Today's Favorate Coral

[High tide]

Originally Posted by Lance

I believe that coral is Monastrea, very nice!

Is it? That's the third different ID I've had on this coral.[/quote]

It very well could be Cyphastrea as well, which I'm leaning towards right now...hard to ID from a photo though. It's not Pavona though, Pavona is is velvety and not very distinct polyps.

[Ephraim]

it is pavona. it's a green pavona maldivensis, which are more commonly orange.

[High tide]

Originally Posted by Ephraim

it is pavona. it's a green pavona maldivensis, which are more commonly orange.

I had time to reference some photos this morning and I think your right. It just shows that you cannot categorize based on the common species of a genus!....now how can I get a piece!?

[Ephraim]

it's not too hard to find, it comes in time to time with aquaculture shipments. And it usually gets passed over by most people. The orange morph is really striking, lights up like a christmas tree under actinics.

[High tide]

Yeah, the orange morph does look sweet as well, thanks!

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Ephraim

it is pavona. it's a green pavona maldivensis, which are more commonly orange.

Oh yeah, Ephraim. I remember when I bought it at Red Coral and you said that you had been looking at it. Did you ever find another one?

[Ephraim]

i haven't seen one since then unfortunately. One of these days i'll snap one up.