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lockus
01/14/2009, 06:02 PM
Who has some pics of Australian LPS "ultra" corals in their natural setting?

Acans, Scolly's, Micro's, etc........

Patwa
01/15/2009, 01:58 AM
here's an acan (imo!)...from the barrier reef, 30 miles off the Coast of Cairns.....either a bowerbanki or hillae...can't tell ;)

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj179/patwa4/Great%20Barrier%20Reef%202008/IMG_0214Large.jpg

sorry...the only colourful corals I saw were the SPS....LPS were drab at best......you need to head to more temperate areas of the barrier reef to sneak a peak at the crazy rainbow acans....Keppel Bay would be a good place to start...it's part of the GBR, but has the distinction of being a near-shore reef (most of the GBR is off-shore)...it's was at the southern end of the GBR.

Zach