Candy Cane coral ID please

[ardenen]

I bought this from a Salem saltwater store many years ago as a little couple polyp frag. I have seen multi-color candy-cane corals and this one isn't so much multi-color as it is pinkish white. Wondering if anyone knew what it was called?

[stylaster]

candycane or trumpet coral, i dont think they have any other names then that, even if they are different colors

[ardenen]

Huh -- guess it was a dumb question then -- I figured it was like some of the SPS corals where you had things like the Oregon Tort vs Cali tort vs other torts. Thanks for the help.

[ReefSafari]

I have heard of "Kryptonite" Candy Cane before...those are NEON Green and bright, I think more than anything most of the names are just a sales tacktic, used to make the corals sound much cooler.

 

It would be interesting to know if there are different subspecies of CandyCane or Trumpet Corals...

[Rick]

I've seen the one on the right called both Kryptonite and Radioactive Nuclear Green:

 

This one I've seen called Chocolate Mint:

[ReefSafari]

Really Awsome Candy Canes! Curious if those are different subspecies of Candy Cane, or is there just one species that just happens to be extremely variable in looks?

[ardenen]

Did some more research and it seems there are at least 3 in common aquarium trade though they all seem to share the same names.

C. furcata seems to be the true Candy cane coral though it's also called torch, trumpet, and bullseye

C. echinulata is what I think I have - a Trumpet Coral (but again goes by all the other names) and it's suppose to be more tightly packed together, more bland in color, and have a larger difference in height from the mouth to the edge.

C. curvata is suppose to be the Bullseye coral and from what i've read the individual polyps are further apart than either C. echinulata and C. furcata

 

Still don't know if the different colors are diff species

[Rick]

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I have one other teal green one also. It is more of a solid teal though rather than the light and dark stripes. I think the three green ones I have are all the same species as they really only differ in the color. The brown and green one (Chocolate Mint or whatever) above I believe is a different species. It not only has 2 colors but the heads are a different shape and they are clustered together differently. I've never really looked each one up though to see.

[dsoz]

Think species like "dog". Very general term, many "breeds" and "colors" available, but they are all "dog."

 

Candycane is a common name like "dog" and there are different "types"

 

Even Oregon Tort and Cali Tort are the same species (Acropora tortuosa), they just have different color patterns that "breed" true when they are fragged (oregon tort is a rich blue and cali tort is more purple...).

 

dsoz

[nwcoralfarm]

pinkus Candius cainificus or almostes whitess trumpetosa. Hope this helps(laugh)