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Is this acanthastrea?
Hi y'all,
This coral was sold to me as red acanthastrea. I really don't know what it is, though. Can someone id this? It is a very fast growing coral. Tomoko |
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id say it looks like favia.
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agree on the favia comment. in order to id an acan you really need to look at the skeleton structure. i just read an article about iding acans and how they have really been around for a while but were never id'd correctly and sold under different coral names. hth.
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I'd guess on favia too
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It cannot be a favia. The corallites of favia do not share the common walls like this one's. If this is a type of Faviidae, it is more like a favites or a goniastrea, don't you think?
Tomoko |
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no clue...is it that red in person? Beautiful piece.
edit: tomoko, it doesn't look like they are sharing walls...am I seeing that wrong? |
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Yes, it's that red. The color of the picture turned out just like the real thing.
This is what it looked like 6 months ago - not as good a picture(taken with a different camera), but you can tell how fast it grew in 6 months: Tomoko |
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kinda looks like the 2nd pic here (acan subechinata)....
http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch...0pages/784.htm |
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I first thought that it may be an Acanthastrea echinata, but my coral does not appear as fleshy as most of acans...
Tomoko |
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a little bit more descriptive would help... It appears as a favia from the first glance but after looking at the picture more closely it appears the size of the polyps is much smaller maybe Concinaraea hahazimaensis
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whatever it is, its a real nice coral. looks like its going to get huge fast
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My guess would be favites, from the pic. Very nice coloration.
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Thank you, guys.
Greystreet41 - Yes, it has shared common walls. Tomoko |
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saw this just now and thought it looked very similar...whatcha think?
http://www.reefermadness.us/RMD06087038.htm |
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Wow, that's a really pretty green favia! I am afraid that mine does not quite look like it. The favia does not share the common walls. You can see each individual polyp having its own separate wall - you can clearly see the groove between adjacent two polyps in the coral in the Reefermadness picture.
Tomoko Last edited by Tomoko Schum; 07/10/2007 at 05:51 AM. |
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Could it be Leptastrea? Heres some pics, http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...hreadid=835168
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Some of the Leptastrea look very close to what I have. Some of them also look a lot like my coral which I bought as a blastomussa.
Tomoko |
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Interesting piece, Tomoko.
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Thank you, gflat. I really love its bright red color. Actually I don't care what it is, but people ask me what it is when they see it in my tank. I thought someone here might know, but I understand that identifying a coral is a real tricky business.
An LFS here has a large colony of this coral from which this frag came. When the owner fragged it, I was really appalled about the rough way he went about it, but he assured me that it's a really fast healing and fast growing coral. True to his word, this coral is doing very well for me. Tomoko |
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Is that in Athens? If so, I may need to make a trip.
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Nope, it's in Huntsville in a shop called Lucy's Lagoon. The shop is not doing well - definitely a wrong location. I don't know how long they can keep their doors open.
Tomoko |
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I've heard of Lucy's. Huntsville is a little closer than Athens, anyway.
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