What favia are we working with?

[Team-Nano-reef]

Got this favia a couple weeks ago, Pretty excited. what’s the name?

 

[ScottR]

I believe that’s a chalice

 

[Team-Nano-reef]

I believe that’s a chalice

Really? I’ve heard it’s a spicy lemon favia but with so much out there I’m not sure.

 

[Hemmdog]

It’s called like a jet fuel or top fuel favia, something like that.
It’s actually a favites pentagona, commonly mislabeled just, favia.

 

[ScottR]

Really? I’ve heard it’s a spicy lemon favia but with so much out there I’m not sure.

Could be. Nice piece though.

 

[Team-Nano-reef]

Could be. Nice piece though.

Thank you I got it for 25 it’s a quarter size frag pod.

 

[Team-Nano-reef]

It’s called like a jet fuel or top fuel favia, something like that.
It’s actually a favites pentagona, commonly mislabeled just, favia.

It’s called like a jet fuel or top fuel favia, something like that.
It’s actually a favites pentagona, commonly mislabeled just, favia.

it puts out tentacles when I feed the tank but it’s not puffy yet kinda skinny.

 

[Hemmdog]

it puts out tentacles when I feed the tank but it’s not puffy yet kinda skinny.

Yep that’s normal for pentagona, you can feed the tentacles small mysis occasionally for increased growth.

 

[tstar]

It does look lime my Spicy Lemon Favia... From my understanding the difference between a Favia and a Favites is the eye/mouth surrounding "ridge lines". One shares a single ridge line while the other will have two complete encircling ridge lines around each eye that will abut one another...

"In the case of Favia, each polyp appears to be separated by a line or roll in the surface tissue. In contrast, Favites polyps appear to connect at a ridge because the corallites share a common wall formed from a thickening of their septa. Note how each Favia polyp has a distinct wall separated from adjacent polyps "

Does that make sense lol??

Tim

 

[Team-Nano-reef]

It does look lime my Spicy Lemon Favia... From my understanding the difference between a Favia and a Favites is the eye/mouth surrounding "ridge lines". One shares a single ridge line while the other will have two complete encircling ridge lines around each eye that will abut one another...

"In the case of Favia, each polyp appears to be separated by a line or roll in the surface tissue. In contrast, Favites polyps appear to connect at a ridge because the corallites share a common wall formed from a thickening of their septa. Note how each Favia polyp has a distinct wall separated from adjacent polyps "

Does that make sense lol??

Tim

Sure does. Thank you!

 

[tupes]

I'm going with Spicy Lemon also.