Acanthophyllia Deshayesiana Show Off Thread!!

Jfknigh2 · Dec 7, 2014

SnoQ · Dec 8, 2014

Beautiful rainbow stripes on that second one BSA Corals!

lsingh · Jan 21, 2015

revhtree · Jan 21, 2015

New tag for meat coral lovers! Click this and subscribe and then use it every time you post some eye candy or meat coral info! #meatcoral

choff · Jan 21, 2015

These have recently become one of my favorite corals. Mine is looking pretty sad right now. Who else besides WWC sells these hottie's?

kfd · Jan 22, 2015

ptpablo · Jan 22, 2015

Hungry!

Sea_Monkey · Jan 23, 2015

kfd said:

very nice!!

BSA Corals · Jan 25, 2015

Mussin · Jan 27, 2015

****.....nice! Here's mine

NorthGaHillbilly · Feb 20, 2015

I've posted these guys in here before, but this picture was the first time I was able to get the colors right

Untitled by North Ga Hillbilly, on Flickr

Maximus · May 3, 2015

Can these be kept on a rock? I run a BB tank and was wondering if they would be comfortable on a rock or a piece of pvc? Thanks.

BSA Corals · May 3, 2015

BSA Corals · May 3, 2015

Not an acanthophyllia but just as cool! Indophyllia

Tab28 · May 3, 2015

BSA Corals said:
Not an acanthophyllia but just as cool! Indophyllia

Never heard of this group. How does it differ in appearance to acanthophylia?

Tab28 · May 3, 2015

Maximus said:
Can these be kept on a rock? I run a BB tank and was wondering if they would be comfortable on a rock or a piece of pvc? Thanks.

A LFS that deals with corals for the more expensive taste. Keeps them on grates and some raised for viewing by pvc. As long as the pvc is not too wide. As for rocks. Not sure they inflate so much that a current may help knock them off. Also the flesh may get irritated if rocks are not smooth. They are low to low-medium light and low flow. Mine gets so inflated it takes up 3x the real estate of its skeleton. Never had luck with scoly, too much light, even in my lowest light area around 100 par. But acanthophylia no problems.

soggytees · May 4, 2015

Love these!!

SnoQ · Nov 3, 2015

It's been a while since anyone has posted here, so I thought I'd share a pic of an acanthophyllia I never thought I'd e positing a picture of online. A friend of mine bought it for $600 or $650 after seeing a beautiful pic online, but when it arrived it didn't look anything like the photo. He kept it for a while but finally called it a loss and sold it to me for $150. I figured for that price I'd take the chance and see if it ever became anything interesting. For months it just looked brown during the day and had a few streaks that were OK at night. Just in the last 2 months, this is what it's turned into.

Day Lighting

Night Lighting