Coral ID please

[viper357]

Can anyone help with an ID on this please, thanks.

 

[Ayoob]

Gorgonian
Filter feeder

 

[viper357]

Thanks, any idea on a scientific name, I'm battling to ID it properly?

 

[Lord_Blackadder]

Swine...where did you find that? Been after one of these for years but for some stupid reason they're hardly ever imported. It's Rumphella, photosynthetic gorgonian. Rather easy to keep.

 

[Goby]

maybe Pinnigorgia flava, grube's gorgonian?

 

[Lord_Blackadder]

maybe Pinnigorgia flava, gube's gorgonian?

Similar. Pinnigorgia usually branches at right angles though and is more slender.

 

[Marine1]

I've also been looking for one, who ever has got please pm me....

 

[dallasg]

Swine...where did you find that? Been after one of these for years but for some stupid reason they're hardly ever imported. It's Rumphella, photosynthetic gorgonian. Rather easy to keep.

I have a large one, can make you a frag

 

[Marine1]

I have a large one, can make you a frag

Frag for sale please

 

[dallasg]

 

[dallasg]

Had it 3 yrs and never fed it

 

[Goby]

Similar. Pinnigorgia usually branches at right angles though and is more slender.

like always spot on. the ID king

here's another link: double u double u dot imp-zengerle.de/privat/bild_gross.php?bild=rumphella

for some reason it won't accept the actual link.

 

[viper357]

Swine...where did you find that? Been after one of these for years but for some stupid reason they're hardly ever imported. It's Rumphella, photosynthetic gorgonian. Rather easy to keep.

Thank you Squire, that looks like the one, in all my searching I don't remember ever coming across that name Here, have a . No idea where I got it from, I think it may have come on a batch of live rock I bought a few years ago.

 

[Lord_Blackadder]

They're Indo-Pacific, rather than Caribbean like most photosynthetic gorgonians. It's a little bit bizarre that they aren't regular imports, because they're very common pretty much everywhere in their range. One of the reefs at Sodwana has a thicket of 50cm high colonies. I saw about 10 species in Sulawesi, most of which were quite spectacular. You can also keep them in FOWLR tanks because hardly anything eats them.