a couple more unknowns....

[BryanM]

 

[scotty333]

Favia
Pineapple sponge
Dead acans
Dead candy canes
Hard to say since they’re dead

 

[BristleWormHater]

Favia
Pineapple sponge
Dead acans
Dead candy canes
Hard to say since they’re dead

That's bigger than any pineapple sponge I've ever seen lol.
I'm pretty sure its an orange ball sponge in pic 2 , one of these

I love them

 

[BristleWormHater]

Favia
Pineapple sponge
Dead acans
Dead candy canes
Hard to say since they’re dead

I only see one dead coral here on pic 3. The others are various cup corals, they aren't sold in this hobby because as you can see they aren't very attractive and look like coral skeletons, but you can tell they arent dead because they still have color.

 

[BristleWormHater]

Pic 1 looks like a cup coral or maybe colonial tunicates. The picture is a little fuzzy.

 

[BristleWormHater]

Almost forgot... @ISpeakForTheSeas

 

[PharmrJohn]

Pic 1 looks like a cup coral or maybe colonial tunicates. The picture is a little fuzzy.

Yeah, looks like tunicates to me.....

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Yeah, pic 1 is too blurry for a solid ID, but I would guess either a sponge or a coral from what I can make put of the texture.

Pic 2 is definitely a sponge (not a pineapple sponge though - those are from the genus Sycon and tend to have a pretty distinctive look).

Pic 3 is two different Atlantic stony corals; I'm not convinced either is dead - they're not sold in the hobby because Atlantic stony corals are protected species, and it's illegal to sell them (so you can only legally obtain them by having them come in on live rock).

 

[BristleWormHater]

Yeah, pic 1 is too blurry for a solid ID, but I would guess either a sponge or a coral from what I can make put of the texture.

Pic 2 is definitely a sponge (not a pineapple sponge though - those are from the genus Sycon and tend to have a pretty distinctive look).

Pic 3 is two different Atlantic stony corals; I'm not convinced either is dead - they're not sold in the hobby because Atlantic stony corals are protected species, and it's illegal to sell them (so you can only legally obtain them by having them come in on live rock).

Do you think they could be atlantia?

 

[DaJMasta]

First image sort of looks like a hydnophora, but if it's from Gulf live rock it probably isn't.

Second is a sponge

Third image is probably Phyllangia americana - hidden cup coral - on the bottom and a different but maybe a vaguely related species above - some kind of favid maybe? Letting it grow and extend polyps may give you an idea.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Do you think they could be atlantia?

I would guess not - Cladocora arbuscula is the closest I know at the moment, but corals (particularly from the Atlantic) aren't my strong point. The other may or may not be a Star coral of some variety.

 

[BristleWormHater]

Yeah, pic 1 is too blurry for a solid ID, but I would guess either a sponge or a coral from what I can make put of the texture.

Pic 2 is definitely a sponge (not a pineapple sponge though - those are from the genus Sycon and tend to have a pretty distinctive look).

Pic 3 is two different Atlantic stony corals; I'm not convinced either is dead - they're not sold in the hobby because Atlantic stony corals are protected species, and it's illegal to sell them (so you can only legally obtain them by having them come in on live rock).

It makes me so sad, we'll likely lose a lot if not all Atlantic corals and they won't even be preserved in captivity.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

It makes me so sad, we'll likely lose a lot if not all Atlantic corals and they won't even be preserved in captivity.

Thankfully, TBS is working on that:

We are excited to donate the first corals from the Gulf Coast to the Mote International Gene Bank. Woohoo! A selection of corals from the Tampa Bay Saltwater farm is now securely preserved for future generations.

Coral reefs are experiencing unprecedented die-offs worldwide, and it’s critical to restore them with resilient and genetically diverse corals that have the best chances to survive and reproduce. However, scientists can only do that if our native corals don’t disappear first. To protect the living treasure of coral genetic diversity, Mote has created a unique, large-scale, land-based, living coral gene bank where dozens of coral genotypes (genetic varieties) of at least 30 species can be stored in triplicate.
International Coral Gene Bank

Photos of tube, hidden cups, stars and oculina corals growing on TBS farmed Live Rock.

 

[BryanM]

A couple more pics of pic1, .... Its hard to get the camera to focus on that sucker.

 

[BryanM]

and pic 3 looks washed out, but i think that guy is alive. its got subtle color to it, again... all kinda hard to get really good pics, even with filters. I'm surely trying!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Honestly, these pics are all too blurry to clearly confirm most of the images

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

A couple more pics of pic1, .... Its hard to get the camera to focus on that sucker.

I'm pretty sure that's another coral - if it has a hard skeleton, that would confirm it.

Regardless, it seems like you seriously scored on corals with this rock, which is really cool.

 

[BryanM]

I'm pretty sure that's another coral - if it has a hard skeleton, that would confirm it.

Regardless, it seems like you seriously scored on corals with this rock, which is really cool.

This rock was very alive, my only sadness is that I did not realize there were good and bad hitchhikers. I put everything in, including two mantis shrimp.

One was easily caught. The other is still haunting me to this day.

 

[kyreefville]

I was thinking wow such good photos wish I could get photos that good.

And wow what treasures to have received. It would almost make me want to set it up in separate tank for Atlantic reef treasures. But I’m weird like that.