Efflo advice please
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NegroModelo
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Nice I love when someone pulls the real scientific data
Big E
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Yeah it's tough to tell, even with the dead skeleton...........a soli that is getting hammered straight on will have coralites compacted tightly together.
I've always called mine a soli because it will aways want to branch out. It would never grow in a disc type shape regadless of flow. It also tends to want to create adjacent plates.
To make matters more confusing, I've also thought I may have an A. stoddarti which is a closer species relation to a Soli in Verons book.
All the same coral--
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I've always called mine a soli because it will aways want to branch out. It would never grow in a disc type shape regadless of flow. It also tends to want to create adjacent plates.
To make matters more confusing, I've also thought I may have an A. stoddarti which is a closer species relation to a Soli in Verons book.
All the same coral--
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Moser
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Agree. It seems pot luck from those pictures unless they are mis-labelled in any way?…
I would have switched the first two. :crazy1:
They seem pretty easy to tell when you seen them in the tank.
Mo
MammothReefer
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From what I've come to understand Branching/Not branching doesn't matter but that's what most people have been trained to look at overall coral shape for ID. Round smooth edges are typically labled as efflos while branching are labled as solis.
What really matters is the shape/structure of the coralites. If you look at the skeleton pictures above you can see the efflo coralites are quite distinct from the solis. The Efflo the coralites are tubular, have sharp edges, and pull away from the mass ie they are free standing (except where they fuse with other coralites) while the solis coralites are rounder, have smooth edges, and tend grow as lumps (ie attached to the mass on one side except for new terminal polyps).
With that in mind I would learn towards Big E's acro being a Effo.
What really matters is the shape/structure of the coralites. If you look at the skeleton pictures above you can see the efflo coralites are quite distinct from the solis. The Efflo the coralites are tubular, have sharp edges, and pull away from the mass ie they are free standing (except where they fuse with other coralites) while the solis coralites are rounder, have smooth edges, and tend grow as lumps (ie attached to the mass on one side except for new terminal polyps).
With that in mind I would learn towards Big E's acro being a Effo.
turbo21
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big E
i need a piece of that soli at the next swap
sweet looking
bob
i need a piece of that soli at the next swap
sweet looking
bob
Yeah it's tough to tell, even with the dead skeleton...........a soli that is getting hammered straight on will have coralites compacted tightly together.
I've always called mine a soli because it will aways want to branch out. It would never grow in a disc type shape regadless of flow. It also tends to want to create adjacent plates.
To make matters more confusing, I've also thought I may have an A. stoddarti which is a closer species relation to a Soli in Verons book.
All the same coral--
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turbo21
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rogerwilco357
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Big E Call it what ever you want personally I call that colony beautiful awesome piece and growth keep up the good work.
Roger
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