Please help Unable to Identify the type of Turbinaria

Alfpatel · Sep 29, 2020

Hey Guys, Can some help me identify this Turbinaria coral ? Guy who sells me corals told me that it's Pagoda Cup coral but when I checked the limited threads and Videos, I seriously have my doubts... My best assumption is that this is Turbinaria Reinformis... Help me out as I need to understand the care level for this.. Just to give you a more idea it's base is pink ish pale color and polyps are yellow in colour... The coral is around 5" in size...

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Alfpatel · Sep 29, 2020

I want to know if it's LPS or SPS because there's too many different opinions on this...

Peace River · Sep 29, 2020

While we wait for others to jump in with an answer to your question, I want to say Welcome to Reef2Reef!

Fred2482 · Sep 29, 2020

Welcome, unfortunately I do not know the answer.

KWT · Sep 29, 2020

Welcome to R2R, I would not even venture a guess, best if I just follow along

ScubaFish802 · Sep 29, 2020

Unfortunately same here, no idea but -

I'm sure someone here will have some idea shortly . .

BeltedCoyote · Sep 29, 2020

Welcome to R2R!!! Let’s get #reefsquad in here for some answers

Lasse · Sep 29, 2020

SPS and LPS is only a hobbyist nomenclature and anything to do with classification of corals or their lifestyle. Its only referring to the size of their polyps.

However most hobbyists class this coral as a LPS

Sincerely Lasse

Funston07 · Sep 29, 2020

Don't know the answer to your question but welcome to R2R!!!

Alfpatel · Sep 29, 2020

Thanks ! I can understand that but since I am not well equipped to keep an SPS at the moment neither do I have an expertise so I thought I should ask someone... I've kept mostly sun corals, GSP and Zoeas at the moment... So don't want to rush myself into a disaster...

BighohoReef · Sep 29, 2020

Welcome to Reef2Reef! Do you have a picture with less light? It would help with the ID.

CelestEel · Sep 29, 2020

CelestEel · Sep 29, 2020

Alfpatel said:
Thanks ! I can understand that but since I am not well equipped to keep an SPS at the moment neither do I have an expertise so I thought I should ask someone... I've kept mostly sun corals, GSP and Zoeas at the moment... So don't want to rush myself into a disaster...

I would treat it as LPS. Turbinaria corals don't require the kind of light and flow that many SPS corals do. I see more of them in LPS dominant tanks than I do SPS tanks.

Floppyfish · Sep 29, 2020

I’ve grown multiple colonies of Turbinaria. Don’t know the individual species tho. In my opinion it’s not very difficult. It seems to thrive with standard reef chemistry, feeding it with phytofeast and some days R.O.E. My colonies grow under 1000 watt Metal halide with blue led strips but that’s in an institutional setting. Seems very hardy to me. I’ve watched a colony the size of silver dollar grow to larger than a dinner plate over 15 years and a broken piece of that the size of a half dollar is now dinner plate size about 10 years later. Good luck. Sorry I can’t help ya with the Id of the species. My pieces are a turquoise greenish base with light minty green polyps, but I also know that could be because of lighting.

C. Eymann · Sep 29, 2020

Welcome to the forum!

Id compare your tubinaria to T. peltata by the looks of it.

P-Dub · Sep 29, 2020

Welcome! @Lasse hit the nail on the head. Treat as an LPS. Fairly hardy. A photo with predominantly white light or using a color correcting filter would help more in identifying the particular type you have.