Favia or a trachophylia?

[mr. bojangsjang]

What is the difference between Favia brains and trachophylia brains?

 

[IslandCrow]

Trachyphyllia are often times called "open brains" because they basically look like one big blob. Some are pretty uniformly shaped while others fold into ridges and valleys. Favia, on the other hand, look quite a bit different. You'll see a series of cells packed very closely together. Favites, which are very similar to Favia actually share walls between cells. I don't have any individual picutes of mine, but here's a picture of my whole tank. The green blob looking thing directly above the clownfish is a Trachyphillia. The brown and green coral on the far right is actually a Favites, but Favia look very similar.

 

[DrChaos619]

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