Show me your Favias!

[DannoOMG]

It's either a favia or favite or I don't know the difference between the two.

"Darth Maul something"

 

[Jillianh]

I purchased this one as a single polyp of “favia”. I don’t know what it really is, but it sure is a fast grower. Any ideas?

 

[steveschuerger]

I’ve got favia/favites as well as bowers the op put up. Love em both.

 

[Fredrxn]

Meltdown favia

 

[fishgirljockey]

I purchased this one as a single polyp of “favia”. I don’t know what it really is, but it sure is a fast grower. Any ideas?

wowwwww. How long have you had it? It def looks like a favia to me

 

[fishgirljockey]

That looks more like an Acan/Homophyllia bowerbanki instead of a favia - might be where the name is from. Either way, cool thread idea I'll see if I can't get some snaps at home. Have a billion pics of everything else but not many of my favia/favites/goniastrea.

It does. Im so confused now LOL and agreed. I love seeing the photos. I wouldn't mind seeing both acans and favias. Both are really nice!

 

[encrustingacro]

The store I get mine from, they had just gotten it in and that's what the label was when it shipped in

If you google the bowerbanki - it does look like them. I can see tho how the acan turns up. When I look online at the bowers, in person it looks exactly like those, however, there is bower acans and bower favias

this is a bower acan.

First of all, there is no such thing as a bowerbanki acan or a bowerbanki Favia. Bowerbanki is a species of coral from the genus Homophyllia.

WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Homophyllia bowerbanki (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857)

www.marinespecies.org

Second of all, you shouldn’t always trust seller/import IDs as they get things wrong all the time. Third of all, bowerbankis have larger (max 20mm) and more irregular corallites while acans have smaller (max 10mm) and more circular corallites, like your coral.

 

[c_healy]

Here’s a few of mine.

 

[fishgirljockey]

First of all, there is no such thing as a bowerbanki acan or a bowerbanki Favia. Bowerbanki is a species of coral from the genus Homophyllia.

WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Homophyllia bowerbanki (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857)

www.marinespecies.org

Second of all, you shouldn’t always trust seller/import IDs as they get things wrong all the time. Third of all, bowerbankis have larger (max 20mm) and more irregular corallites while acans have smaller (max 10mm) and more circular corallites, like your coral.

reading it all! Thank u! So do they still require the same care?

 

[encrustingacro]

reading it all! Thank u! So do they still require the same care?

I honestly don’t know, but I would think they require similar care to most other lobophylliids: low - medium flow, low - medium light, and feeding.

 

[Jillianh]

wowwwww. How long have you had it? It def looks like a favia to me

I’ve had it for a couple of years. One similar looking coral that I purchased the same day now has ~6 polyps; weird.

 

[fishgirljockey]

I’ve had it for a couple of years. One similar looking coral that I purchased the same day now has ~6 polyps; weird.

lol it makes sense tho. I was actually watching a video today about how favias can either grow extremely fast (being one of the fastest growing corals) or they can be the slowest growing coral. Funny!

 

[fishgirljockey]

I honestly don’t know, but I would think they require similar care to most other lobophylliids: low - medium flow, low - medium light, and feeding.

So then the correct way to call these would be homophyllias?

 

[encrustingacro]

So then the correct way to call these would be homophyllias?

You could call them that, but it would be ambiguous as to whether you are referring to bowerbankis or scolys (Homophyllia australis). Calling them bowerbankis is still correct and eliminates that ambiguity.

 

[Roatan Reef]

Little frag I picked up from my LFS ...with about 5 heads for $40.

2 months later 7 heads.

 

[Tcook]

Dragon soul

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

None of these corals are true Favias, as the genus Favia contains only Atlantic/Caribbean species. All Indo-Pacific Favias have been moved to other genera, such as Dipsastraea, Favites, Astraeosmilia, and Goniastrea. There are also other corals that may be misidentified as Favia, including Favites, Astrea, Coelastrea, and Goniastrea.

I was holding my breath waiting for this post

 

[Waters]

Wowww. Really nice!! How long have you been growing it?

I have actually only had this one for a couple of months.

 

[Aqua Man]

Started as 3 polyps a few years ago

 

[Tcook]

I was holding my breath waiting for this post

We all go by common names in the hobby like euphyllia and acan lords. It’s good that the new taxonomy is pointed out. Eventually it will stick