Another Acan ID thread...

[Azilla]

Anyone have a clue what this is... I have brain and pinapple corals and they look nothing like this...

http://www.gerardrodriguez.com/idplease.jpg

[sspargur]

Looks like a favia to me.

[redFishblue]

Reefscience had one like that and was identified as a type of acanthastrea.

[zeppelin]

I'd say Favite

[Flanders]

I agree, but it's a very unique color morph.

[Azilla]

Yeah I saw it on a website and the guy described it as a Favites but he said it could very well be an Acan. The biggest thing I noticed is the nobby polyps. I have favites and it dont look anything like that.

[zeppelin]

Here's a closeup of one of my favites. Same bumps

http://www.cofba.org/users/zeppelin/LarrysFormula/saltwater%20tank/Frags%20for%20sale/September%20pieces/favite-close.gif

[redFishblue]

Could be Acanthastrea bowerbanki
Check out this link and the second pic on top. http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/001-100/Species%20pages/1.htm

[Jordan55]

How can you tell the difference of Favia and Favites?

[Azilla]

redFishblue I think you are right on the money!

I showed him your picture and he said it was exactly the same and he didn't raise the price yet so thats a good thing :-D

[MarLooney]

not bowerbanki... not even close.

Favites...

[Azilla]

100% that its not favites... but your right its 100% not bowerbanki either. He wrote me back and said it was Acanthastrea hemprichii:

Here is a picture looks like a spot on match to me...

http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/images/501-600/Large/511-04.jpg

[redFishblue]

That was my second guess ;-)

[MarLooney]

Favites complanata?
http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/images/101-200/Large/163-03.jpg
and yes, it has bumps.

[mane3215]

Not sure what type, but I would almost lay my collection on it that its an acan. I will check further this evening, but off the top it does indeed seem like hemprichii. Any pics of exposed skeletons?

The bumps on yours aren't fleshy, they are flesh covered spikey skeleton. Unlike favites.

[davejnz]

Originally posted by Jordan55
How can you tell the difference of Favia and Favites?
The corallites of Favia are plocoid(individual amd seperate from each other),the corallites of Faviites are ceriod(shared common wall)

[MarLooney]

Originally posted by mane3215
Not sure what type, but I would almost lay my collection on it that its an acan. I will check further this evening, but off the top it does indeed seem like hemprichii. Any pics of exposed skeletons?

The bumps on yours aren't fleshy, they are flesh covered spikey skeleton. Unlike favites.

Azilla sent a piece to Veron and it was ID'd as "not Acan"... OK... give up your collection. you still got my addy right? :lol:

[mane3215]

Originally posted by MarLooney
Azilla sent a piece to Veron and it was ID'd as "not Acan"... OK... give up your collection. you still got my addy right? :lol:

What who said that? I lied about my collection eheh. I still doubt its not acan.

[vpham24]

Looks like it's an Echinata. I got one just like that.

<img src="http://www.airbill.com/gallery/img/pict0844.jpg">

[brahm]

i concure

[Mantis]

I agree with the acan. id.

[Azilla]

brahm do you concure with what what mane3215 said? :-P Ok looks like my work here is done.

[brahm]

take a photo of it not so close, as of now i'm thinking echinata.

[Azilla]

They aren't my photos, I got it off of the guy/gal that runs the website. Here is the link to the coral http://fragpacks.com/products.php?id=53