Favia Id

[ThatPhillyReefer]

 

[tbrown]

Is it a Favia or a Echinata?

Almost looks like maybe an Orange Crush Echinata. I was thinking Agent Orange but not enough green in the mouth.

@encrustingacro looks more Acan Echinata?

 

[encrustingacro]

I would honestly need a better photo--possibly either of the original colony or when it is more grown out-- to tell. The flesh texture isn't really Acanthastrea-like--no concentric flesh wrinkles. The coral is almost chalice-like, though I doubt it is one.

 

[ThatPhillyReefer]

I would honestly need a better photo--possibly either of the original colony or when it is more grown out-- to tell. The flesh texture isn't really Acanthastrea-like--no concentric flesh wrinkles. The coral is almost chalice-like, though I doubt it is one.

it’s definitely not fleshy. looks like a favia but i agree its hard to tell. I just thought id see if anyone had any idea. i got it from my lfs for $12. its one of the brightest corals ive ever seen

 

[encrustingacro]

it’s definitely not fleshy. looks like a favia but i agree its hard to tell. I just thought id see if anyone had any idea. i got it from my lfs for $12. its one of the brightest corals ive ever seen

Favia, being West-Atlantic endemics, don't exist in the hobby, so it wouldn't be that. It doesn't really look like Dipsastraea or Favites, or any other sort of Merulinid for that matter, though that might be due to captive deformation.

 

[vadryn]

Most of the corals that were once classified as Favia are now Dipsastraea, Goniastrea, Coelastrea, or Favites.

I vote Echinata. Put it next to something you like and if it kills it... Echinata!