What is the best LPS VOTE #19!

Reefkeepers Archive · Oct 7, 2023

You know the drill.

Here are our previous winners!

Scolymia
--------------------Scolymia
Cynarina

Frogspawn (branching or wall)
-----------------------------------------------torches
Torches

Favia
------------------favia
Platygyra

Trachyphyllia
------------------------Acanthophyllia
Acanthophyllia

Blastomoussa
-------------------------Duncan
Duncan

Lobophyllia
-----------------------Lobophyllia
Symphyllia

Favities
------------------Favities
Leptastrea

Alveopora
-------------------goniopora
Goniopora

Chalice
----------------chalice
Pectinia

Hammer (branching or wall)
--------------------‐---------------------hammer
Octospawn

Acan lord
-----------------------------acan lord
Acan bowerbanki

Galaxea
-----------------Frammer
Frammer

L. Rowleyensis (australomussa)
--------------------------‐-‐--------L. rowleyensis
Moseleya

Physogyra
------------------Pleogyra
Pleogyra

Cyphastrea
---------------------Cyphastrea
Turbinaria

Helmet "fungia"
---------‐----------------Heliofungia
Heliofungia

Nemenzophyllia
------------------------------------- B. Merletti
Blastomoussa merletti

Cataphyllia
-----------------------Cataphyllia
Hydnophora

i cant think · Oct 7, 2023

This one was hard but tubastrea wins for me, the splash of yellow from Faulkneri is like nothing else and then also the Micranthus giving the black/green is a good combo.

Reefkeepers Archive · Oct 7, 2023

i cant think said:
This one was hard but tubastrea wins for me, the splash of yellow from Faulkneri is like nothing else and then also the Micranthus giving the black/green is a good combo.

True, though walking dendros have to be my favorite, incredibly interesting species

encrustingacro · Oct 7, 2023

Fun fact: There is actually a similar-looking (buy completely unrelated) coral to Heteropsammia called Heterocyathus. Like Heteropsammia, Heterocyathus is free-living, facultatively zooxanthellate, favors the same niche (sandy inter-reef habitats), and houses a peanut worm which it uses to move around. What separates Heterocyathus from Heteropsammia is that Heterocyathus has visible costae and more exert primary septa. Genetic studies show Heterocyathus is most closely related to Oulastrea.