The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread

[shilala]

Originally Posted by OLS

OK, I looked on the previous page and see now what you are talking about. If that is 'supposed' to be,
or as you put it, smacks of a leather coral, then I think you have a Porites species there. If it is blue, then
that is reaslly something. I wish I had that. They are also tough to keep alive, put em way up top once you
feel it is acclimated, turbid water and MAYBE target feed? They tend to be out much more at night when in
captivity, so if you can't get it eating in the daytime, you may have trouble keeping it alive. This is the
species of coral that you often see called "worm rock", "Christmas-tree worm rock" or "Bisma rock" It's one
of my personal favorites, if in fact that's what it is. Of course the bisma rock is a much different TYPE of porites.
And I only THINK that's what it is, but that's a great pic, btw.

Brad, this guy is brown and looks like a leather outside, but he has a rock hard skeleton. His skeleton is blue/white.
That thing that is in the background is just a great big blue/white skeleton that I bought years ago in florida cause it was gorgeous. It ended up in the fish tank cause I got tired of looking at it.
I suppose my insistance that the two are even remotely related is pretty nonsensical and uninformed. I just thought the similarity was cool.
That brown lump I have has little polyps. You can see them. They used to just come out at night. Now they come out more often.
He's currently at the bottom of the tank, I haven't moved him up for lack of a place to put him.
Lisa's trumpet fell down, so now I have a reason to go diving again. I'll reattach it and sit the brown un-named guy up higher.