New LPS Coral questions

Susan Edwards · Feb 22, 2022

Picked up a few new LPS corals this weekend. I'd like confirmation of types. The 2 favias have a lot of space between each head so not sure they are favias. Or another type of brain coral--like pineapples? The pictinia I hope is healthy. Flesh looks receded since I brought it home. Plate coral (big as my hand!) is looking good. Not as many tentacles on the side closest to the glass though. Welcome comments and names of the corals.

1. Favia

2. Favia

3. Rainbow Pictinia

4. Plate. Lots of tentacles on the top half. Not as many on bottom. Maybe it needs shifted up on the sand a bit for more flow to the bottom (glass side)?

blaxsun · Feb 22, 2022

The second favia looks more like a chalice, but if they sold it as a favia it's probably a favia. The plates I have all preferred being placed higher up on the rocks.

Susan Edwards · Feb 22, 2022

blaxsun said:
The second favia looks more like a chalice, but if they sold it as a favia it's probably a favia. The plates I have all preferred being placed higher up on the rocks.

I thought plates move. If they feel like it. Per lfs guy. That plate is so huge, I don't have anywhere flat that is large enough! Maybe sort of sideways on the right side of tank, but was planning on euphillia over there. It's also curved so the hard bottom would be hard to glue down. It's literally bigger than my hand. Share a pic of yours! Would love to see

All the pics of favia, the heads are touching, and don't have all that space between. I'm not sure they said it was a favia or I just assumed they were. Why I'm looking for clarification on them. Love the colors. Need to figure out where to put them.

blaxsun · Feb 22, 2022

Susan Edwards said:
I thought plates move. If they feel like it. Per lfs guy. That plate is so huge, I don't have anywhere flat that is large enough! Maybe sort of sideways on the right side of tank, but was planning on euphillia over there. It's also curved so the hard bottom would be hard to glue down. It's literally bigger than my hand. Share a pic of yours! Would love to see

All the pics of favia, the heads are touching, and don't have all that space between. I'm not sure they said it was a favia or I just assumed they were. Why I'm looking for clarification on them. Love the colors. Need to figure out where to put them.

Apparently they can, although I have a hard time envisioning this myself. We have a fairly large (5-6" diameter) fat tentacle and a smaller (2.5-3") neon orange plate (not entirely sure what mind). I need to find another orange filter before I can take any kind of decent image (broke mine trying to fix it).

blaxsun · Feb 22, 2022

The second "favia" looks more like one of the chalices at my LFS and less like the favia I bought a while back.

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mdb_talon · Feb 22, 2022

Plates most definetely can move(they inflate and will be taken by current). In anything but the lowest flow it is a risk to put them anywhere but sandbed. Even there they can move, but much less likely to have it end up upside down.