Well, maybe the button trachy wasn‘t actually a trachyphyllia. The reefkeeping hobby misidentifies corals a lot. Yesterday, I saw a colonial cycloseris misidentified as a lithophyllon. Also, I don’t think we have seen the bottom of this coral.
He said it was cone shaped.
yeah, but we don't know how the cone looks like. Remember that other corals have coned bottoms also. Phaceloid corals, including acanthastrea pachysepta, can also have cone shaped bottoms, because of how they grow.
I'd like to see it at night. I think it should be easy to tell a trachy from any lobo from feeding behavior.
Remember that it's a pachysepta and not a lobo.
I'm asking in order to rule out one of the chpices. I'm an old guy who's done this a year or 40 and with the exception of a few the trachys have a more semantically cone. Nearly 45 degree angle. Lobos I've had long enough to get big have loose semetry. I'm sure there are corals I haven seen I'll just stop guessing. Good luck finding out. I'm curious. :)
