Acanthastrea Ishigakiensis
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Sea MunnKey
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Japanese Acan?? Sweeett!! Thanks for showing..:o
My pleasure. I have only met one other person who has this species of acan. Id like to find others just to see what other colors it comes in. A local has a piece thats silver with green mouths. He said his looked like mine until he put it under a 400W halide, mine's under a 250 kind of in the shade.
It would be fallacious to say I know anyting for sure. My conclusion was drawn from pictures I've seen of what I think it is and other corals that it could be. This coral in particular has irregularly shapped coralites and really long flesh covered points all over. By the overall appearance I think it is safe to say its an acan of some sort. Its more textured than an echinata and it doesnt plate like a rotundoflora. Its clearly not a lord and maximas dont actually exist;) (maybe, just not in america) it doesnt have uniformly round corallites so its probably not a subechinata or faviaformis. Whats left? brevis, hille, hemprichi and ishi I think. Hille and hemprichi usually have smaller coralites, this coral having single corallites that ae more than 1", and brevis... well you get the picture.
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really hard to determine its origin unless you know who collected it. i know japan buys alot of colorful coral from indo. if you saw em, you'd probably call em japanese but they come from indo.
Patwa
Zig-Zag pro since '96
nice coral :) reminds me of an unidentified orange acan i have...i know it's somewhat similar to an echinata...but then again, there's a few things about it that don't add up.
curious....have you asked a noted expert on corals to give his opinion on what this is?...Calfo, Borneman, Shimek, etc..?? ....i can't put much faith in any regular joe reefer (not even myself, for that matter!) ID'ing a coral based on books and/or simple elimination...it really boils down to seeing the actual dead skeleton or finding someone with exceptional knowledge on the species
Zach.
minibowmatt
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what motivation would those professionals mentioned have to give you false info?
They could tell you what it is, and be almost certain...
They could tell you what it is, and be almost certain...
jendub
Reefer Extraordinaire
I have seen this one in trade a couple times and in my opinion, it is about 90% ishi. My friend had a wicked white with a green eye one that I loved drooling over.
Hope this helps.=)
Septa are mostly uniform, with large teeth. Colonies have thick fleshy tissue over the skeleton. Colour: Uniform blue-grey or mixtures of grey, brown, cream and green, usually with mouth, oral disc and walls of contrasting colours. Underwater colors will vary from tank lights...brown is purple etc,.
Similar species: Acanthastrea hillae, which has smaller corallites with a tendency to form valleys. Resembles Symphyllia erythraea underwater.
Habitat: Shallow, partly protected reef environments.
Abundance: Uncommon but conspicuous.
Hope this helps.=)
Septa are mostly uniform, with large teeth. Colonies have thick fleshy tissue over the skeleton. Colour: Uniform blue-grey or mixtures of grey, brown, cream and green, usually with mouth, oral disc and walls of contrasting colours. Underwater colors will vary from tank lights...brown is purple etc,.
Similar species: Acanthastrea hillae, which has smaller corallites with a tendency to form valleys. Resembles Symphyllia erythraea underwater.
Habitat: Shallow, partly protected reef environments.
Abundance: Uncommon but conspicuous.
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