I've seen an emergence of these little mini-scolys (button scoly) around, and I'm trying to get some more info on them, and what exactly they are. Thanks!
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So with enough time, proper parameters and feeding should they get to 5-7" across like their larger brethren?I have two; they are just small scoly's.
They're a different species than the more commonly seen Aussie Scolymia australis or Indo Parascolymia vitiensis. Veron had no idea what the actual species was, but confirmed they weren't formally described to his knowledge.
They haven't been seen in nature much bigger than a quarter, and none have been in captivity long enough to determine full grown size [to my knowledge], so I suspect they'll stay dwarfed by S. australis.
For what it's worth they do not get along with other species of Scolymia.
Cherry Corals has some really cool one's I saw the other day.
It would be nice If more people who had these in their system to tell us how what they think of them. I've not seen aggressive behaviour sp far. One is placed in my display between 2 lordhowensis acans and has so far not had any warfare with either. The other is still in my frag tank and has been next to zoas and again i haven't had any issues from it
To my knowledge, yes. I was told a fish collector stumbled upon them at one point.Weren't they recently discovered (i.e. within the past ten years or so)?