Can you help us identify our corals?

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  1. nedlin

    nedlin Plankton

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    Hi All
    We recently purchased a piece of rock with at least 5 different pieces of coral on it. Could anyone help us identify what the corals are?????

    1 - on the rigth there are some kind of polyps, they are red/bright green
    2 - There are 4 green mushrooms
    3 - There are 3 very small illuminous yellow mushrooms
    4 - There is a lot of dark grey smooth coral in several places over the rock
    5 - On the right hand side there is a cream/ pink round something. It looks quite furry, but is hard to touch. It has developed 2 small holes in it.

    Thank you to anyone who can give us some information.

    Michelle
     

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  3. Crimson Ghost

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  4. nedlin

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    Thank you! If anyone has any ideas on the yellow type mushrooms that would be great too
     
  5. horkn

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    Well, the polyps look like palys, and the rest appear to all be types of fuzzy mushrooms, outside of the neon green ones. I have no clue exactly what kind of shrooms those are as I am not a shroom aficionado.

    The grey thing appears to be a sponge, and the hard cream/ pink thing might be a tunicate.
     
  6. Crimson Ghost

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    Need a better picture - could be yellow ricordia
     
  7. nedlin

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    further pics

    Thanks. It's difficult to get a better picture but I have tried.

    Also there is this fan shaped thing. A smaller fan seems to be growing at the base of it.
     

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  9. Crimson Ghost

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    that looks like a blob :) could be a sponge
     
  10. nedlin

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    Blob

    Thank you. It''s hard to get a good picture!
    I'll do a bit of searching for sponge pictures
    Thanks
     
  11. frkid247

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    yeah those shrooms look like yuma ricordea of some sort. and that yellow ball looking thing is a sponge (two holes) intake and outtake... i have had one like that.