Help identify these corals please.

[loungefrog11]

Hi guys,

I'm less than a year in and got a bundle of corals for a good price. Can you help me with what these ones are called. Thanks for any help.

 

[MelancholyBlenny]

Hi guys,

I'm less than a year in and got a bundle of corals for a good price. Can you help me with what these ones are called. Thanks for any help.

Hard to tell

Looks like some type of favia

Some type of birdsnest

Closed Zoanthids or Palythoas

Not Sure

Cyphastrea

Some sort of Yuma Mushroom it looks like

A type of Digitata

Looks like a reverse superman Montipora

 

[Alexopora]

Hi guys,

I'm less than a year in and got a bundle of corals for a good price. Can you help me with what these ones are called. Thanks for any help.


1. Looks alot like a purple Monti Digitata or a Stylophora, anywho you might wanna place this higher in the tank as it really thrives in higher light and

2. Looks like some sort of “Favia”. Not sure what the exact genus is. But i believe its fine currently where its placed.
3. Most likely Seriatopora Hystrix, aka a type of Birdsnest. I can assure you it will appreciate being placed higher in your tank where it gets more light and flow.
4. Some variant of Zoanthids. It should be fine in its current placement, but do monitor it. These corals appreciate a bit of flow.
5. Hard to tell but the coral doesnt look good. Its likely a type of plating montipora. Should be placed higher in the tank and not on the sandbed.
6. Cyphastrea. Place it somewhere in the middle. It loves high flow but give it low to medium lighting. Beware, once these guys are established they grow really really fast.

7. Ricordea Yuma. Tentatively leave it at where it is. You wanna see thick bubble like tentacles that indicate a happy Yuma. Personal experience, they are alot more sensitive than most mushroom corals and grow/spread alot slower than most corals.
8. A montipora digitata. Could be a forest fire or bubblegum variant. As with the other sps listed, please place them higher.

9. Encrusting montipora, most likely the Reverse Superman Monti. As with other sps, loves light and flow. Place it higher.

You have quite a lot of sps on the sandbed. Please do put them higher. I can ensure you they will greatly appreciate it.

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[vetteguy53081]

Hi guys,

I'm less than a year in and got a bundle of corals for a good price. Can you help me with what these ones are called. Thanks for any help.

These pics are hard to work with and best under white lighting. Top may be stylopora, next Microfavia, birdsnest, closed up zoa, montipora (dont think tongue) which should be elevated, chyphastrea, yuma mushroom, monti digita and last possible superman monti

 

[loungefrog11]

You have quite a lot of sps on the sandbed. Please do put them higher. I can ensure you they will greatly appreciate it.

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Thank both of you guys that replied. I just got them so just put all of them on the sandbed for the night. I'll be placing them today. I was looking up the flow/light/placement info for each online. Thanks for your info on each coral though. All info is very much appreciated, especially since I'm fairly new to this hobby. Thanks again!!

 

[encrustingacro]

Hi guys,

I'm less than a year in and got a bundle of corals for a good price. Can you help me with what these ones are called. Thanks for any help.

1. Stylophora sp.
2. Platygyra sp; definitely not Favia as first of all, there are no Favias in the hobby. Second, this coral has uneven septa and is submeandroid.
3. Seriatopora sp.
4. Zoanthus sp, not Palythoa. Smooth mesoglea and no capitulary ridges.
5. Montipora sp; Some people will try to tell you that it is M. capticornis, but it is not. True capricornis are almost never seen in the hobby. They grow in a cup-like plating form, are usually pink/purple, have no papillae or tuberculae, and have a 'wave' pattern on their coenosteum.
6. Cyphastrea sp.
7. Ricordea yuma
8. Montipora digitata or samarensis
9. Montipora sp.