Well, it's only a guess on my part. But what makes me think "not organ pipe" is the feathery texture of the tentacles. BTW I don't know why, but "pipe organ" just seems to roll off the tongue a lot easier than "organ pipe" although I do agree with you that the latter makes more sense from a logical point of view.

Invigor
Nice tank :cool:

Chad
Those look like clove polyps,mine glow orange under actinics.Nice coral,but you'll curse them after they over take the tank,sending stalks out to grow new colonies every where :biggrin: Harvey "infested" my tank with them! :razz: :mrgreen:

thanks guys!

that coral was purchased as a pipe organ, but that was from petcetera..so who knows what it REALLY is...

after looking up pics of a glove polyp coral, it could very well be that species.

as for spreading, there are already 2 polyps on the sandbed below it starting to flourish...I read a "pipe organ can not spread like green star polyps" but if it's a glove polyp, it can? eeks.

If you ever find that you have more than you want, PM me :biggrin:

- Chad

I'm pretty sure it is a pipe organ. I have a couple in my tank too. The skeletal base (pipe's) are identical, but the polyp's are quite differant. The pictured one is identical to one I have. The other I have is the more commonly seen one.

have you had them for a while? how's their growth rate?

I've had them about a year and find them to be a very slow grower.