Possible ID please .

JBG · #1 02/26/2007, 03:57 PM

Hormigaquatica · #2 02/26/2007, 05:58 PM

Could be Echinophyllia, Mycedium, or Oxypora. Ill guess it to be a species of Echinophyllia.

JBG · #3 02/27/2007, 04:36 PM

Bought it as a mycedium I think either that or merulina .

Hormigaquatica · #4 02/27/2007, 05:10 PM

definitly not Merulina. Mycedium is a possibility, but the growth pattern ("eye" orientation) doesnt look quite right. Growth pattern isnt all that definitive though.
Your best bets for husbandry are to provide moderate light- halides are often too intense unless shaded- and moderate water flow.

al abaqueta · #5 02/27/2007, 05:23 PM

Looks like a mycedium. It has the "elephant nose" bumps, and it looks like it is plating. Does it have long sweeping tentacles at night? Al

baja_01 · #6 02/27/2007, 07:27 PM

My vote is for Echinophyllia, one that has had some crazy and twisted growth. Give it a year or two to grow out some and it will show the structure better. The eyes look too full to be mycedium to me.

GMAX · #7 02/28/2007, 09:17 PM

Mycedium is very distinctive, every eye will be facing towards the edge of the coral ( not straight up ). Its not merulina either and be glad they have the worst sting of any LPS and may kill not so close by corals. It looks like an echino to me.

Nagel · #8 02/28/2007, 10:06 PM

I agree its an echino..

chrisstie · #9 02/28/2007, 10:47 PM

As some of my friends say "echinosomethingorother" is the scientific name

Hormigaquatica · #10 02/28/2007, 11:06 PM

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Originally posted by chrisstie
As some of my friends say "echinosomethingorother" is the scientific name

Haha.. Ive got one of those too... only I bought it from a vendor who listed it as Oxywhatthehell

chrisstie · #11 03/01/2007, 08:24 AM

haha i love it

Justin74 · #12 03/01/2007, 12:10 PM

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Originally posted by GMAX
Mycedium is very distinctive, every eye will be facing towards the edge of the coral ( not straight up ). Its not merulina either and be glad they have the worst sting of any LPS and may kill not so close by corals. It looks like an echino to me.

I agree and was trying to rule out mycedium on that characterstic, but the growth combined with the encrusting of the rock makes the growth very irregular and harder to cross it out. For ex. the few polyps by the hermit crab in the top right, one of them is sloped and facing out just like a mycedium, for the most part they all do, and definately not as sporatic as an echino aiming this way and that. The coralites in the center are raised and pointing up, true but, mycedium also do this where they're originating from, or the starting point in there growth so to speak.

I dont think we'll ever know........

-Justin