Name this coral....
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k2parkstar
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That's the same piece I told you was a Favia a month ago
k2parkstar
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Not uncommon at all, my war coral has feeder and sweeper tentacles
k2parkstar
Z&P Snob
Nothing, war coral is a Favia
Could you please tell me the actual color of the coral?
The sweepers and polyps remind me of my Oulophyllia bennettae
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The sweepers and polyps remind me of my Oulophyllia bennettae
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Esage
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My war coral has some long sweeper tentacles.
Engloid
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Could you please tell me the actual color of the coral?
The sweepers and polyps remind me of my Oulophyllia bennettae
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It's not the most colorful coral, it's just unique from what I've seen. Your picture looks about like an acan ecichinada (sp). This coral I have is brownish on the outside, with a purple eye. The has tentacles like the one you pictured above, but each eye has a lot of them. It also doesn't have the shorter feeder tentacles like your pic does. I believe it uses these long sweeper type tentacles to feed.
It has some interesting color Spencer,looks like a keeper to me.
The Genus Favia has a lot of species within it so its not odd to come across a "favia" that has a different look to it.
Favia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Genus Favia has a lot of species within it so its not odd to come across a "favia" that has a different look to it.
Favia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Engloid
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Rob.D
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Spencer, these 2 are my best guess.
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0495
[URL]http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0167[/URL]
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0495
[URL]http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0167[/URL]
The sweepers your seeing are day pictures, they actually extend up to about 2-3" at night
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Engloid
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I don't think so. These are typically not out at all during the day. The times I've caught it and taken pictures of them at night, they were about an inch. Maybe they vary in length during the night off and on and I haven't seen it yet though.The sweepers your seeing are day pictures, they actually extend up to about 2-3" at night
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Rob...I think you're at least getting close... it appears that many of the species of favites in that species are brownish. Perhaps this one is a morph that has a little bit of a lavender color in it.
Rob.D
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Key word "morph", most corals are very drab in the ocean and are not subjected to the artificial lights. You can not base a species ID from color.
Mummy eye chalices are a great example, they are normally green with bright orange eyes, my colony completely changed to all orange with orange eyes.
This is my chalice late 2011.
The same chalice (many many frags later) a couple of months ago.
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NanoPoseidon
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+1 My War Coral does the same thing!
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