New Find/Black Christmas Tree Coral

[Whitebird1]

I found a item that the LFS employees had no idea what it was, guessed it was a Mistake in shipping. I just ID as a Christmas Tree Coral, Studeriotes longiramosa . This one is JET BLACK, about 6-8 inch's fully extended, with a Foot/cone similar to a feather duster about 4-5 inch's long.
Anybody have any feed back on this item? Desirable? Common?
Reef safe?
Greg

 

[reefsandrotts]

Had one many years ago,
reef safe but they tend to melt down after a short time in captivity.
The base feels almost like thorns flattened out if I remember correctly,the base is what melted on me first.
Does the base match my disciption?

 

[Whitebird1]

Yes the base is like you described. i have had it 2 weeks+ and all is good so far. just ID it today.

 

[reefsandrotts]

Watch the spines on the base,my seemed that when they started to lets say relax a little it was that next morning I woke up to an awful mess.
My tank looked like coffee and the coral had melted and that was a 135 at the time.

 

[Whitebird1]

My luck, have it in a 12 gal, it looks good so far and I havent crashed a tank in 28 days, leave it to me to bring a possible time bomb home and happily place it in my tank. Thanks for the heads up.
Greg

 

[MCWarhammer]

It sounds interesting, can you post any pics of it?

 

[Whitebird1]

I have not figered how to post pics yet, but i will sit down tonight and try, i put the tree bomb in my 29 Fish/LV setup to be safe. Just finished a 12 gal i would like to post also.

 

[Whitebird1]

1st try at posting a pic!
the coral ws not open at this time.
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[MCWarhammer]

almost

put the link image inbetween the ][ like

[img]http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/114612Black_Thing_Mod_2.jpg[/img]

to give you

 

[Whitebird1]

Like This
well that did not work AAAUUUGGG

 

[MCWarhammer]

actually that did work.. reefcentral said you cant do that? my pic is showing that now too.. you did it correctly.. either host your images in this gallery or make a free acct at photobucket.com

if you use the code you entered here on reefcentral, that would have worked.