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franck91
09/03/2008, 03:43 PM
Hello,

I've bought this LPS today as a Favite. are you ok with this identification ? if Yes, with Favite could it be?

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/182715favia-sp1.jpg

Thanks in advance.
Reefer07
09/03/2008, 09:20 PM
I am not positive but it sort of looks like a micromussa to me.
Justin74
09/07/2008, 11:41 AM
acan echinata :) This morph has been around for awhile but kinda hard to find untill recently more have been popping up lately it seems.

-Justin
franck91
09/11/2008, 01:17 AM
Thanks.

I've paid 50 euros for 50 polyps, i'm happy.
what are the best care for it (light, eating, flow ...)?
Guygettnby
09/11/2008, 10:36 AM
i also would like to know for sure what this is and how to care for it. i have the same thing and they sold it to me as an ausse brain coral.

sorry for the hijak..... but we need answers! lol..

thanks all
Justin74
09/12/2008, 12:58 AM
He was correct, generally speaking. "pineapple" or "brain" coral is a blanket ID for about half the LPS out there :)
Placement should be dictated by ones individual light set up and determining what he or she thinks is intense lighting. Generally speaking with MH and T5 they should be kept lower half of the tank. I keep mine on the sand. Moderate to low flow, a very hearty eater of meaty foods and one of the more aggressive species of LPS stretching it's mesentary filliments up to 3+ inches in any given direction it sees fit at that time and with a heavy death kill ratio ;)

-Justin
Guygettnby
09/12/2008, 10:40 AM
so this needs low flow....hmm. i have alot of flow in this tank. lol..

this is in a 24g AP with 70W 14K MH sunpod. i have it placed in the substrate kinda off to the side of the MH light.
Guygettnby
09/23/2008, 05:23 PM
here is a picture of mine. it looks like the same thing but alittle more colorful. is this the same thing?

this coral has never extended any tenticals either. so maybe im doing something wrong....or is it just not hungry beacuse it is getting enough light?


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