Gorgonian Identification Please!

[lewiss]

Hello,

Does anyone (sorgan in particular!) know what type of gorg this is :

The pictures really dont do the coral justice, so its prob better to describe it. It looks like velvet. Its main body colour is a redy pink purple, different in each light, and where each bit of light hits it. Its polyps are very very small, and are a dark purple.

Any ideas?

 

[sorgan]

murileceopsis flavida or purple bush gorg I think.

 

[lewiss]

Cheers mate, any info on it?? photosynthetic? or pure NPS?

 

[weezawoo]

Its beautiful!

 

[sorgan]

I think it's photosynthetic but needs a regular feed, it feeds at night.

 

[lewiss]

Cheers m8!! Wish you could see it, so pretty!!

 

[sorgan]

I've had one, that's the gorg that poisoned me when I fragged it
Died during the crash.

 

[lewiss]

Poisoned?! oh no!! Please tell me your joking?! What happened??

 

[sorgan]

If you decide to frag it don't get the purple stuff in your mouth, that's all I will say lol.

 

[lewiss]

Lol! Sounds interesting..

 

[weezawoo]

You tried eating it? sounds scary So now you have poisonous zoas and a gorg! I think someone should set up a lethal coral tank...

 

[sorgan]

I didn't try to eat it lol, I got splashed.

 

[lewiss]

What did it do to you?

 

[sorgan]

made me dizzy, made my hands, legs and feet go numb, i was hard of breathing for a bit and my vision blurred.
only lasted about an hour so i sat it out (after eating a few fist fulls of antihistamines)

 

[weezawoo]

Scary stuff! Glad your ok tho