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asoygeboy
08/16/2010, 09:12 AM
Hey Everyone,

any idea what corals are these?


thanks

Damasta5
08/16/2010, 09:19 AM
1st one almost looks like a scolymia not sure but the the 2nd one is definetly a lobo coral.

TwistedEnvy
08/16/2010, 10:24 AM
Hmm i wouldnt say scoly for the first picture, Do you have another picture of it? I agree the second is lobo

asoygeboy
08/18/2010, 09:51 AM
thx for the info guys,
here's another pic, its a bit one sided due to angle difficulty
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/7780/id3g.jpg (http://img132.imageshack.us/i/id3g.jpg/)

btw any luck identifying another species
here's the pic, its a bit blurry
it looks like trachy but it doesn't has that 'lobed' feautre
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/8300/id4k.jpg (http://img824.imageshack.us/i/id4k.jpg/)
any help is appreciated, thanks

SantaCruzReefer
08/18/2010, 11:39 AM
Yeah the orange and blue one is a lobo and the green one I'd say is one of those very common green scolymias. Usually called button corals when they look like that. And the last mystery coral does look a lot like a trachy.

TwistedEnvy
08/19/2010, 10:52 AM
I don't think so still, it doesnt have a distinctive circle around the mouth:

http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Yz8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=button+coral&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=i2BtTPucD5HungfBxsHhCA&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=7&ved=0CDgQrQQwBg

those are some common pics of scoly's and cynarias...maybe another kind of common coral I haven't seen though. It has too many striations on the flesh as well.

+1 on the last being a trach :)