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[freedom75]

Ok guys I just bought a few pieces of coral and I have no clue what they are and I need help finding out so can figure out how to feed them. Can anyone help mehttp://home.triad.rr.com/jwray/reef.html <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected][/url]
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[davelin315]

Top picture - gorgonian, possibly photosynthetic, filter feeder, can be fed plankton.
2nd picture - open brain, photosynthetic, fairly easy to care for, can be fed just about anything including large pieces of meat (I feed mine by laying a chunk of shrimp on it, and it slowly opens it's mouth and pulls it in); can also be fed at night when the tentacles are out.
3rd picture - mushroom, photosynthetic, can also be fed planktonic or chunks of food (my mushrooms will "cup" chunks of shrimp or fish that are laid on them and swallow them up).
4th picture - toadstool or sarcophyton, photosynthetic and also a filter feeder of planktonic organisms, will have polyps extending as tiny stalks with filter appendages around the tips.
5th picture - the white things look to be bleached zooanthids, can be fed plankton or chunks of food, but are photosynthetic, so will probably slowly waste away. Under that is a caulstrea or candy cane coral, similar to the brain and mushrooms in feeding habits.
6th picture - seems to verify my guess that the white things are zooanthids, although you have a couple with more coloration there.