Coral ID?

[Anonymous]

Just went to an out of town fish store and picked this puppy up.

Was listed as a Mycedium, but it reminds me of the Echinopora lamellosa I used to have? I thought Mycedium had smoother flesh.

The photo does not do it justice, the glass was dirty and I didn't set up the tripod, but I wanted to get a photo up to see what folks thought it was.

Either way, I think it's pretty cool. It was very inexpensive and I think it is just lovely. Shame the colors in the photo don't look as vivid as they do in the tank!

 

[Ben1]

Echinophyllia aspera?

 

[Anonymous]

Looks like Echinopora to me also - mycedium have more regular spacing on the corallites if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Anonymous]

I think mycedium corallites are all supposed to radiate from the centre (certainly more regular than this) and have a quite distinct nose shape. I think you're right, this isn't mycedium.

As to what it actually is, I'll leave that for others.

 

[Anonymous]

Echinophyllia aspera?

Yup.

Nice one, too. Been seeing a few of that general coloration show up with online vendors for the past couple of months.

 

[Anonymous]

Echinophyllia aspera

Thank all, I just did some google searches with that name and feel that totally what it is. I feel like we got it for a steal! It was 59 dollars, and it is a quite large specimen. I can't hardly buy a small bubble coral for that price around here.

The guys at the fish store didn't seem to be sure about what it was.


FWIW, it's in the bottom third of a 120 under 14k 250 W HQI bulbs. We weren't sure where to put it.

 

[Anonymous]

Laura, see http://advancedaquarist.com/issues/june2002/invert.htm

That was back in the day when there were like four of us who owned one

 

[Len]

Hey Laura, does your colony send out sweeper tentacles at night. I'm having a really hard time trying to figure out which chalices do and don't. I hate waking up to a half dead SPS coral next to a new chalice frag I introduced

 

[Anonymous]

Good bet would to say all send sweepers. I haven't found one yet that doesn't. IMO the more you have, the more they tend to send out sweepers. I probably have 30 different morphs, and all send sweepers now

 

[Anonymous]

I looked early this morning, which is late at night for the tank, and didn't see any sweepers, however we have given it a large coral free zone around it just to be safe.

It did have a major sweeper fit several hours after it was put in the tank, and was putting off a lot of mucous too. It was a nice warning of what it would be capable of.

 

[Anonymous]

Here is a current photo of this coral. I still can't quite capture how vivid the pink areas are. It is very pretty and seems to be thriving.

 

[Len]

Awesome, Laura. I also can't capture the pinks on some of my Echinophyllias either; I have one that is a gorgeous cotton candy pink with blue edges, but photos make it look gray

 

[trido]

but photos make it look gray

Photos? :?

 

[Len]

Pretend photos