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Old 06-16-2010, 03:31 AM
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Default ID of coral and quick excited rant.

Alright, background story first.

I bought some new rock at ocean city to make a tower in which i could store and grow some of my new sps from the fishytime frag pack which I bought (thanks doug, all looking great) but it turned out that the rock had a hitchhiker coral. Also another rock had 3 hitching crabs, none of which were good, all of which were destroyed as I still run a sumpless system. Back to the coral, in the store I thought it was a really weak pile of zoos, since I only had a quick gander at the rock before I determined that the rock was the shape I wanted regardless of what was on it. SO.. I get it home, drill it, rod it, throw it in the tank.. look at it, realise it isnt zoos at all.. looks like some of the burnt skelatons I have on some of my other rocks which I always determined to be Flower pots.

But.. still tissue on it.. so ask Doug... he mentions a coral called cyphastrea, where Bloy mentioned Goniopora.. both have the same structure.. so I did my reading.. and figured Skely sticking out with some flesh isnt really a good start.. so Bi-daily ive been blasting some Zooplex on it and also throwing coral accel its way every 3 days, now almost a week later, I noted feeders out today.. so I shot some brine shrimp its way, and Bam.. tis eating meaty foods.. So.. here is a picture I thought I would share.. with both the intention of updates good or bad, and possible ID.. The flesh is black.. Dunno if that is due to near death lost color or what.. but keep that in mind.

This is it feeding:

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