Leather Coral ID

[AAAReefing]

Hello, I just got this leather coral from LFS and put it in my tank but im not sure what species it is. Could anyone ID it for me? Thanks!

 

[BristleWormHater]

Sinularia maybe?

 

[AAAReefing]

Sinularia maybe?

Yeah I’m thinking that’s what it is, kinda resembles Kenya tree too but I don’t think it’s Kenya tree

 

[blecki]

Hard to say before it opens. The darks pots in the pictures - do those fall off and float away?

 

[AAAReefing]

Hard to say before it opens. The darks pots in the pictures - do those fall off and float away?

I have one pic of them open here:

and by dark spots do you mean the hammer skeletons?

 

[GoReefin]

Did you get it from AquaSD? Looks similar to the one I got just thicker trunk. Everyone was calling it a Kenya tree or capnella species.

 

[AAAReefing]

Dis you get it from AquaSD? Looks similar to the one I got just thicker trunk. Everyone was calling it a Kenya tree or capnella species.

Nope, I got it from Detroit Reef Club but they might import that one

 

[sfin52]

Sinularia is what I'm thinking

 

[GoReefin]

Here's mine.

 

[AAAReefing]

Did you get it from AquaSD? Looks similar to the one I got just thicker trunk. Everyone was calling it a Kenya tree or capnella species.

I'm torn between a Kenya and a Sinularia because the polyps are a sort of neon greenish rather than the normal Kenya ones, but I don't think its a blue green one because of the stalk color

 

[blecki]

and by dark spots do you mean the hammer skeletons?

Nope. Kinda looks like there are dark spots on the flesh of the coral. These guys are susceptible to bacterial infections that turn them into black goo.

 

[AAAReefing]

Nope. Kinda looks like there are dark spots on the flesh of the coral. These guys are susceptible to bacterial infections that turn them into black goo.

Ohh no it's just a little bit of hair algae.

 

[GoReefin]

Awesome coral either way! You'll know soon enough if it starts dropping babies.

 

[blecki]

Ohh no it's just a little bit of hair algae.

If you got hair algae on the tops of any coral... you got a problem.

 

[AAAReefing]

Here's mine.

Beautiful coral and tank, I took another picture and mine seems to be a greener and has a sort of "neon dust" to one of the stalks

Here's mine.

beautfiul coral and tank by the way, and I think the only difference is that mine has a sort of neon dust to it? And it looks greener and darker than that one

 

[AAAReefing]

If you got hair algae on the tops of any coral... you got a problem.

Yeah I know, it came from the store and it's on some Zoas I have but they're doing pretty well as I picked up some hermits when i got the coral that cleaned off the Zoas almost entirely

 

[sfin52]

Nope. Kinda looks like there are dark spots on the flesh of the coral. These guys are susceptible to bacterial infections that turn them into black goo.

Are they every. Once it's in the coral lights out. Best you can try to do is cut off good parts that has mixed results

 

[GoReefin]

Beautiful coral and tank, I took another picture and mine seems to be a greener and has a sort of "neon dust" to one of the stalks

beautfiul coral and tank by the way, and I think the only difference is that mine has a sort of neon dust to it? And it looks greener and darker than that one

This one looks a lot more like a Nephthea coral.

Here is my Pink Nephthia which has those same markings

 

[AAAReefing]

This one looks a lot more like a Nephthea coral.

Here is my Pink Nephthia which has those same markings

Nice. Aren’t neptheas the less invasive version of Kenyas?

 

[GoReefin]

Nice. Aren’t neptheas the less invasive version of Kenyas?

They don't drop babies. More like a Sinularia