at least twenty pictures just trying to get one I could display.

Here are some views that don't show up as well in the full tank picture. Left side of the tank: That finger leather coral started out as a single stalk with no branches about two years ago. You can see it above in the original part of this post 17 months ago. (6th picture from the top). It's...

Thought I'd update this tank. Today there is not a free spot anywhere in the tank.

Yeah, I got stung by a bristleworm while I was scooping the sand out of that tank. If that has never happened to you, believe me, you don't want it to. I had bristles in my right hand ring finger... right on the tip and on the heal of my palm. Most of the time I didn't feel it, but every time I...

I have never seen Majano in person, but I just checked out some photos online and I don't think this matches. Perhaps not fully matured yet. It does have two rows of tentacles like the zoas (one up and one down) and is similarly sized. The tentacles don't look like the ones I saw in pictures of...

Finally got some pics of this critter, one with and one without a flash. Not real clear, because I had to Zoom in and use the macro setting. That's not bubble algae next to it. It is some of that macro algae I got from lilfishie.

If it isn't a zoa, it does a great impersonation! The lights are out now so it is all folded up for the night. Maybe I can take a picture in the next couple of days during daylight (lights on) hours. It doesn't look like any aiptasia I have seen either in person or in pictures.

Another one of these zoas showed up... in my sump tank of all places! Looks just like the one in my main tank. I am beginning to wonder if it is some kind of pest. Are there any zoas that like to take over the tank?

I discovered a zoanthid I didn't know I had. Doesn't look like any of my other zoas, so I have no idea where it came from, nor how it got where it is. That coral skeleton it is attached to was a dried-out, bleached-out piece of rock when I put it in the tank, so I know it didn't come in with it...

You were right. The first reply I got on RF ID'd my coral: Neon Green Palua Nepthea Leather Here's a link for it: http://www.atlanticseafarms.net/servlet/the-329/palau-green-sinularia/Detail

Lorrie, you had me going there for a minute with the "toxic leather" thing! I will post it on RF, when I can make the time to do it. It is about an inch and a half as you see it in the pic. It was one of my first corals. When I got it (9-10 months ago), it was barely big enough to fill that...

The more I do with saltwater, the more I feel like a novice! I have this coral that I have always called a Kenya Tree. The other day, I was given a Kenya Tree (in a trade) and it made me question my identification of the first one. I realize there are many different types of saltwater critters...

I borrowed my wife's camera. Mine doesn't do good macro shots. Even hers could be better. So I found another coral?? on a piece of liverock. I looked at it under a magnifying glass, but I am at a loss. I thought it was algae, but it doesn't feel like algae. It has been in a plastic bin full of...

I GOT HER!!! Well, I don't know that it is a "her", but she IS a "Dory Fish" I have been waiting soooooo long for my Blue Tang and finally got her in a trade the other day! Now my overcrowding is complete. There is no room in my tank for anything else. I got a large tube anemone in the same...