How to tell the difference between- blasto, acan, micro

[delta410]

How do you tell the difference between blasto's, acans, and micro's?

pictures showing the difference would help a lot.

 

[joe18]

Blasto are frilly and fluffier and more pooofy.
micromussa have the same lookin polyps as acan lord, just smaller.
acan lord polyps are roundish and again ..bigger than micromussa polyps.
but micro and acan polyps are seperate and not as fluffy ad poofy as blasto polyps.

acan lord have seperate polyps
acan echinata have connected polyps with no space between them
acan bowerbanki, gorw in a wierd A$$ way and are all connected...unlike acan lord.
acan maxima have huge polyps...like lord but much bigger and are distinctlly seperate.
acan rotondoflora are kinda like acan echinata in terms of the connected polyps.
acan hillae are also onected polyps


hmmmm anything else....

joe

 

[delta410]

how do you tell the difference from favia and micro?

 

[shinny]

Joe, Thanks, that is very informative. Long live Bob Marley.

 

[joe18]

favia llok completley diffrent than micromussa.
micromussa is individual polyps. and favia are all conected.

shinny.
no prob, at least someone apreciates it. ^^
i love marley!!!

 

[stevedola]

Pic to ID differences

Pic to ID differences

Favia

Acan Lord

Acan Enchinata

Blasto Welsi

Blasto Merletti

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[stevedola]

Micro pic

Micro pic

MICROMUSSA

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[shinny]

favia and acan enchinata look pretty similar to me. Would a difference be that the favia have destinct "lines" (is there a name for those) coming from the center of the polyps?

 

[GMAX]

<i>how do you tell the difference from favia and micro?</I>

The price at the retailer is usually the first indication!

 

[stevedola]

Shinny,
The acan enchinata has a larger coralite structure and is more 'Fleshy'.
Here is a link to a aussie data base that has detailed ID of each of the corals you are interested in. Book mark this (its a nice resource): http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/coralid_search.php