Official Acanthophyllia, Cynarina, and Indophyllia show off (and appreciation) thread!

[Mechano]

Reef roid- many consider the gold standard, but many, myself included, dislike it because it is a phosphate bomb and can cause tank issues

Benepets Benereef - I use this. It’s great. And it does not affect phosphates. It’s a cleaner powder food mix

Goniopower - I have gonipora, I add this to my mix, seems good

Brightwell Marine Blizzard S - I like this a lot also, good coral response, mixes clean

I take 1/4 teaspoon of all of these, except reef roids, and put in a cup with 2” of tank water. Then I add in a few pinches of pe mysis flake food. Yes they make flake food! It’s on Amazon. Then a squirt of either aminos or Restor. Mix well and let sit for 10 min. Mix again and slowly feed coral with baster. Torches, acans, scoly, Cynarina, dendro, and pretty much everything with a visual mouth seem to really like this combo.

Any one can be used stand alone also. But I like to take the mixture and pour it into a power head and broadcast feed the tank. Sometimes I target feed with a baster also.

Yeah , I avoid reefroids as they pack in too much phosphate. I’m with you on using benepets and also Fauna Marin coral sprint, and I also spot feed once a week with Fauna Marin anemone or LPS pellets , mysis shrimp sometimes as well. I also do add that Red Sea AB + as I tried it but I think it’s kinda meh as the acantho don’t have a major feeding reaction to it in my system.

Sounds good. I don’t see the protrusions in the seller photos, so it’s possible it’s not fully inflated yet and still stressed. Other corals that I saw this on - scoly and another Cynarina in the past - recovered from this in a few days so I started getting nervous I should take action.

I agree it looks healthy and it’s not causing a problem. I will give it more time to adjust and grow and it should get larger and not have these tips stick out anymore

It really is stunning in person, it always has this glowing gold ring around the perimeter. I suspect the inside is a golden yellow, the flesh is translucent, and when light gets inside you see the gold color through the flesh creating the illusion it’s Illuminating itself.

The sellers photo I think I found a bump from one left the longer skeletal pieces. It’s covered though. So, this should be capable of healing and inflating over them



These colors. Man. I can’t wait to see this come farther along.

I feed frozen mysis, pe mysis flake, and powder coral foods like benereef. Does Cynarina have a preferred food or something that is better suited for them?

As for the coral skeleton, I have a cynarina, acantho or some type of symphyllia (if anyone can positive ID it, that would be appreciated) that I took on rescue with its skeleton exposed months back. (It was on the verge of death) it is slowly rebounding and eating and regrowing , but there is still the same skeleton exposed like u have, but a huge improvement. At the rate these grow , I project another 6 months to year for it to completely recover.

 

[Mr_Knightley]

Been waiting for them to settle in, but I just got a new batch of (hopefully) gravids from AUS! The spawning system is set back up and I simulated the first full moon last night. With any luck, the full moon next month will be their trigger.
Incredibly excited for these guys. They're beautiful and the largest one is HUGE!
Big thanks to Gabe at @Oceanic_Gardens for hooking me up.

I will hopefully be able to get some pinks added to the broodstock. First go round I had all pinks and one green, this time it's all greens haha.

 

[Minifoot77]

I got this one but have no idea what it is...

 

[Mr_Knightley]

I got this one but have no idea what it is...

Beautiful! Definitely looks like a trachy to me though. You can tell because it's got a flat mantle with thin ridges as opposed to a rounded mantle with vesicles/bubbles.

 

[Minifoot77]

Beautiful! Definitely looks like a trachy to me though. You can tell because it's got a flat mantle with thin ridges as opposed to a rounded mantle with vesicles/bubbles.

I know If I feed it its got some tentacles that come out... and 2 mouths

 

[Mr_Knightley]

I know If I feed it its got some tentacles that come out... and 2 mouths

Yep! All LPS have feeding tentacles that come out at mealtime. It's also common for trachies to have more than one mouth.

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

I got this one but have no idea what it is...

Looks like the same color morph as my trachy

 

[Minifoot77]

Looks like the same color morph as my trachy

How much was yours?

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

How much was yours?

Got it for ~$50

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Got it for ~$50

Though mine only has one mouth

 

[Minifoot77]

Not bad mine was a rescue so free 99...

 

[Minifoot77]

Though mine only has one mouth

Mine was also doing so bad that it was clear and I didn't know what color it was when I first got it

 

[LPS Bum]

I have 5 Acanthophyllia, 4 Scolys, 3 Bubble corals, 2 Elegance, 2 Trachys and 1 Cynarina. Love my fleshy LPS.

Here’s a shot of a few of them.

 

[VintageReefer]

 

[VintageReefer]

Strange a few of mine are looking stressed today. I am on day 3 / 5 of a cipro tank treatment, and have been running light channels at 5% instead of 40% for the last 2 days. So could be related.

Aussie scoly showing filaments
Yesterday 6 am


Today 6 pm


Dipped in case of pests - none found
Ticked him off more 7:30pm



Golden Cynarina was looking stressed and retracted. Dipped in case of pests. And this guy came out from the skeletal cavities…


Also placed on a pedestal to keep off sandbed. Hour later it’s looking better


Another Cynarina showing two skeletal bone tips, but not poking through flesh.


And on top of all this my gold hammer extended a sweeper and touched my Moseleya making a small burn spot on top left


Warpaint scoly looks ok


Other Cynarina looking good


I guess the only one that really has me wondering about is the orange scoly with the filaments. Not sure why it’s showing them, I read it can be stress or feeding response or they can just do this sometimes. I will keep an eye on it. In case of sand irritation I put it on a small pedestal to elevate approx 1.5” off sand bed

 

[VintageReefer]

Doses anyone know what makes Cynarina look flat vs dome shaped?

Is it hunger, light, Something else?
I haven’t been able to figure it out and was always curious why some days I see this


And other this

 

[Mr_Knightley]

Doses anyone know what makes Cynarina look flat vs dome shaped?

Is it hunger, light, Something else?
I haven’t been able to figure it out and was always curious why some days I see this


And other this

I have no clue haha. They seem to be pretty amorphous in nature, however I have noticed that they flatten out more on the sand and tend to stay rounder/puffier when on the rocks or otherwise suspended. IMO there must be several subspecies within the species C. lacrymalis since I've had dozens that behave like totally different critters and had totally unique morphology.
(BTW; totally jealous of the gold ring on this one.)

 

[Mr_Knightley]

Doses anyone know what makes Cynarina look flat vs dome shaped?

Is it hunger, light, Something else?
I haven’t been able to figure it out and was always curious why some days I see this


And other this

I realize I may have misunderstood your question lol. In this specific instance, she's pumped all her fluids into her oral disc & tentacles, so only a small amount of the mantle remains inflated. Mine do this when they smell food or are hungry.

 

[VintageReefer]

(BTW; totally jealous of the gold ring on this one.)

This is a color morph. It was NOT this way when I got it. Was sold as “red Cynarina yellow mouth”

Original appearance when added to tank

 

[VintageReefer]

Also I spaced things out a bit and turned light's up, improvement is noticeable