I have 2 corals I need help identifying. The blue and orange one is supposedly a brain coral. I can't really tell and the the pink and blue is a favia but it looks like an acan to me. The both kind of do. Any help is greatly appreciated
Coral ID help
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Acanthastrea echinata, and a Favites or perhaps Dipsastraea(formerly Favia) species that I can't seem to fully rememeber. Can't get em all right I guess (;
A. echinata yes.
Are they what used to be called A. lordhowensis? Where the corallites are separated?
Yep those are Micromussa lordhowensis, what used to be called Acanthastrea lordhowensis. Used to be in the same Genus before. But yeah they're different species.
No. I thought I could put the enchinata with other acans and woke up to the enchinata covering the acan Lord with filaments. Almost lost the lord.
Its a bad picture because the blues are on but you can still see what's left of the upper acan after the coral warfare with the enchinata. They are nice looking, but the enchinata is very aggressive.
If they grow together you'll run into aggression problems, with same species a lot of corals are fine, with different Genera you should keep them from getting too close.
Good to know!! The enchinata is on a separate island all by itselfIts a bad picture because the blues are on but you can still see what's left of the upper acan after the coral warfare with the enchinata. They are nice looking, but the enchinata is very aggressive.
