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Old 08/16/2006, 05:04 PM
Elliott89 Elliott89 is offline
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Id Needed On Weird Lps?

Got this cheap due to the damage but i dont know what it is?

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Old 08/16/2006, 05:23 PM
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Hello mate
Has it more than one mouth??
Could be a scolymia (If it has one mouth)!!!
Looks like a lobo brain too me in a bad way as the skeleton is showing but start feeding it on brine and mysis then onto chopped up silversides and it might recover.
Looks like a nice one
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Old 08/16/2006, 05:25 PM
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Ollie you can have a look for yourself next week

It appears to have just the one mouth!
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Old 08/16/2006, 05:44 PM
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Will do mate, But someone on here will have a better idea as they see alot more of these than we do in the UK !
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Old 08/16/2006, 05:51 PM
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looks like a scolymia or cynarina, either way a great find if it makes it
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Old 08/16/2006, 05:53 PM
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I think it's a Lobo also. If what I'm seeing is what I think they are there are three mouths on that bad boy. The three spots in in the center disk where the orange color comes to a brighter point. I keep in on the bottom of the tank for now in a lowwer flow area. Try turing off the pumps and putting some mysis where the inner and outter disks come together this should give you a feeding response which in turn should show you how many mouths. Hope it recovers....it looks like it could be a very impressive piece.

Here is a good website to ID it with. I think you have enough skeletal structure showing to ID it between a Lobo, scolymia or cynarina. I think the "teeth" are to far apart to be a scolymia, and a cynarina has distintive pattern on the "teeth". You should have a much better idea though seeing it in person. HTH

http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/coralid_search.php
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Old 08/16/2006, 09:21 PM
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I am thinking lobo. How large in diamiter is it?
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Old 08/17/2006, 04:28 AM
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i'd say lobo
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Old 08/18/2006, 12:55 AM
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Skeleton looks like either Scoly or Lobo but the tissue looks alot like a gold Lobo.
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