Coral ID please

[Susan Edwards]

received this as a freebie. Is it a favia or favite? Or?

 

[blaxsun]

I'm going to go with favia or favite, but I've been looking at coral pictures all day so my mind may be mush at this point... It's not an acan and I don't think it's a goniastrea.

 

[Susan Edwards]

I wish they'd sent something not green lol's. Too much green in my tank!

 

[blaxsun]

I wish they'd sent something not green lol's. Too much green in my tank!

I hear ya. I added a bright blue goniopora colony a few months back. I didn't realize it at the time, but it's my only all blue coral. Then I started actively looking for blue corals and other than bubble corals there are just not that many true blue corals out there. It's not something you realize until you start looking for blue corals...

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Yellows. Reds. Purples. Get that rainbow yo! Lol.
I'm gonna say that's similar to an old coral.called Mayan sun favia or pot of gold favia.
+1 favia
-d

 

[Susan Edwards]

I hear ya. I added a bright blue goniopora colony a few months back. I didn't realize it at the time, but it's my only all blue coral. Then I started actively looking for blue corals and other than bubble corals there are just not that many true blue corals out there. It's not something you realize until you start looking for blue corals...

I did get an Aussie teal duncan yesterday and what should be a blue lagoon acan and the fox coral has a bluish tint nd the elegnce. At least not solid dark greens

 

[nereefpat]

I've been told that all corals in the hobby we call Favia have been reclassified into the Favites genus, and that Favia species are only in the Caribbean.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

I can tell you that favia has bigger heads than favites. Favites is war coral. The eyes are smaller and closer together. The coralites develop more so and are more profound on favia coral.
Similar to the old acan lord corals that are now all sold as micromussa. Micromussa are just baby small acan lords. Lol.
It doesn't matter to me what people call em as long as I can still get it. Lol.
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