Polyp parade: Do you keep Euphyllia corals?

Do you keep Euphyllia corals?

  • I currently keep euphyllia.

    Votes: 412 80.9%
  • I have kept euphyllia in the past.

    Votes: 38 7.5%
  • I have not kept euphyllia, but I plan to in the future.

    Votes: 37 7.3%
  • I have no plans to keep euphyllia.

    Votes: 18 3.5%
  • Other.

    Votes: 4 0.8%

  • Total voters
    509
i've kept them in the past. might look to get a torch later down the road. hammers/frammers/octo's are nice, but torches are probably my favorite out of all of them.
 
I used to. Managed to nuke my frogspawn and hammer this weekend applying kalk paste to a few aiptasia and palys (as I have done before, kept water off for a while so it doesn't float around). Not sure exactly what happened but the euphyllia went down quick and the other softies like mushrooms did not look too happy but they seem ok now.

Not sure if kalk paste got on them, or I spiked ph or the palys released something but just careful I guess with kalk paste.
 
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Just a note:

The following species have been taxonomically reclassified into the Fimbriaphyllia genus under the Caryophylliidae family[3]

  • Euphyllia ancora (Reclassified as Fimbriaphyllia ancora)Veron & Pichon, 1980 – hammer coral
  • Euphyllia divisa (Reclassified as Fimbriaphyllia divisa)Veron & Pichon, 1980 – frogspawn coral
  • Euphyllia paraancora (Reclassified as Fimbriaphyllia paraancora)Veron, 1990 – branching hammer coral
  • Euphyllia paradivisa (Reclassified as Fimbriaphyllia paradivisa)Veron, 1990 – branching frogspawn coral
  • Euphyllia yaeyamaensis (Reclassified as Fimbriaphyllia yaeyamaensis)(Shirai, 1980) - Thick branched frogspawn coral

They're actually under the Euphyllidae family, not Caryophylliidae. Caryophylliidae is an azooxanthellate family I think.
 
Euphyllia baliensis, commonly known as bubble coral, is a species of large-polyped stony coral belonging to the family Euphylliidae.

Euphyllia cristata is commonly called grape coral. E. cristata is a kind of stony or hard coral in the family Euphylliidae

Euphyllia glabrescens is a species of large-polyped stony coral belonging to the family Caryophylliidae. Its common name is the torch coral
Bubble coral is Plerogyra/Physogyra. I don't think E. baliensis has a common name as it is pretty rare and only recently discovered. I wouldn't recommend using Wikipedia as a source for corals as it gets many things wrong and has a lot of outdated information.
 
I have many times but none currently and no plan to. Between loving Acros and Copperbands it's not meant to be :p
 

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