Favia Show Off Thread

[geris]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11231766#post11231766 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sheol
Man those are nice, Geris! Really Nice!
But I'd move the one next to that Gonipora before WWIII ensues ( if its not already too late..)
Too bad about the middle one. Never seen a piebald morph before, really unique looking.
BTW, do you have any full tank shots? I'd love to see them.

Matthew

Thanks Matthew!
I moved the favia a few months ago, because yep the goni started to bother it! Now its doing fine. Yeah the one in the middle was really special, but it was in another tank that I tore down
Well, this is kind of a thread jackin' , so im sorry, but here's the full tank shot (this is about a month ago, there have been minor changes):

 

[wishntoboutside]

woow, i go away from a couple days and the eye candy multiplys.

eric the reefer. where did you get that piece. i recently got a peice very close like it that was transhiped from flores. my peice was big but hmm broken. you may have the other half=).

great pictures everyone.

 

[Sheol]

Great Tank Geris, wish I had the room LOL.
I don't think the piebald Favia was a compound colony, rather just looks like there was gene drift in some of the dividing polyps. I don't know if different colonies would tolerate each other Al G Blenny ( neat handle BTW.)
That purple Favia in the pic above it was also a real keeper! Why can't I find some of these when I'm browsing a store! (Sigh)
*****
Keep 'em coming!

Matthew

 

[nUgZ]

Sheol- I can assure you that none of the pics I posted are Caulastrea. I assume you are referring to the second pic posted?? Here's a pic of two of those from when I first got them.

 

[Sheol]

It was the green one in the 3d pic. I have something a lot like it, but it looks even more like a Caulastrea. ( its white & tan though with the "peppermint" stripes. Its not an Acan. I'm begining to think it IS a Favia. But its definetly "in-between" in looks. Yours reminds me of it..

Matthew

 

[Sheol]

It may just be the extent of the polyp extension that reminds me of this. The second pic looks SLIGHTLY like an Acanthastrea ( I know its not). Its certainly just as colorful!

Very nice trio!
Matthew

 

[Al G Blenny]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11235201#post11235201 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sheol
I don't think the piebald Favia was a compound colony, rather just looks like there was gene drift in some of the dividing polyps. I don't know if different colonies would tolerate each other Al G Blenny ( neat handle BTW.)

Look at how the red and light green section seems to have polyps reaching over the darker green section. Then look at the brown section at the very bottom. It looks like it is trying to grow over the green section to the left. I still think they are different colonies that just happened to meet at "four corners". I don't know what a "gene drift" is. I don't know if that is possible in four different sections of the same colony. Corals grow together all the time. Just because they are killing each other off that easily doesn't mean they aren't fighting. If they can tolerate the others toxins they will just be fighting for surface space and light.

 

[SteveOhh]

W/ Flash...........................

Under Radiums...............

Was sold to me as an acan, but I doubted it from the get-go...............

 

[Sheol]

You could be right, Al. But also look how the color varies over the whole thing. I just think it doesn't know what it wants to look like!
^^^
Steve,
Yep, that is some Acan alright. I hope you didn't pay Acan lord prices for it. Its a beautiful green & blue Favia ( which you obviously deduced for yourself!).
On the other hand, I'd keep browsing that store. You might buy some nice "Favia" that is something rare. The seller obviously did not know his corals!

Matthew

 

[silas k]

What do you feed your favias ? i have had one for almost a year and it doesnt seem like its growing.

 

[SteveOhh]

New frag I picked up today...

 

[Sheol]

Steve.

From the same place as before? LOL.
That is a great frag, looks almost like a group of Scolymia.
Any more?

Matthew

 

[SteveOhh]

No this isn't the dragon's soul....................it's a piece I picked up from Vivid a few days ago....................

http://www.vividaquariums.com/10Expand.asp?ProductCode=05-5171

 

[wishntoboutside]

steve oh
nice to see you finaly post some pictures=).

well i got a new lense and reread my camera instructions over a good cup of starbucks and came up with these pictures today.

my heart and soul favia. dedicate this one to the x gf.

starburst favia. from flores. this should have a more greener tone to it but it is close.

here is an aussie moon coral.. what the hec is a moon coral? i call it brown wonder. it took 4 months for it to color up like this.

bluesky's overhead. geting more and more color

 

[wishntoboutside]

here is one i need to move to take a better picutures of. green with some purple and others still needs some time

here is one of miguels from fraggle reefs le. got this one from tyree in a trade. worm hole brain.

 

[snipersps]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11251996#post11251996 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by wishntoboutside
here is one i need to move to take a better picutures of. green with some purple and others still needs some time

Hey Richard I want a piece

 

[Al G Blenny]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11246446#post11246446 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sheol
You could be right, Al. But also look how the color varies over the whole thing. I just think it doesn't know what it wants to look like!

Yeah but it only varies in two sections and those aren't even touching each other. The green and red one up top is the most variable and again it is overtaking the one below it. The brown one has a slight hint of two tones and that one is also overtaking the single colored one that is above and to the left of it. Even if it wasn't obvious that they are fighting for space it doesn't seem possible for one colonial coral to have two sections that are bi-color and marbled with different colors and then two other single color sections that are also different. Those are a lot of variables to make this a single colony. I think they would have to be living in some radioactive sludge to develop that much variability. Of course there is always room for me to be wrong but I really don't think I am this time.

 

[wishntoboutside]

hugo, not a problem i still need to give you a call.

 

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[sps_addict]

Very nice richard.