Scoly/Lobo ID

[sassyonmane]

Bought from lfs as a tiny lobo coral
unsure if its a lobo or scoly, looks roundish but not perfect circle.
First photos are feeding the coral.
Also wanted to ask what the little tentacle looking things swinging around on the rim of the coral was. (in the video)

 

[mcarroll]

As usual the vid doesn't play....posting somewhere first (eg youtube) and linking here works better.

 

[thamnasteroid]

Acanthastrea pachysepta

 

[sassyonmane]

As usual the vid doesn't play....posting somewhere first (eg youtube) and linking here works better.

 

[sassyonmane]

Also i noticed these yellow/green dots forming along the rim of the coral

 

[mcarroll]

"Sweeper" is probably a worm in the rock. Cool!

 

[sassyonmane]

"Sweeper" is probably a worm in the rock. Cool!

is it bad? should i dip it or leave it

 

[VintageReefer]

This

Acanthastrea pachysepta: Your Orange Lobo is most Likely an Acan! | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog

Acanthastrea pachysepta is a reclassification of a coral that has stumped us for well over a decade. Formerly classified as a Lophyllia (which now includes all Symphyllia too), the majority of orange…

reefbuilders.com

 

[sassyonmane]

This

Acanthastrea pachysepta: Your Orange Lobo is most Likely an Acan! | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog

Acanthastrea pachysepta is a reclassification of a coral that has stumped us for well over a decade. Formerly classified as a Lophyllia (which now includes all Symphyllia too), the majority of orange…

reefbuilders.com

Oh do i have the same one as the thumbnail?

 

[StartingATank]

Those sweeper things you mentioned earlier are the coral's feeding tentacles, which all the corals that have been listed have these types of tentacles. I don't think it is a Scoly, because they usually don't have a gradient in their colors, it is usually red on green, with no gradient. I believe it is one of the other types of corals.

 

[sassyonmane]

Those sweeper things you mentioned earlier are the coral's feeding tentacles, which all the corals that have been listed have these types of tentacles. I don't think it is a Scoly, because they usually don't have a gradient in their colors, it is usually red on green, with no gradient. I believe it is one of the other types of corals.

i meant the white tentacles on the side, not in the inside ring.

 

[sassyonmane]

Where on my rock should i glue down the acan? my flow is strongest at the back (the top shelf with the green acro and the shelf infront of it) and the left side, the flow blows from the back right side to the back left and then kind of curves forward and around the front of the tank, so the side slanted rock gets pretty high flow.

 

[sassyonmane]

or maybe i just glue it to the low flow medium light area i had it back before, altho its a more flat and non slanted area on the rock that i wanted to put a goni/alveopora on

 

[sassyonmane]

Also would a goni/alveopora do well glued to the bottom glass? or is it just a better idea to leave a area of the rock for it, its just that its gonna take up a ton of real estate with its tentacles

 

[sassyonmane]

Where on my rock should i glue down the acan? my flow is strongest at the back (the top shelf with the green acro and the shelf infront of it) and the left side, the flow blows from the back right side to the back left and then kind of curves forward and around the front of the tank, so the side slanted rock gets pretty high flow.

Which one of these areas would be best for it to grow?

The only downside with the slanted rock on the side of the scape is that i might eventually want to turn it over to the underside where it looks like it used to be a acropora colony's skeleton and I might want to glue acro frags to the branchy/textured spikes so they can grow out from there. Or is that not good for acro growth?