calling all Echinophyllia owners, I need pics!!

aaronlovesshel said:
Wow,

These are all absolutely beautiful, thankyou everybody for sharing.

64 IVY that is gorgeous, I must know where you picked that up (looks like a fairly young frag to me)

Aaron

Got it in trade several months ago from another board member here. Unfortunately, I've been sworn to not give up the person's name under penalty of constant yelling, collect :)
 
Justin74 said:
Thats the current issue standing as far as that goes, not a punk at all unless you CANT prove its an SPS ;)QUOTE]
I can prove it is in the Family of Pectiniidae and not Acroporidae. ;)
 
Are we posting echinophyllias or echinoporas, cause I see both?

Anyhooo, picked this up a month ago. Waiting for it to grow up into a big sweeper tentacle stinging adult:

DSCN0018.jpg
 
No need SeanT, I already knew that as well. But thats not what you nor I were talking about. If it bugs you as much as your starting to bug me, just walk away SeanT. I appreciate new ideas and my ego is not on the line here and welcomely am open for facts, as I am here to learn just as much as the next reefer. Im not here to debate,or argue with some one who doesnt have a credible leg to stand on other than there own antagonistical outbursts.

If you want to help, then help!Otherwise, youve said your peice(s).If this is an issue we have great mods here at RC and I dont question there judgment and intervention/placement of threads therein.

Sorry to everyone else, And DO GREATLY appreciate those that have contributed minus one cynic.
-Justin
 
The 'credible' leg is that there is an entire forum that was created for LPS...which these corals are.
 
Justin74 said:
If it bugs you as much as your starting to bug me, just walk away.

Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, pot. ;)

Boy, this one went South fast, didn't it?
Who's up for a Bike Ride?

- Mac
 
64Ivy said:
Got it in trade several months ago from another board member here. Unfortunately, I've been sworn to not give up the person's name under penalty of constant yelling, collect :)

And now that I've actually looked at what I've posted, I see that, of course, it is NOT an Enchinophyllia. I sent the wrong file. So before this thread gets any weirder, I'll send this, which I'm pretty sure IS an Echinophyllia. Sorry for the mix-up.

Echinophyllia-5-05.jpg
 
Those are some of the works that I cited as a reference, hence my current state of affairs,but thank you for trying SCARYBO. Wetwebmedia was the closest thing I could find grouping some of there article of it under LPS as similar topics, but as I tried to rule out SPS, I found the same article in that grouping in the SPS as similar topics as well. I would love to find a difinitive answer by any professional to classify it as either or,but have yet to find any :( For the sake of argument though, Ive omitted any reference to Echinophyllia being either LPS or SPS. Trust me no love lost either way, as Im not biased to one over the other.

And again sorry to all for the weirdness, your not alone(this thread is weirding me out as well). I had only but good intentions posting this thread for my research as well as an opportunity for someone to get their prized coral published on paper.

-Justin
 
:thumbsup:

Looks like you shrunk you and your camera down and jumped in the tank for some pictures! Awsome closeups organism. Although, Im running out of time. Ive sent pm's to those that I wish use, due to my time constraints I can only wait for there reply till this evening and if none have responded Ill need to pic some more. Which wont be hard as I said before theres not a bad pic in this thread! All look like professional photography to me, each and everyone!

-Justin
 
Echinophyllia corals are members of the Pectinidae Family, all of which are LPS corals. All the members of this Family can produce large sweeper tentacles.

A top down shot of 4 different Echinophyllia sp.
Echinos05.jpg


Closeup of red Echinophyllia
Echinos05A.jpg


Green Echinophyllia sp.
May_2003_Green_echino.jpg


I would guess these are all Echinophyllia aspera, but I think breaking it down that far would be a stretch.


I've taken probably 1000 or more photos of these corals in the 5 years I've been keeping them. If I had more time I'm sure I could produce a number of nice pictures, growth sequences, and fragging technique pics.
 
Echinoporas are members of the Faviidae Family, all of which are also LPS corals.

If your looking for pictures of these, I also have a few.
March05Echinoporas.jpg



March05BlueEchinopora.jpg

March05PurpleEchinopora.jpg


Both of these corals are most likely Echinopora lamellosa.

Here they are just as frags a couple years ago.
EchinoporasAug03.jpg
 
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