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Old 03/30/2005, 12:15 AM
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i believe its of the 60 freeway exit nogales across the street from nogales high school...in west covina
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Old 03/30/2005, 12:19 AM
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Wow that piece is nice..
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Old 03/30/2005, 01:25 AM
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Wow that piece is nice..
Yeah real nice
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Old 03/30/2005, 10:52 AM
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Sweet piece....now that Mussa on the website looks awefull familiar
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Old 03/30/2005, 03:36 PM
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in case anyone was wondering what it looks like when acan lord attacks a cyphastrea ocellina frag...
ouch...
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Old 03/31/2005, 06:28 PM
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first picture one day after the being hammered and seperated from its siblings!
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Old 03/31/2005, 06:32 PM
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micro or acan? the mouth seems much deeper than the other micro piece that i have, and the polyps swell up much bigger, almost looks like its different, here is a close up view of it. at first i thought it was a micromussa, upon closer examination and feeding, they have more feeding tenticles and swell up bigger, the polyp size are increasing. the colony is half with green eyes, and the other half is solid red.

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Old 03/31/2005, 06:35 PM
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wow...really awesome piece there. micros have polyps that are up to 8mm...so if they're bigger than that...probably not a micro. http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/coralid_search.php
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Old 03/31/2005, 08:52 PM
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wow! fugupuf those are bad arse!!!
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Old 03/31/2005, 09:37 PM
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Fugu, try to poke it a little and get a shot with the polyps closed
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Old 03/31/2005, 09:55 PM
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hey bugsy, which one would you like me to poke? the micro looking one? hmmm...that is a bit closed, its normally really puffy...but yeah, i'll do that in a bit
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Old 03/31/2005, 11:34 PM
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originally posted by bugsy
"Fugu, try to poke it a little and get a shot with the polyps closed"

I think someone should poke bugsy to see if they can get his polyp to close! LOL





I am totally just kidding, please don't take it seriously.
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Old 04/01/2005, 12:39 AM
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Good one Fugu.

I say micro amak based on shape and size of polyp walls. Acan lords should have polyps easily bigger than any one of your fingers even when not plump (unless they are babies of course).

By the way, corallites up to 8mm, not polyps.
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Old 04/01/2005, 12:41 AM
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Sweet piece Fugu!!

Send me a frag

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Old 04/01/2005, 01:50 AM
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Polyp size is an unreliable indicator, I have tiny lords that look like micros, then I have micros that look like tiny lords.

If you get a retracted shot you'll have a better chance at a definite id (without a skeleton shot)
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Old 04/01/2005, 03:11 AM
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fugu it is for sure a micro, I am 98% sure. Nice looking
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Old 04/01/2005, 03:17 AM
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Bugsy, I agree. I too have lords with polyp sizes like Micros and the other way around. But this, to me, looks like a pretty big colony. Even the biggest polyp shown is roughly half the size of a finger.

If you look closely at the second shot, lower left, the polyps are pretty much retracted. You can make out some of the skeletal walls of the corallites that are pretty angular, something you don't see much in Lords.

Well, then again, I'm no expert. Just a guess.

Don't frag this one Fugu, it would be a shame...
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Old 04/01/2005, 11:03 AM
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When acans attack!!

These guys are atleast 3-4" apart, I didn't know that they could attack from so far away.






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Old 04/01/2005, 11:44 AM
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Acanthastrea enchinata - My first one




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Old 04/01/2005, 07:57 PM
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tood those are so awsome i want some like that even though they arent acans
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Old 04/01/2005, 08:00 PM
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uh...gemini...sorry to burst your bubble but the pics he posted ARE acanthastrea(subechinata). i just realized that maybe that was a real sorry attempt at a april fool's day joke. lol.
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Old 04/01/2005, 08:25 PM
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danny leave the kid alone lol
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Old 04/01/2005, 09:11 PM
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Sorry this pic took so long. Dumb little polyp just tumbles around the sandbed. Finally it landed in a half way good spot to take a picture of.

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Old 04/01/2005, 10:21 PM
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Cool Amy, looks like a little polyp bailed out
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Old 04/01/2005, 10:51 PM
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