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Originally posted by Just Jim
If it's what I think it is then you got a sweet deal. The only meteor shower I know of is an echino. Baby blue with red polyps. I think vivid aquarium sells them.
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Actually, it is not an Echino, but a Cyphastrea species as someone said already. This particular morph of C. Occelina , the Atlantis Meteor Shower Chyphastrea, will lose it's nice blue base color and much of the pop from the polyp color if it is put in bright light. It does well in low, indirect light. If you prefer to have the base color and polyps washed out, and the polyps not extended, by all means put it up high.
Atomikk- The green cyphastrea that is typically imported i s a shallow water species that does much better under bright lighting than this particular morph. I have a solid green one, and a green base with orange polyps, the solid one does ok under any lighting I have tried, the one with the orange polyps only does well under low lighting. Turns ugly brown if too high up.