help identify these corals please

[aliyesami]

please take a look at the picture , the two beautiful corals in front pointed out by yellow arrows , what are they .. scolymia or Lobophyllia ?

thanks

 

[AcroNem]

My first thought is trachyphyllia.

 

[saltyhog]

Agree with AcroNem. Definitely not lobo or scoly. Look like trachyphyllia to me.

 

[aliyesami]

I googled the trachyphyllia pics and doesn't look similar to mine .
my corals have a large amount of flesh on them and have a conical pointed base .

 

[Zane]

I'll just leave this here.
https://www.google.com/search?q=WES...kJvKAhVE7SYKHVMCCc8Q_AUICCgC&biw=1920&bih=979

 

[aliyesami]

I'll just leave this here.
https://www.google.com/search?q=WES...kJvKAhVE7SYKHVMCCc8Q_AUICCgC&biw=1920&bih=979

well in your link I see all sorts of corals scoly, half open brain, Acans etc.

 

[aliyesami]

I thought corals are well identified and distinct from each other but apparently not ?
so there are coral species that are hard to be placed into one or another group?

 

[Zane]

well in your link I see all sorts of corals scoly, half open brain, Acans etc.

but mostly welso brains, right

 

[KJ]

Scolymia vitiensis ( doughnut coral)?

 

[aliyesami]

but mostly welso brains, right

so you think my coral is Welso brain ?

 

[aliyesami]

Scolymia vitiensis ( doughnut coral)?

Scolymia vitensis looks very different from my corals. .
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Scolymia+vitiensis+

 

[Zane]

so you think my coral is Welso brain ?

yes

 

[aliyesami]

yes

then which is this coral in red circle ? I thought this was Welso open brain !

 

[Zane]

then which is this coral in red circle ? I thought this was Welso open brain !

They both look like welsos to me, just different variations

 

[aliyesami]

yes

then which is this coral in red circle ? I thought this was Welso open brain !

They both look like welsos to me, just different variations

so all three large corals in the pic are Welso brain?

 

[AcroNem]

Yes, the flesh is highly inflated but the skeleton looks like a trachyphyllia/welsophyllia, they're technically the same.

 

[aliyesami]

but the front two corals have both tanticles but the one in back has no tanticles ..still same?

 

[AcroNem]

How often do you feed them? They do still look similar but the one's in the front want fed haha.

 

[aliyesami]

How often do you feed them? They do still look similar but the one's in the front want fed haha.

Iol what you talking about these guys are huge .. about 8 inches in dia meter . I feed them krill and shrimps three times a week.

 

[AcroNem]

I only asked because their feeding tentacles were out. They're obviously fat and happy.