Thread: Coral ID please
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Old 08-19-2012, 11:01 PM
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I should have looked harder before I posted here. I think it is carnation coral which would explain the slow growth.
Well it is not a carnation coral but an octocoral of some kind, eight polyp feathers. This is a large family that includes gorgonians, some are photosynthetic and some not. Mine has a faint green luminescence that leads me to think it is light lover.

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