LPS ID

Marine Flora · Jul 19, 2006

anybody want to take a stab at id'ing this guy..

gflat65 · Jul 19, 2006

My first guess would be something along the lines of Micro diminuta... Could be a Favia of some sort, too, though...

fishes2889 · Jul 19, 2006

favia.......................

Steve

furforfour · Jul 19, 2006

My guess is favia.

mschriskim · Jul 20, 2006

I would go with Favia

Marine Flora · Jul 20, 2006

thats what my guess was also. i picked it up at a store that had a sale. at first glance i thought it was a acan bc of it orange and green stripes. you can't see the orange only under actinics.

surfn · Jul 20, 2006

so does anyone want to show pics of the difference b/w a favia, and favites? i'm not much into LPS, but i do hear local club members argue over it from time to time.

jessiesgrrl · Jul 20, 2006

What, they are arguing because nobody is begging them for a piece of their super cool favite with blue underwear???

Laurie

surfn · Jul 20, 2006

jessiesgrrl said:
What, they are arguing because nobody is begging them for a piece of their super cool favite with blue underwear???

Laurie

yeah basically, one guy got a favia a year ago (the head club guy), and all the other wanna be rich kid peons bought a bunch of favia/favites so they could all call themselves cool and try to make it the next "craze". another reason why they are prob upset about zoas being hot right now, since their favias didnt get hot on the market .

Azurel · Jul 20, 2006

In Favia the corallites do not share a polyp wall each polyp has a seperate wall around the polyp. Where as in Favites the corallites share polyp walls with each other...So I would say that brain is actully a Favites sp....Because the corallites are sharing the wall with each other.