Coral Database on R2R??

[revhtree]

No, no not at all. Just looking for more info to draw more people to the site. Can't compare to coralpedia they are the BOMB!

 

[bamachamp92]

hey dave maybe we could talk to todrick and put pics of the sps skeletons of each type on there also lol

:king: you know the self proclaimed sps king.

 

[ahayes13]

i agree that a coral forum with ids, common and scietific names, as well as requirements is a GREAT idea!

 

[revhtree]

hey dave maybe we could talk to todrick and put pics of the sps skeletons of each type on there also lol

:king: you know the self proclaimed sps king.

:hammer: Awesome!

 

[FaviaFreak]

Australian Prism Favia
Submitted by: Faviafreak
Scientific Name: Favia Rosaria
Family: Faviidae
Behavior: Passive
Hosts Zooxanthellae: yes

Water current: Medium/Low
Iodine supplement: Helpful during fragging and tissue damage
Calcium Supplement: yes
Trace Elements Supplement: yes (usually regular water changes will suffice)
Feeding: Will accept a variety of meaty foods
Lighting: Low intensity under Metal Halide Lamps/ shading will often help to produce good colors
Growth: Moderate
Placement: Low to shaded under Metal Halides/T-5 lighting will give you better placement options
Care level: Moderate Care needed

Description: These beauties just explode with color. Colonies are submassive to encrusting and often up to one meter across in the wild. Corallites are crowded, up to 20 millimeters diameter, and have low walls. Extratentacular budding is common. Septo-costa are uniform, not exsert. Septa have fine teeth. Paliform lobes are inconspicuous. The wild habitat are shallow reef slopes. At one time was a rarity in the hobby but has become quite common. Weekly feeding of meaty foods will help with growth and coloration, seems to produce it's best coloration in low intensity light under metal halide lamps.

 

[FaviaFreak]

JenDub Big Mouth War Coral aka War Coral
Submitted by: Faviafreak
Scientific Name: Favia Pentagona
Family: Faviidae
Behavior: can sting if provoked by other corals
Hosts Zooxanthellae: yes

Water current: Medium/Low
Iodine supplement: Helpful during fragging and tissue damage
Calcium Supplement: yes
Trace Elements Supplement: yes (usually regular water changes will suffice)
Feeding: Will accept a variety of meaty foods
Lighting: Medium/Low intensity under Metal Halide Lamps
Growth: Moderate to fast
Placement: Midway to low
Care level: Moderate Care needed

Description: Colonies in the wild are submassive to encrusting, sometimes forming irregular columns. They commonly exceed one meter across. Corallites are thin walled and angular. Septa are few in number. Paliform lobes are well developed, commonly forming a conspicuous crown. Similar species include Favites Bestae and Favites Micropentagona. Habitat in the wild are shallow reef enviroments. A favorite amongst hobbyist

 

[FaviaFreak]

Tyree Pastel War & Peace Coral
Submitted by: Faviafreak
Scientific Name: Favia Pentagona
Family: Faviidae
Behavior: Passive
Hosts Zooxanthellae: yes

Water current: Medium/Low
Iodine supplement:helpful during fragging and tissue damage
Calcium Supplement: yes
Trace Elements Supplement: yes (usually regular water changes will suffice)
Feeding: Will accept a variety of meaty foods
Lighting:Medium/Low intensity under Metal Halide Lamps
Growth: Moderate
Placement: Lower portion of the tank
Care level: Moderate Care needed

Description: One of the most beautiful and sought after favia in the hobby. Colonies in the wild are submassive to encrusting, sometimes forming irregular columns. They commonly exceed one meter across. Corallites are thin walled and angular. Septa are few in number. Paliform lobes are well developed, commonly forming a conspicuous crown. Similar species include Favites Bestae and Favites Micropentagona. The habitat of Favites Pentagona in the wild are shallow reef enviroments. Weekly feedings of meaty foods are readily accpeted and help to encourage growth and coloration

 

[FaviaFreak]

Micromussa aka Mics
Submitted by: faviafreak
Scientific Name: Micromussa Amakusensis
Family: Mussidae
Behavior: Passive
Hosts Zooxanthellae: yes
Color variatons: They come in a Rainbow of colors

Water current: Medium/Low (low being the better of the two)
Iodine supplement:helpful during fragging and tissue damage
Calcium Supplement: yes
Trace Elements Supplement: yes (usually regular water changes will suffice)
Feeding: Will accept a variety of meaty foods
Lighting: Low
Growth: Moderate/Fast
Placement: Lower portion of the tank
Care level: Moderate Care needed

Description: In the wild colonies are ceroid with neat angular corllites up to 8 millimeters in diameter. Septa have 1-3 large teeth. Colonies have a thick fleshly mantle usually covered with fine papillae. Similar species include Acanthastrea Lordhowensis, which has larger, less uniform corallites containing more septa. Their wild habitat consist of protected reef enviroments and rocky foreshores. Low flow/light seem to work best in captive conditions

 

[FaviaFreak]

Bazooka Joe Chalice aka Watermelon Chalice
Submitted by: Faviafreak
Scientific Name: Echinophyllia
Family: Pectiniidae
Behavior: Passive
Hosts Zooxanthellae: yes

Water current:Moderate/Low
Iodine supplement: Helpful during fragging and tissue damage
Calcium Supplement: yes
Trace Elements Supplement: yes (usually regular water changes will suffice)
Feeding: Will accept meaty foods
Lighting: Medium/Low intensity under Metal Halide Lamps
Growth: Slow
Placement: Lower portion of the tank
Care level: Moderate Care needed

Description: The one and only Bazooka Joe Chalice, the supply definitely can't keep up with the demand for this beauty, on just about everybody's wish list...In the wild colonies are encrusting or laminar. Calices are round or oval, immersed to tubular and not strongly inclined on the colony surface. Septa are usually numerous. Columellae are usually well developed. The coenosteum is pitted at the commencement of new septo-costae. Tentacles are extended only at night. Echinophyllia is readily confused with Oxypora and also resembles Mycedium and Favid Echinopora. Commonly found in most reef enviroments. Has been shown that with Watermelon Chalice's moderate lighting tends to draw out their best colors. Additionally supplemented spot feedings of meaty foods will help to encourage growth

samples of typical Bazooka Joe frag

 

[racermike27]

Wow, this will be a very helpful thread!!! Great additions so far!

 

[FaviaFreak]

If anybody has good clear pictures of corals (ie. Mummy Eye, Ponape Torch Stag, Mia's Pot of Gold Favia, Lime in the Sky, etc..) then feel free to email them to [email protected] and I will gladly use them for reference shot's on the database...I know you got them so please send them

we're trying to bulid up the database so there are hundereds of corals we need pictures for

 

[revhtree]

Awesome stuff!

When this starts filling up we will move it to a dedicated page.

 

[ahayes13]

Duncan Coral
Submitted by: ahayes13
Scientific Name: Duncanopsammia axifuga aka Duncans/ Whisker Coral
Family: Dendrophyllidae

Behavior: peaceful
Hosts Zooxanthellae: yes
Color variatons: tentacles grey or green, mouth green to blue

Needs:
Water current: low to moderate
Iodine supplement: yes
Calcium Supplement: yes to maintain proper skeletal growth
Trace Elements Supplement: yes, regular water changes
Needs meaty foods: yes
Needs Phytoplankton: yes
Needs Microplankton: no
Lighting: low to high. should be started in lower portion of tank and then acclimated to higher lighting, will adjust to higher lighting if acclimated over time
Care level: easy

Likes meaty foods: yes
Likes Phytoplankton: yes
Likes Microplankton: yes

Description: Wild specimens are usually found in deep water and sandy bottoms. In the aquarium they can grow very quickly but must have correct calcium and alkalinity levels for correct skeletal growth. Will also grow quickly when fed regularly (2 to 3x a week) with meaty foods that fit into its mouth when its tentacles are expanded. Tentacles may be open during both day and night. New polyps usually grow next to exsisiting heads. They can be fragged or propagated by cutting the stem to seperate the polyps. They can be attached in the aquarium to rockwork using epoxy.

 

[92GallonReefer]

Rev I found these when i was browsing around last night. they may need a little updating but its a good start. https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=142

 

[cee]

Sorry, been out of the loop on this one for a few. If you want growth forms, you're also going to need a primer or glossary to define what words like plocoid mean (even though most on here have corals with plocoid corallite arrangement). Here's a good reference with nice pictures:
http://krupp.wcc.hawaii.edu/BIOL200/powerpnt/corlanat/sld001.htm
I just envision a lot of hobbyists going glossy-eyed over a bunch of latin scientific terms and that defeating the purpose of your database.

Dave

 

[ahayes13]

Frogspawn Coral
Submitted by: ahayes13
Scientific Name: Euphyllia divisia
Family: Caryophylliidae

Behavior: aggressive
Hosts Zooxanthellae: yes
Color variatons: green, purple, tan, brown

Needs:
Water current: low to moderate. do not place to high current area
Iodine supplement: yes
Calcium Supplement: yes to maintain proper skeletal growth
Trace Elements Supplement: yes, strontium

Needs meaty foods: yes
Needs Phytoplankton: yes
Needs Microplankton: yes
Lighting: low to high
Care level: moderate

Likes meaty foods: yes
Likes Phytoplankton: yes
Likes Microplankton: yes

Description: Beautiful coral that creates a hard skeletal base covered with a delicate "skin" with soft bubble tipped branches. Due to the fact that it closely resembles anenomes clown fish will many times host this coral. Frogspawn should be given several inches between itself and other corals as it has sweeper tentacles that come out several inches at night, which will sting nearby corals. Different variations of frogspawn and hammer coral may be kept near eachother, since they will not sting eachother. Torch corals may also be kept near the frogspawn, but with caution. Some torch corals may not sting the frogspawn but others may so keep a close eye on it, should you decide to put them together. Frogspawn also has been known to contract the brown jelly disease. Be sure when purchasing a new specimen to look it over carefully while in the water and look for a brown jelly like substance that may appear to be floating over the coral. Also make sure to purchase a specimen that looks healthy and no damage to its skin, which may attribute tot he brown jelly diease.
You may consider purchasing this coral at a lfs as it is generally a poor shipper.

 

[FaviaFreak]

Sorry, been out of the loop on this one for a few. If you want growth forms, you're also going to need a primer or glossary to define what words like plocoid mean (even though most on here have corals with plocoid corallite arrangement). Here's a good reference with nice pictures:
http://krupp.wcc.hawaii.edu/BIOL200/powerpnt/corlanat/sld001.htm
I just envision a lot of hobbyists going glossy-eyed over a bunch of latin scientific terms and that defeating the purpose of your database.

Dave

agreed, I think I will put a page that contains definitions for a lot of the scientific terms, so as not to confuse people

 

[FaviaFreak]

Awesome Job Amanda, keep em coming if you got more

 

[ahayes13]

Daisy Polyps
Submitted by: ahayes13
Scientific Name: Clavularia
Family: Clavulariidae

Behavior: peaceful
Hosts Zooxanthellae: yes
Color variatons: green, tan, white, purple

Needs:
Water current: moderate to high
Iodine supplement: yes
Calcium Supplement: no
Trace Elements Supplement: yes

Needs meaty foods: no
Needs Phytoplankton: no
Needs Microplankton: no
Lighting: low to high
Care level: easy, excellent beginner coral

Likes meaty foods: no
Likes Phytoplankton: no
Likes Microplankton: yes

Description: Beautiful easy to keep and fast growing coral. Resemble daisy flowers. Great beginner coral.

 

[ahayes13]

Green Star Polyps (GSP)
Submitted by: ahayes13
Scientific Name: Clavularia viridis
Family: Octocorallia

Behavior: peaceful
Hosts Zooxanthellae: yes
Color variatons: green, tan, white

Needs:
Water current: moderate
Iodine supplement: yes
Calcium Supplement: no
Trace Elements Supplement: yes

Needs meaty foods: no
Needs Phytoplankton: no
Needs Microplankton: no
Lighting: medium to high
Care level: easy, excellent beginner coral

Likes meaty foods: no
Likes Phytoplankton: no
Likes Microplankton: yes

Description: Small green polyps that are connected together at the base by a purple mat. Very quick growing coral and excellent beginner coral. Polyps are open during the day and are usually retracted at night. Although a nice coral is one of the few corals that hobbyist many times regret putting in their tanks. This is due to how quickly it grows and may encrust over nearby corals. Coral may be propagated by cutting a piece of the purple mat with razor and attaching to new rock using superglue.