What's your favorite kind of LPS?

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What's your favorite kind of LPS? If you can't narrow it down to 1, then give me your top few. LOL

I'm having a hard time deciding myself. I do love favias and chalices though...
 

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Torches! but they are very difficult for me. Here is the one I have:
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Hammers are also in my favorites.
 

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I just recently read Zoas and Palys aren't even considered an "LPS" .... :eek:

What are zoanthids? Zoanthids belong to the same Class Anthozoa as sea anemones. But while sea anemones belong to Order Actiniaria, zoanthids belong to a different Order Zoanthidea. Zoanthid taxonomy is undergoing some review so the number of known zoanthids species range from 200 to 60 depending on how the species are defined.

Features: Zoanthids look like tiny sea anemones. But while sea anemones are solitary polyps, most zoanthids live in colonies like corals do. But zoanthids don't produce a hard skeleton like the hard coral colonies. Instead, their tissues are leathery and composed partly of chitin (the same substance that insect exoskeletons are made of).
 

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I love me some lobos. Platygyra can be pretty sexy too. Sure both are old school, and some may even consider them passé. But their tough as nails, can exhibit staggeringly brilliant colors, and I never tire of watching my lobo relentlessly try ... in vain ... to take out the palythoas next to it with a web of white spaghetti.

I'll have to dig out some better photos of the platys and my green lobo on the attack when I'm at my desktop later. But here's a so-so FTS with both platys in it:
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Oh this is a hard one for me. I love the color diversity of favias and chalices, but I also love the look of a happy blasto.
 

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