A nice coral for ID

[DeepBlue]

Is it a

Oxypora lacera?

Echinophyllia aspera?

Echinopora lamellosa?

or a Echinophyllia echinoporides??

A positive ID in need.

[bubble_gum]

i have just one like it and i think its definately an echinophillya...either aspera or lamellosa

in the ultimate marine aquarium book, its identified as echinophillya aspera and looks exactly the same

there is another book but i can remember which one it is but its identified as acan echinata

the polyps are to big to be an oxypora IMO

well im no lps king but this is just my 2 cents can tottally ignore what i think if u think otherwise

[DeepBlue]

thanks bro. The help I needed ....

kind of fragile....seems to break off at the edge quite easily....do you have that problem....maybe I am just too rough

[Creetin]

erm... its looks abit like acans...to me...haha..

[YzF]

Can break easily means can frag a piece for me!!

[Jun Hong]

Since this portion is already broken, might as well frag it to me

[DeepBlue]

just checked out at RC....seems like pretty confirm BG is right.

its a echinophyllia

[wa_lanz]

but looks like this lehz.. acans rotundoflora..

http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/...20pages/384.htm

[bubble_gum]

thanks bro. The help I needed ....

kind of fragile....seems to break off at the edge quite easily....do you have that problem....maybe I am just too rough

i broke mine too but i wouldnt worry as they are super duper hardy....

the part that broke was still partly attached then it fused back together in 3 weeks

hmm echinophillyas are encrusting so it u intend to frag them later on leave them on the sand....beware of their sweeping tenticles super long

prefers high flow area and moderate lights

comes in exotic colour forms like pink and purple but im looking for a green one and they are so easy to keep and frag

i dun think acan rotundoflora has extremely long sweeping tentecles like this.

if u compare rotundofloras skeleton with echinos, u can tell that echinos really have fragile ones and usually has parts growing that are not attached to the rock

walanz.... u have a rotundoflora

[wa_lanz]

the pic not mine... taken from the web de.. but looks exactly de same except color diff..

[DeepBlue]

the more I read it up in RC...I think it is a Echinophyllia

check this out (esp. when U want to frag your piece )

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.p...t=echinophyllia

Another:

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.p...t=echinophyllia

[wa_lanz]

still think they look like rotundoflora more.... notice that the polyps are more protruding? echinophyllia looks like the watermelon coral BG has...

[DeepBlue]

Hmmm....somehow some of the pics in the second link seems identical to the piece

[bubble_gum]

im preety sure its an echino it has a really fragile and thin skeleton and each polyp is not so close and regular like a rotundoflora.... meat also nt that smooth

[bubble_gum]

hw bout this guys? another enchinophillya or something similar

these lps are really fragile and i broke a piece of the edge already