My pink aquarium!

[1wizz]

Hi all, The plating pink in the first and second pictures. I, at first thought was coraline algea but as it is growing at quite a rate i'm now thinking Montipora. Could i be right??
Also in the third picture the darker patches are slower growing and seem to lift at the edges making me think its 'alive' could this be a form of bryozoans?
A positive ID would be great thanks for looking

 

[BeelzeBob]

i dont think thats a monti, but i think im jealous of your coraline growth rate. thats incredible.

i say no on montie, because they're no polyps. if it were yer xenia and shrooms would be gettin beat up.

 

[1wizz]

Thanks Beelzebob, :headbang2: I dont know whether i was sceptic or hopeful.
What do you think off the third pic?

 

[BeelzeBob]

just based on my experience, and nothing else, id say a different color, of coraline

oo ooo, i know a way you can check for shure. touch it! it it crumbles and braks its coraline, a coral would have a strong bone structure!

 

[1wizz]

Noooo it's tooo pretty... i'll let it be.
The stuff on the rock in the third picture is slimey to the touch though.

 

[BeelzeBob]

ohh thats cyano*(sp) bacteria.

thats baaad mmmmkay!:lol: scrape it off or somethin.

ive never had it, so other peoples, whadda ya do for cyano?

 

[Grins]

It could be a sponge as well...the photo isn't clear enough to tell but I have some beautiful purple and burgandy sponges.

 

[1wizz]

Could be as i have patches of sponge here and there but they are green to yellow color, i also have a few of these.....

 

[BeelzeBob]

i have baby blue, black, orange, white, and brown sponges.

 

[Reefkid 07]

It is definately close to coraline, but not quite dark enough. Pretty Xenis anyway.


Jake