Can someone help me id this coral please.

[IMegaSquirt]

I bought this frag for $20 from my LFS. He said that his distributor sent it to him but he didnt order it nor did he know what it was. If anyone could please id it for me so I know what it is and where to place it as far as flow and light I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance!

 

[IMegaSquirt]

The polyps look green in the pic but they look more yellow (ish) in person

 

[IKD]

If I had to guess, I would say it's some type of Lithophyllon coral, but defer to other experts that are smarter than me...

https://www.tankfacts.com/coral/lithophyllon/kiwi-litho_1508
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/red-and-gold-litho.44874/

 

[X-37B]

I bought this frag for $20 from my LFS. He said that his distributor sent it to him but he didnt order it nor did he know what it was. If anyone could please id it for me so I know what it is and where to place it as far as flow and light I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance!

Whatever it is its cool looking!

 

[BMW540]

Pavona

 

[IMegaSquirt]

I dont think that the polyps are right for a pavona. It has what looks like little yellow hairs.

 

[BMW540]

I dont think that the polyps are right for a pavona. It has what looks like little yellow hairs.

Look up “freak hair pavona” and you may reconsider....

 

[IMegaSquirt]

Ha, your right. All the pavona that came up in a google search didnt look like that. But now that you gave the name for me to search that is exactly what it is. Thank you very much!

 

[C. Eymann]

Look up “freak hair pavona” and you may reconsider....

Thats the problem with comic book names and some vendors, the "species" at the end of the= "rainbow watermelon blah, blah blah" is sometimes incorrect.

This is not pavona, its likely psammocora.


BMW 540i eh? I used to own a 2002 e39 540i M-sport
loved it! I sold my old STi to buy a Chevy SS sedan (holden commadore) simply because many car reviewers/ test drivers said it reminded them of the e39 M5.
Seems like many, if not most, reefers are also car fanatics.

 

[sinfulreefer]

Thats the problem with comic book names and some vendors, the "species" at the end of the= "rainbow watermelon blah, blah blah" is sometimes incorrect.

This is not pavona, its likely psammocora.


BMW 540i eh? I used to own a 2002 e39 540i M-sport
loved it! I sold my old STi to buy a Chevy SS sedan (holden commadore) simply because many car reviewers/ test drivers said it reminded them of the e39 M5.
Seems like many, if not most, reefers are also car fanatics.

This is for sure a pavonna . This is a jf freak hair pavonna . I own a pretty nice sized chunk of this coral !

 

[sinfulreefer]

I bought this frag for $20 from my LFS. He said that his distributor sent it to him but he didnt order it nor did he know what it was. If anyone could please id it for me so I know what it is and where to place it as far as flow and light I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance!

Jf Freak hair pavonna got some myself!

 

[nano reef]

How do these grow? Do they encrust?

 

[PeterErc]

If I had to guess, I would say it's some type of Lithophyllon coral, but defer to other experts that are smarter than me...

https://www.tankfacts.com/coral/lithophyllon/kiwi-litho_1508
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/red-and-gold-litho.44874/

I am with you on the litho, just as I am certain JFFH isn’t a pavona.

Maybe it’s orange star polyps

 

[thamnasteroid]

Cycloseris wellsi/explanulata

 

[PeterErc]

Cycloseris wellsi/explanulata

Using time at work very efficiently.
Did some searching around the web. Cycloseris explanata is the best match with the pictures. The freak hair I posted above is my reference. It did look different under lower lighting.
I will post the link I borrowed the pic and info from.

So yea, vendors, hobbyists and scientists can say a coral is a (blank). Then later the same coral gets reclassified by some other scientists under a different name.

Wait!! Are we sure that the scientists aren’t the ones making up all the silly names for the same coral?

Off topic but I have had a coral for years, not pretty or bright, just different. Haven’t see one around like it, again not pretty or bright may be why. Anyway it most likely is Lithophyllon undulatum.


Fig. 4. A, Cycloseris explanulata at Porter Patch; B, Cycloseris wellsi at Abana Rock, north; C, Cycloseris mokai at Littledale Shoal, south; D, Lithophyllon scabra at Hornet Reef (Brunei Patches); E, Lithophyllon concinna at Abana Rock, south; F, Lithophyllon repanda at Abana Rock, north; G, Lithophyllon undulatum at Abana Rock, south; H, Halomitra pileus at Abana Rock, south; I, Danafungia horrida at Pelong Rocks, northeast; J, Danafungia scruposa at Pelong Rocks, southwest; K, Fungia fungites at Abana Rock, south.

https://zenodo.org/records/5354584