Help with Acan identification

[migs]

The one on the right is a button coral. The one in the middle is an acan echinata, but I have no clue about the one on the right... Very flat and bigger than my other acan lords. Any ideas?

http://www.coralreefin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/One.jpg

http://www.coralreefin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Two.jpg

http://www.coralreefin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Three.jpg

 

[kimba]

Sorry, I don't know what they are, I just wanted to say they look nice

 

[migs]

Thank you!

 

[migs]

Ok so thinking the one on the left is an echinata... the plug comes from reefgen so guessing it is an acan they are known for...

 

[Jakefour9eight]

Looks like a mini scoly look Google them

 

[migs]

I thought the one on the right was a button coral... Sometimes called a mini scoly... The one on the left looks different from that one.

 

[Tab28]

I will go with @migs. It is an echinata. Not a scolly

 

[migs]

Still something different about it... But not super familiar with echinatas.

 

[Tab28]

Time will tell. Under right conditions acans grow fast.

 

[steve&mari]

I don't think it's a acan it's in the meat type corals I believe. I'll try and find the name I'm thinking of.

 

[migs]

I looked up meat corals... It is not a cynarina... Thought maybe an acanthophyllia but I don't think anyone has propagated those and this came on a plug... Maybe it was found small and mounted on it.

 

[steve&mari]

I'm looking yet n have a call to a friend who has one in his store. Is it fleshy like the common meat corals just flat or is the tissue tighter to it ?

 

[migs]

That is the weird thing. It looks fleshy but very flat. It shrinks to a smaller circle then opens so definitely fleshy.

 

[twon8]

Scolymia

 

[steve&mari]

Check this linkhttp://m.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=597+321+451&pcatid=451

 

[migs]

Wow, it looks similar to that green one on liveaquaria.

 

[Tab28]

It does not look like anything in the scolly family. The meat coral or acantophyllia is in scolly family. It has acan type written all over it.

 

[migs]

I am spot feeding it. It took several Fauna Marin LPS pellets last night. I figured if it is an acan, a head should pop out soon.

 

[migs]

Time for an update... I have been spot feeding it but no new heads:

Just for comparison, here is an echinata I got at the same time... Same spot feeding but it has 4 or 5 new heads:

It is in the middle next to the clam... Thoughts? Still think it is an echinata?

 

[migs]

Mystery solved... Diploastrea heliopora.

http://uniquecorals.com/diploastrea-sp-reefgen-green-diploastrea-1-wysiwyg-frag.html