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by **liquid** » June 14th, 2004, 9:32 pm

In this month's Advanced Aquarist's Online Magazine, we have a mystery coral seeking identification. Can you guess what it is?

Please refer to this article in this month's Advanced Aquarist: http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/ ... eptune.htm Good luck!!!

by **leftovers** » June 15th, 2004, 9:58 am

peanut turd sponge

by **DanConnor** » June 15th, 2004, 10:32 am

Wow, that's cool. I have no idea what it is....

by **LordNikon** » June 15th, 2004, 7:13 pm

I have no idea..a plate of some sort or tubinaria? i wonder if John Brandt would know?

by **liquid** » June 15th, 2004, 9:27 pm

Heh when Terry gave me this photo to use for the magazine, I was stumped too! I'm as curious as the rest of you what this is.

Shane

by **DaisyPolyp** » June 16th, 2004, 12:40 am

I'm going to say some meber of the family Zoanthidae, probably Zoanthus, but having a bleached or paled coenenchyme.

(I say this only because I couldn't find a Pachyclavularia without a redish-purple mat)

by **John_Brandt** » June 16th, 2004, 1:33 am

Okay, I'm gonna put $50 on Oxypora.

And try out my Lucky Bigfoot...

by **DaisyPolyp** » June 16th, 2004, 1:04 pm

you're thinking like Oxypora Lacera?

by **DanConnor** » June 16th, 2004, 1:28 pm

I'll guess Echinophyllia

by **DaisyPolyp** » June 16th, 2004, 3:37 pm

so when are they gonna let us know?

by **liquid** » June 16th, 2004, 3:41 pm

LOL, the magazine's only been out 48 hrs!

Shane

by **AF Founder** » June 16th, 2004, 3:41 pm

DaisyPolyp wrote:so when are they gonna let us know?

No one yet, but I will tell you that it's a stoney coral, and was grown from a small fragment.

by **DaisyPolyp** » June 16th, 2004, 4:18 pm

No one yet, but I will tell you that it's a stoney coral, and was grown from a small fragment.

curses! ...i guess it's back to the drawing board :cry:

by **LordNikon** » June 16th, 2004, 7:27 pm

so that rules out zoos then :wink:

by **hillbilly** » June 16th, 2004, 10:43 pm

" The rare FUBAR species"?

by **John_Brandt** » June 17th, 2004, 8:17 pm

Stupid Bigfoot lost my $50.

This time I'm going with Montipora and a UFO.

by **GSchiemer** » June 17th, 2004, 9:36 pm

Symphyllia or Lobphyllia? Scolymia?

by **LordNikon** » June 17th, 2004, 11:33 pm

Gonistrea?

by **AF Founder** » June 17th, 2004, 11:46 pm

GSchiemer wrote:Symphyllia or Lobphyllia? Scolymia?

It definitely belongs to the Mussidae family, and is probably, as you suspected, Symphyllia agaricia. I'm waiting on the final word from its owner Morgan Litster of Inland Aquatics. Its blown up appearance is a response to relatively low light conditions. It has expanded to maximize its surface area to collect as many photons as possible..

by **DaisyPolyp** » June 18th, 2004, 1:38 am

wow, you guessed Symphyllia agaricia from that picture?

you got skills.

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