Rocks Reef Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 It has bubble like polyps.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maas1221 Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 It's kind of hard to tell from that picture but it looks like a rhodactis but the bubbles are usually a ricordia/yuma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sascha D. Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 There aren't a lot of mushroom corals with proper names. I believe it's because the color varies greatly due to lighting and environmental factors. Anyway, blue base and red nuggets could be Superman Rhodactis. Does it look like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocks Reef Posted March 6, 2017 Author Share Posted March 6, 2017 Lavender with green bubbles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saltwater snoopy Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Yep Maas got it , some even have different color dots or razed bump Yuma are cool Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woods Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 I am guessing it is a type of Rhodactis as Yumas and Ricordea have many many more bubbles than that pic shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saltwater snoopy Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Yes I was looking at so many, you may be right the one you know for sure have more symmetrical around the dotsSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saltwater snoopy Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Some of the nicest Yuma I'd seen Where in RCA about a yr ago, I was hooked different colors dots too, they said a lady offered so much they had to sell, my fav of the mushrooms Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Gott Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 I wouldn't classify it as a Rhodactis as there appears to be no branching on the "bubbles" (which you can see even in the subtler bubbles on the superman rhodactis pic). Neither does their frequency or distribution appear to match Ricordea Yuma, and the variation in sizes across the striations/ridges further calls that ID into question for me. I have seen Discosoma sp. with bubble/tentacles as pronounced as these, but they may be misclassified. Sascha is totally right; the mushroom corallimorphs haven't been fully classified yet, and with their recent popularity I think collectors are bringing us increasing numbers of "new" variants that we may not have named yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saltwater snoopy Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Yes it wasn't the same I must of seen one like his when I was looking for the Yuma, but I got it wrong, I like the ones I seen in a display cube at RCA that I was looking them up for a week at least a year ago, its was on the same sight but wasn't the Yuma had different size bumps , really raised but the yumas are distinctive I was wrong on thatSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Gott Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Yes it wasn't the same I must of seen one like his when I was looking for the Yuma, but I got it wrong, I like the ones I seen in a display cube at RCA that I was looking them up for a week at least a year ago, its was on the same sight but wasn't the Yuma had different size bumps , really raised but the yumas are distinctive I was wrong on thatSent from my iPhone using TapatalkI believe the one you're referring to is a St. Thomas mushroom. They're my new fav. They're also an excellent example of the taxonomical challenges we run up against in this hobby. I've seen them referred to as both Discosoma sanctithomae and Rhodactis sanctithomae, and while I believe the consensus in the scientific community is that they're R. sanctithomae, both names are accepted; the Discosoma name seems more commonly used in our hobby; and there has been a long history of names used for it (http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456765).Here's an article that may be of some use in identifying the mystery mushroom:http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2002/10/invertsSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saltwater snoopy Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Thank you good reading, didn't have time to finish but will be reading more later in the evening Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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