jayala12
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It’s a tie between my og bounce and asd holy grail
Shout out to @BarrierReefAquariums and @AquaSD for these fine specimens
Show me your prized coral - the one frag or colony you love the most
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It’s a tie between my og bounce and asd holy grail
Shout out to @BarrierReefAquariums and @AquaSD for these fine specimens
We ask this guy
@encrustingacro hello can we please have an ID on the coral in post 1?
Suggestions are
Acanthastrea Echinata
Fluted Moon Coral
dipsastraea
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That is a nice pectinia - looks like its doing well. I was abel to get a piece of that space invader pectinia, and and hav e it growing on my softy rock.Hard to pick a favorite, but lately I've been adoring my pectinia, bottom left corner.
Started as a $5 frag the soze of a thumb nail. Nice to watch them grow up.
jabberwock
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Great thread! Mine is not very impressive, but my fav... and the little fish's.
encrustingacro
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Dipsastraea
It appears to be Dipsastraea speciosa. @encrustingacro can probably confirm/correctly ID though. Family Merulinidae can be trickyI am honestly not sure - I know it came out of Australia, and it has been IDed as a a type of acanthastrea coral, Acanthastrea Echinata, even a favia, but none of them fit perfectly.
The dome shape is one of the reason I like it so much. it's not hollow inside - its basically a solid core and is growing outwards. it has some serious heft and weight to it - at least it did that last time I picked it up, when it was 3/4 of its current size
This is that same colony from about 4 years ago
*edit : I was too slow lol
Cheap Dipsastrea i picked up at a show
This softie was once known as The Nose, then The Fist, and now The Baseball Glove
This softie was once known as The Nose, then The Fist, and now The Baseball Glove
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I liked when we could just call all these favia
You still can, you'd just be wrong.
Encrusting acro gave me permission and approval to refer to them as ex-favia so pfffffttttYou still can, you'd just be wrong.
encrustingacro
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Merulinids (and most other corals for that matter) are not IDable to the species level due to either molecular data not matching up with phenotypes or ambiguous type material. On top of that, some taxonomists have assigned random phenotypes to species that don't match up with their type specimens, which adds another layer of complication.
This is one of the type specimens for D. speciosa, collected from "the East Indies". Does the morphology match up with @Vivid Creative Aquatics' pictured coral? Are the collection localities within biogeogeaphical range? Are there any other species that may look similar?
encrustingacro
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I wouldn't recommend sites like sealifebase or CotW, as they are rife with misidentifications.
xWascallyWabbit
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Favia I think. It's been a really slow grower so the bigger it gets the more I love it.
Wow the color on these are amazing!!! What kind of lights do you run?How am I supposed to pick?!?!?? Ahhhhh!!!!!
johnwwalkeriii
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Where is that last goni from?! Looks amazing!
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