Possible scoly? Lobo?

breaknrun911 · Dec 6, 2013

My LFS did not have this labeled. I thought is was different and it was a cheap purchase. Started with 4 spots 2 months ago now it has six! Any ideas??

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Arubix · Dec 6, 2013

looks like a mix between a Wellsophyllia and a Meat Scoly.

Arubix · Dec 6, 2013

How much was it?

breaknrun911 · Dec 7, 2013

Well my LFS charges roughly 3x more in livestock than what they got it for. I paid 49.98

Tab28 · Dec 7, 2013

Don't think scoly or lobo. I saw one site advertise what they called a platting lobo. To me the platting lobo just looked like a rhotondoflora. Yours to me looks like it could be something along that line in the acan family.

Fatmike92 · Dec 7, 2013

I'm thinking some kind of welso or brain type coral.

miyags · Dec 7, 2013

Hard to tell from pic. Pic looks like prism favia frag.

mainereefer · Dec 7, 2013

I would guess goniastrea or maybe just maybe a type of symphyllia

Sdoutreefer · Dec 7, 2013

Looks like some sort of favia to me.

whixley101 · Dec 7, 2013

Favia +1

mainereefer · Dec 7, 2013

Sdoutreefer said:
Looks like some sort of favia to me.

whixley101 said:
Favia +1

favia is a general term misused by 90% of the hobby. favia basically means closed brain coral, so what species are you referring to?

Sdoutreefer · Dec 7, 2013

Favia to me is a prism brain.

Fatmike92 · Dec 7, 2013

Torch coral :tongue1:

mainereefer · Dec 7, 2013

Sdoutreefer said:
Favia to me is a prism brain.

lol

prizm brain is goniastrea not favia

Sdoutreefer · Dec 7, 2013

mainereefer said:
lol

prizm brain is goniastrea not favia

Ok I must be confused then. Favia as in dragons soul favia. Thought they were the same.

mainereefer · Dec 7, 2013

:doh: dragon soul favia is not favia its goniastrea....

Sdoutreefer · Dec 7, 2013

mainereefer said:
:doh: dragon soul favia is not favia its goniastrea....

Lol then why is favia in its name?? Then I take my previous statement back. It's a goniastrea

Tab28 · Dec 7, 2013

mainereefer said:
:doh: dragon soul favia is not favia its goniastrea....

I always thought they looked very similar but i considered dragon soul aka prism favia a true favia. I thought goniastrea had more raised ridged around the mouth. To me they looked like a pineapple. You could always see ridges most favias were more fleshy.