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Originally posted by vaporize
You mean the main body of it showing a darker pattern and a lighter pattern? I actually believe that's the coral's natural color pattern as suppose to a single color body like most of the aussie stuff. Most aussie elegance only come in with a single color for the whole body, at most it has lines that are going outwards like yours.
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Most of the corals with the meandering skeletal structures have these lines that radiate out from the mouths to the fringe of tentacles like spokes in a wheel. This does not differ between the corals from the Indo Pacific and Australia. It differs between corals with cone shaped skeletons and meandering skeletons. Regardless of where they are from. Even in these corals you can still see the brown zooxanthellae between the green lines. They just have a different pattern of green photosynthetic proteins. These corals still have the two basic colors that are caused by the same things as the colors of all other Elegance corals.