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Holly
10-11-2004, 12:04 PM
After several set backs I was finally able to get it set up. I bought it used and it came with some LR which has some corals on it. The tank is done cycling and now the corals are looking better than ever. But I'm not sure what this one is. Can anyone help? I took the pic in the morning before the lights came on. After the lights are on for 5-10 minutes the whole thing is covered in the little branches. Any help would be appreciated.
cmhouser
10-13-2004, 06:21 AM
I'm sorry - it's kind of hard to see. Can you get a better pic?
brody98
10-14-2004, 07:01 PM
It looks like a mat of green stars, is the mat purple?
Holly
10-15-2004, 07:48 AM
The mat is purple. Here's a better pic.
TIA
Chuck S
10-15-2004, 02:51 PM
Yep green star polyps

Pachyclavularia violacea
brody98
10-15-2004, 08:01 PM
Looks like a nice size piece of green stars your lucky to have it on the rock already, in a few months it will spread to other rocks. If you want more just put some smaller pieces of rock right next to an edge of the purple mat and eventually it will grow on to the rock and after it is doing well on the small piece you can move it to another part of the tank and have more./ubbthreads/images/graemlins/spin.gif
KillBill75
10-19-2004, 06:45 AM
Hey Guys, I just got a 5" piece of LR with that purple mat all over it from a friend that had it in a refugium with High salinity(1.032).It looked ok when he brought it over last week but now it has developed a white sort of shmeg on part of the rock.The tubes have never opened.I placed next to the top of the tank hoping for progress but non yet.
Think it was the High SG of his tank and now this stuff is junK?
My Parameters: Temp 78.5f , SG 1.025 , Ca+ 400 ,Alk 10 ,175w MH 10K,150 watt VHO URI actinc.
Thanks
brody98
10-21-2004, 08:32 PM
Remove anything that is covering the tubes with a soft (new) toothbrush and hope for the best. Sometimes if anything is covering the tops of the tubes they won’t come out and if they stay down too long the algae inside of them starts to die off. good luck
cheerncougar
10-25-2004, 12:20 AM
in the first picture it kind of looks like encrusting gargonian, the purple doesnt look dark enough to be green star polyps