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Phyllia131
04/16/2007, 05:05 AM
Tell me how far off I am.

Trachyphyllia?<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/PhantomGreen131/phyllia.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>

Wellsopyllia?<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/PhantomGreen131/DSC_1100.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/PhantomGreen131/wellso.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>

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Whole tank at the time, I beleive the other two brains to be lobophyllia, can you tell? Thanks.<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g45/PhantomGreen131/nano.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>

raoul
04/16/2007, 09:51 AM
At least the first three individual shots are Trachyphyllia, not sure about the fourth one, but I would lean more towards trachy. on that one as well, usually the flesh is different, but this one doesn't have much flesh to go by, and I'm not sure how their skeletal features are different.

In your full tank shot, it looks like the three across the center are Trachy.

There's been some revision to names and categories and some names have been done away with. Trachyphyllia is monotypic now, everything is T. geoffryi (I'm sure I spelled that wrong). No more Wellsophyllia, no more radiata. I found this info on wetwebmedia the other day. Lobophyllia, however, is not part of this group, so if you do have one, it won't be lumped together with the others.

As an aside, most people that have kept these long term recommend placing them on the substrate for various reasons. One of the reasons is so the flesh isn't irritated or torn as it moves against the rocks when it swells up or goes down.

You've got some good looking pieces there, congrats and good luck! :)

Hormigaquatica
04/16/2007, 11:25 AM
All 4 of your macro shots are Trachyphyllia (your red one is hurting, which is why it looks so different from the others. If it recovers, it will inflate just as much as your green ones are).

The three middle corals in a row in the full tank shot are all Trachyphyllia; the bottom left corner is not; it appears to be either Lobophyllia or Symphyllia.

Phyllia131
04/17/2007, 09:49 PM
I'm prettu sure the bottom left is a lobo, it's unmistakable when its all open up. I'm going to give the red one a iodine dip, unless there are any other suggestions. Last resot, fragging off the discolored part.

Hormigaquatica
04/18/2007, 01:54 AM
I dont think an iodine dip will do it any good- it doesnt really show signs of infection, just some kind of stress. If those dark patches are algae growing on the skeleton, I would (carefully) scrub them off so they dont continue to irritate the tissue.
I dont know where you have it positioned in the tank, but try moving it to a spot with a different light and water flow pattern; its clearly not happy where it is now (Im thinking it might need a slightly stronger water flow than what it appears to have now, since algae is able to settle on it fairly easily). Try feeding it too; might take a while to coax it out, but with repetition Im sure you can get it to start taking cyclopeeze or small mysis.
I just dont know that it is healthy enough to stand up to aggressive treatments like Iodine or fragging- try to improve its immediate conditions for a while first.