Coral id please

[chubbyhubby]

Hi bought these frags to day any id would be good and any info on requirements would be great

And thank you very much for any help

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

The top corals are a frag of zoas and an acropora. Zoas are fairly easy, medium light and flow should suffice although some zoas may prefer different conditions. Acropora are a tough one needing high light and flow. Good luck keeping it as acropora need perfect stability. The bottom one looks like a blastomussa perhaps.

 

[chubbyhubby]

The top corals are a frag of zoas and an acropora. Zoas are fairly easy, medium light and flow should suffice although some zoas may prefer different conditions. Acropora are a tough one needing high light and flow. Good luck keeping it as acropora need perfect stability. The bottom one looks like a blastomussa perhaps.

What sort of care on the blastomussa. And what sort of size can it get

 

[Michael Cronmiller]

My blasto likes it on the tank bottom...Lower light and medium flow...And are slow growing

 

[chubbyhubby]

My blasto likes it on the tank bottom...Lower light and medium flow...And are slow growing

Ok i does it like it on sand orva rock bed

 

[Michael Cronmiller]

Got mine in the sand and it is doing well..Second head popped and is getting larger

 

[chubbyhubby]

Got mine in the sand and it is doing well..Second head popped and is getting larger

So would mine be just one head

 

[Michael Cronmiller]

Hard to tell from the pic but it might be an acan...Looks different from my blasto

 

[Michael Cronmiller]

 

[chubbyhubby]

Little hard to say its startinh to puff up but . But doesnt look like acans that i have already .

 

[anthonys51]

your tank has a lot of algae on those rocks.
if i where you i test my nitrates and phosphates. do not test with an api test kit.
also do you have a cuc crew. get a few of each of these snails (trochus, cerith, Astraea Turbo Snail,)
but snails really dont like algae once it gets to long, so get yourself an emerald crab and scarlet reg leg hermit crab
get one of each for every 15 gallons on the snails and 1 for every 25 gallons on the crabs

 

[djreef]

The bottom pic looks like a Mycedium (ie Chalice), or maybe some sort of Faviid. It's hard to tell from the picture.

The Acropora is probably a valida. Tough coral as far as Acros go.

 

[LJC6780]

Little hard to say its startinh to puff up but . But doesnt look like acans that i have already .

I'm thinking Acanthastrea echinata. I have one that looks similar to a chalice how it encrusts the rock but the little mouths sink in more than a chalice. Here's mine, the one on the left.

 

[Hans-Werner]

The second image shows a faviid, I think Favites sp.

 

[LbulletM]

I'm thinking Acanthastrea echinata. I have one that looks similar to a chalice how it encrusts the rock but the little mouths sink in more than a chalice. Here's mine, the one on the left.

Careful with that Echinata near other corals. They're nasty and they win.

 

[chubbyhubby]

Careful with that Echinata near other corals. They're nasty and they win.

What sort of distance can it reach

 

[LbulletM]

What sort of distance can it reach

I've read lots of horror stories at 3+", so I give mine a lotttt of room.

 

[chubbyhubby]

Ok do they have any special requirements

 

[LbulletM]

Not that I know of. They seem to be pretty hardy. Mine's perfectly happy on the sand bed with the occasional broadcasting of coral food (Roids or Frenzy, generally). I didn't even acclimate it (except for temperature), just threw it on a frag rack due to lack of sand bed space at the time and saw feeders within a day or two. It's on the sand bed now, darn near center of the tank, and happy as a clam (which ironically, I do not have).

 

[chubbyhubby]

Not that I know of. They seem to be pretty hardy. Mine's perfectly happy on the sand bed with the occasional broadcasting of coral food (Roids or Frenzy, generally). I didn't even acclimate it (except for temperature), just threw it on a frag rack due to lack of sand bed space at the time and saw feeders within a day or two. It's on the sand bed now, darn near center of the tank, and happy as a clam (which ironically, I do not have).

Very nice love the colours . To be honest it was an impulse buy well both of them were as lfs had an offer on old frags at 2 for £15