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Need help iding this coral.
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slipknotgrrl83
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Hard to tell with blurry pic.. maybe a favia? Can you get a more up close pic?
This is the only reference I could find online:
110 CORALS AND CORAL ISLANDS. The corals of colder waters, either outside.of the coral-reef seas, or at considerable depths within them, comprise, accordingly, the following:1. A very few Fungids. 2. Some of the Oculinids; many of the Astrangids and Caryophyllids; a few Stylophorids. 3. Many of the Eupsammids. 4. Some of the Gorgonia and Pennatula tribes, and a few of the Alcyonium tribe. 5. Milleporids of the genus Pliobothrus; many Stylasterids. A large proportion of the cold water species are solitary polyps. Through the torrid region, in the central and western Pacific, that is, within 15~ to 18~ of the equator, where the temperature of the surface is never below 74~F. for any month of the year, all the prominent genera of reef-forming species are abundantly represented-those of the Astraeacea, Fungacea, Oculinacea, Madreporacea, Alcyonoids, Millepores and Nullipores. The Feejee seas afford magnificent examples of these torrid region productions. Astreas and Maeandrinas grow there in their fullest perfection; Madrepores add flowering shrubbery of many kinds, besides large vases and spreading folia; some of these folia over six feet in expanse. Mussa and related species produce clumps of larger flowers; Meruline, Echinoporae, Gemmiporae and Montiporae form groups of gracefully infolded or spreading leaves; Pavonima, Pocillipore, Seriatoporax and Porites branching tufts of a great variety of forms; Tubipores and Xeniae, beds or masses of the most delicately-tinted pinks; Sponggodiam, large pendant clusters of orange and crimson; and Fungias display their broad disks in the spaces among the other kinds. Many of the species may be gathered from the shallow pools about the reefs.
Maybe check out Echinoporae, Gemmiporae, and Montiporae for similar care?
110 CORALS AND CORAL ISLANDS. The corals of colder waters, either outside.of the coral-reef seas, or at considerable depths within them, comprise, accordingly, the following:1. A very few Fungids. 2. Some of the Oculinids; many of the Astrangids and Caryophyllids; a few Stylophorids. 3. Many of the Eupsammids. 4. Some of the Gorgonia and Pennatula tribes, and a few of the Alcyonium tribe. 5. Milleporids of the genus Pliobothrus; many Stylasterids. A large proportion of the cold water species are solitary polyps. Through the torrid region, in the central and western Pacific, that is, within 15~ to 18~ of the equator, where the temperature of the surface is never below 74~F. for any month of the year, all the prominent genera of reef-forming species are abundantly represented-those of the Astraeacea, Fungacea, Oculinacea, Madreporacea, Alcyonoids, Millepores and Nullipores. The Feejee seas afford magnificent examples of these torrid region productions. Astreas and Maeandrinas grow there in their fullest perfection; Madrepores add flowering shrubbery of many kinds, besides large vases and spreading folia; some of these folia over six feet in expanse. Mussa and related species produce clumps of larger flowers; Meruline, Echinoporae, Gemmiporae and Montiporae form groups of gracefully infolded or spreading leaves; Pavonima, Pocillipore, Seriatoporax and Porites branching tufts of a great variety of forms; Tubipores and Xeniae, beds or masses of the most delicately-tinted pinks; Sponggodiam, large pendant clusters of orange and crimson; and Fungias display their broad disks in the spaces among the other kinds. Many of the species may be gathered from the shallow pools about the reefs.
Maybe check out Echinoporae, Gemmiporae, and Montiporae for similar care?
I agree.A merulina has more of a maze appearance.Your frag looks like it will have "eyes".
