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seti007 
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Posted: June 29 2005 at 5:32pm |
can anyone identify this coral I got recently. It was sold to me as a branching galaxia. Is that right??
Here is a closeup of the polyps
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Posted: June 29 2005 at 5:34pm |
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I didn't know Galaxea was branching! but maybe so. Nice coral!!
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Posted: June 29 2005 at 5:55pm |
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Same here, I could not find any info on branching galaxia online either. I was hoping someone has seen this b4.
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Posted: June 29 2005 at 6:45pm |
Could be galaxea fascicularis:
http://www.biolbull.org/cgi/content/full/204/2/146
http://www.nps.gov/npsa/NPSAcorl/Oculinid.htm
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Galaxea fascicularis |
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Galaxy Coral |
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Medium to High |
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Can be difficult to start; easier once established; needs good light, water movement, water quality |
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Susan Matney
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Posted: June 29 2005 at 6:55pm |
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Susan, Where did you get that from? I looked and looked and found nothing.
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Posted: June 29 2005 at 7:02pm |
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Posted: June 29 2005 at 7:28pm |
Look at the link below... My links didn't work 
Looks to me that there are more Branching galaxea than not...
http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/coralid_search.php
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Posted: June 29 2005 at 7:36pm |
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Hmmm - after look at these it looks like either a galaxea acrhelia or horrescens. Forgot about that site - it's a good one.
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Posted: June 29 2005 at 8:19pm |
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Nice, I have the same peice. It was also sold to me as branching galaxia. I have had it for over a year. very slow growth.
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Posted: June 30 2005 at 8:26pm |
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Cool thanks everyone. So they were right then Its a branching type galaxia. It was dying at the store and seems to have recovered. The polyp extension has increased since I started using carbon. It has a lot of small transparent barnicles on it that are constatntly feeding and look real cool.
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