What is the best LPS VOTE #11!

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You know the drill.

Here are our previous winners!


Scolymia
--------------------Scolymia
Cynarina

Frogspawn (branching or wall)
-----------------------------------------------torches
Torches

Favia
------------------favia
Platygyra

Trachyphyllia
------------------------Acanthophyllia
Acanthophyllia

Blastomoussa
-------------------------Duncan
Duncan

Lobophyllia
-----------------------Lobophyllia
Symphyllia

Favities
------------------Favities
Leptastrea

Alveopora
-------------------goniopora
Goniopora

Chalice
----------------chalice
Pectinia

Hammer (branching or wall)
--------------------‐---------------------hammer
Octospawn

 

[i cant think]

I’ll have to go Homolophyllia bowerbanki as there are some gorgeous ones, especially the ‘master’ bowerbankis.

 

[Lowsingle]

Two of my favorites, I went lord due to the greater variety of color morphs but bowers are bigger and easier to care for so this was a tough one for me….

Darren

 

[encrustingacro]

Both lords and bowerbankis have been moved to different genera; lords to Micromussa, and bowerbankis to Homophyllia (same genus as Australian Scolymia)

 

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Both lords and bowerbankis have been moved to different genera; lords to Micromussa, and bowerbankis to Homophyllia (same genus as Australian Scolymia)

True. Though I thought micromoussa were a different species than lords, though that could just he the wholesalers mislabeling then again, micromussa on this website are simply labeled as Acanthastrea sp.

After being on R2R enough, I found this website to be great with quality, bad with labeling lol

Still my go-to seller for wild aussie colonies, though unfortunately only LFS can order through them, I can only look..

 

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QUESTION for @i cant think and @encrustingacro, the next vote will be galaxea vs something else , though I don't know what. I'm thinking either hydnophora with similar aggression and growth, acan enchinata for aggression and entrusting growth or elegance for aggression, though are there any close relatives to galaxea that I'm missing?

 

[encrustingacro]

QUESTION for @i cant think and @encrustingacro, the next vote will be galaxea vs something else , though I don't know what. I'm thinking either hydnophora with similar aggression and growth, acan enchinata for aggression and entrusting growth or elegance for aggression, though are there any close relatives to galaxea that I'm missing?

Galaxea are not related to any of the genera you mentioned; Hydnophora and elegances are merulinids and Acanthastrea are lobophylliids. Galaxea are euphylliids, and are most closely related to Euphyllia, with distant relatives being Fimbriaphyllia, Ctenella, Gyrosmilia, and Coeloseris.

 

[encrustingacro]

True. Though I thought micromoussa were a different species than lords, though that could just he the wholesalers mislabeling then again, micromussa on this website are simply labeled as Acanthastrea sp.

After being on R2R enough, I found this website to be great with quality, bad with labeling lol

Still my go-to seller for wild aussie colonies, though unfortunately only LFS can order through them, I can only look..

True; what we call Micromussa are M. amakusensis, and what we call lords are M. lordhowensis. I wouldn't trust vendor and hobbyist IDs as they often misidentify corals and use outdated taxonomy.

 

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Galaxea are not related to any of the genera you mentioned; Hydnophora and elegances are merulinids and Acanthastrea are lobophylliids. Galaxea are euphylliids, and are most closely related to Euphyllia, with distant relatives being Fimbriaphyllia, Ctenella, Gyrosmilia, and Coeloseris.

I've been looking for something to put frammers against! Thanks.

 

[kevgib67]

I’m going with acan lord for the same reason as mentioned above, a wider selection of colors. For some reason mine have faded in color as compared to when I first introduced them.

 

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