What is the best LPS VOTE #6!

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You know the drill.

Due to the last vote being an exactly 50/50 tie, I removed my vote which means are winner is Duncan!

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

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

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

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

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

 

[i cant think]

Im going for Symphyllia as I love the colour. Although it’s another coral I cannot have personally, same with Lobophyllia. Purely due to my lighting in one tank and my fish in another.

 

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Im going for Symphyllia as I love the colour. Although it’s another coral I cannot have personally, same with Lobophyllia. Purely due to my lighting in one tank and my fish in another.

Really? I find that they can have the same color as lobos, it's a hard choice, though symphyllia have a better growth pattern in my opinion

 

[i cant think]

Really? I find that they can have the same color as lobos, it's a hard choice, though symphyllia have a better growth pattern in my opinion

I agree with the better growth, as for the colour I find Symphyllia to be more widely available as different colours as well as brighter.

 

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I agree with the better growth, as for the colour I find Symphyllia to be more widely available as different colours as well as brighter.

True, though I've definitely seen some stunning lobos before

 

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[encrustingacro]

Symphyllia is a junior synonym of Lobophyllia; almost all the Symphyllia species were reclassified to Lobophyllia following genetic studies around 2016, with one species, Symphyllia wilsoni, getting its own genus, Australophyllia.

 

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Symphyllia is a junior synonym of Lobophyllia; almost all the Symphyllia species were reclassified to Lobophyllia following genetic studies around 2016, with one species, Symphyllia wilsoni, getting its own genus, Australophyllia.

Yes, wilisoni are going to be in a different vote, symphyllia as in single polyp and looks like a wall verison of lobo

 

[DJF]

can’t really beat a colorful Wilsoni but let me see if I can sway some minds on lobos… I miss this colony. I can honestly say the pics don’t do it justice. It feeding is my 3rd most favorite reefing moment behind only breeding clowns and mandarin courtship.

 

[Lowsingle]

I’m for symphyllia as I enjoy it’s structure, but both are beautiful and quite similar understanding they are now classified together (kind of like wellso and trachy).

Darren

 

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[Mr_Knightley]

Lobos for me. Ever since I saw an enchanting, blood red lobo at my LFS as a kid I have been a life long convert.

 

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Lobos for me. Ever since I saw an enchanting, blood red lobo at my LFS as a kid I have been a life long convert.

Not mine but red symphyllia

They come alot brighter too. Picking one up from my lfs soon

 

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[encrustingacro]

Not mine but red symphyllia

They come alot brighter too. Picking one up from my lfs soon

That's a Lobophyllia, not a "Symphyllia." "Symphyllia" have shared walls; they're meandroid, not flabello-meandroid.

 

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That's a Lobophyllia, not a "Symphyllia." "Symphyllia" have shared walls; they're meandroid, not flabello-meandroid.

I always thought of "symphyllia" as closely related to lobos with similar growth pattern/skeletal structure to an anacora hammer, like this

While your."classic lobophyllia" looking like this

Though it would make sense that they would be reclassified as lobophyllia, though I still refer to lobophyllia with this kind of growth as Symphyllia

 

[Mr_Knightley]

I always thought of "symphyllia" as closely related to lobos with similar growth pattern/skeletal structure to an anacora hammer, like this

While your."classic lobophyllia" looking like this

Though it would make sense that they would be reclassified as lobophyllia, though I still refer to lobophyllia with this kind of growth as Symphyllia

The 'classic' lobophyllia you shared is now part of the Acanthastrea genus, and the entirety of Symphyllia has been annexed into Lobophyllia. So at this point, the whole poll is "shared wall lobo vs split wall lobo".

 

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The 'classic' lobophyllia you shared is now part of the Acanthastrea genus, and the entirety of Symphyllia has been annexed into Lobophyllia. So at this point, the whole poll is "shared wall lobo vs split wall lobo".

Basically

Also I need to speak with who classified lobos as acans