Just An Update From Me!

[dayzofspeed]

It is a Flame Angel, we all know it's a Flame Angel, and it matches every photo of the Flame Angel on google images, but the guy in the shop has told Lewis it's a Blacktip Reef shark. He's gonna be gutted when he finds it hasn't grown in a years time. Of course I have never seen a juvenille blacktip so that may be the correct colouration.

 

[lewiss]

A Shepards Pygmy Angel - Centropyge shepardi

Anyone on the coral ID's??

 

[woody88]

ITS A FLAME ANGEL FOR GOD SAKE!

Lewis stop trying to confuse us!

 

[lewiss]

haha! You missed my post i take it Woody!

 

[woody88]

haha! You missed my post i take it Woody!

Er....................er............!

 

[seffieuk]

Oh darn, just came back to this post to play and you have told everyone what the little pygmy is

Right, so my guess on the lime/yellow coral: Scieronephthya - Tree coral?

Now the blue one, so you say its not a sponge, so it's a softie, cant be a Gorg surely.........runs off to find Bournman.

Is it a Heliopora?


Seffie x

 

[lewiss]

Oh darn, just came back to this post to play and you have told everyone what the little pygmy is

Right, so my guess on the lime/yellow coral: Scieronephthya - Tree coral?
YES!

Now the blue one, so you say its not a sponge, so it's a softie, cant be a Gorg surely.........runs off to find Bournman.
I've ID'd it myself so I'm not 100% on the ID. I've found a species that I think its identical to. I'm sure it's not a sponge, and pretty sure it's not a gorg.

Is it a Heliopora?
Don't think so.

Seffie x

I saw an orange/red one on eBay and made me google it when I saw this as they looked the same.

 

[sorgan]

is the blue coral soft or hard?

i ask as the tips look slightly bleached which would say to me its a calcium skeleton thing so not gorg or fan, but it could be a sponge but then it wouldnt be hard.

if you held a gun to my head i would say it, if it was hard, would be stylophora.

if it was soft then i am not sure, probably some variety of sponge. its strange i have this niggling name but i cant seem to recall it.

 

[lewiss]

Sorgan your question leads in a way to a narrowed down clue. Its hard upon touch, and there are no polyps. It has a calcium skeleton i believe (as you say - bleached tips etc). If i am correct its not a LPS, soft, or SPS, more of a inbetweener. Thats a big clue to what i think it is..

 

[ALW]

A Shepards Pygmy Angel - Centropyge shepardi

Anyone on the coral ID's??

Dont think its a Shepards, Its too red/orange like a Flame. Shepards are more orange/yellow

 

[sorgan]

some variety of octocoral? i gotta say that i think its from the Helioporidae family. please enlighten us

 

[ALW]

Was the Angelfish expensive?

 

[lewiss]

it's come out a lot reder than he is the photo, he is more orange, similar to my clowns orange. His shape, and dorsel fins are acurate to that of a shepherds.

he was £68 but i got him cheaper for helping out the bloke in my LFS the other day. I basically watched the shop for an hour so he gave me a load of stuff!

I believe its a Lace Coral, but may be wrong. If you google image it they look the identically the same.

Lace Coral is a hydro coral, which is a cross between a soft and a LPS

 

[sorgan]

well i will be damned, ive never seen one of these before! azoox aswell

 

[lewiss]

i know - i saw a fire coral on ebay a while ago, and researched it - by the time i was ready to buy it it had been sold. The one for sale was a frag. Then i saw this fo £35 (i got it free, see above!) and took it home straight away! I'll let you know how it gets on.

Fingers crossed.

A bit off topic but they have had a jellyfish pair for a few months now - very cool to watch. They have them labelled as upside down jellyfish. Dont worry i'm not considering it!

well i'll be! I just checked the seller who sold it last time, they have a fire frag again. Here's the link if your interested Sorgan:
http/cgi.ebay.co.uk/fire-coral-frag-sps-coral-marine-tank-/280702328189?pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Fish&hash=item415b299d7d