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This will be a page to document the ID of Forestal (Dan).
This will be my own experience documenting another coral for ID, Gorgonian. The original started as a frag from local club trade. I have had for 2 years now and fragged several times, so has not grown much in size. Sources used for ID: Aquarium Corals, Borneman; Soft Corals and Sea Fans, Fabricius & Alderslade. Main difficulty is I am unable to dissect out the polyps, however the calyx appear to have smaller sclerites. Coral used: original:

Fragment:

Live Coral under 10x power showing wall detail with sclerites:

Bleached coral leaving sclerites with scale:

Sclerites under 10x power:


Sclerites are very small rods and spindles and larger, crescent shapes (?scaphoids) and spindles most with small tubercles.largest spindle/scaphoids are 0.1mm. No whorl pattern apparent. From what I can discern, although no direct comparison of sclerites with a source is a match, Muricea sp. is best guess.

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