ID help!

[manhorsedog]

I have no clue what species this is it is not fully opened and colors are not as bright as in person but pretty close

thanks for looking

 

[paveking1]

I believe that is a scolymia coral , I have 2 that are bright orange & purple , Keep it low not alot of light or under a ledge with low flow if they have too much flow they wont open all the way.

 

[kizkiz]

lobophyllia imo

 

[manhorsedog]

the reason i am asking is i am taking everything but my zoas out of the tank and trading or selling it. I just dont have an idea on what its worth, also its really hard to find a picture that looks just like it. I do think however it might be lobophyllia still unsure.

thanks for the help

 

[manhorsedog]

ps sorry for not posting in id forum i didnt see it : (

 

[paveking1]

Depends on how colorful the piece is , Ive seen them online from $50 to $300 . Like i said depends on color .

 

[zeppelin]

Lobophyllia.

 

[Tyler.L]

im actually gonna say symphallia acutally look at them its pretty much identical

 

[zeppelin]

symphyllia doesn't usually have one centralized mouth like the above pic. symphyllia is more a maze of mouths and interconnected polyps like this

Some lobophyllia can look similar to the symphyllia above, but the polyps are usually totally seperate from one another, in a cluster.

 

[ghostman]

Lobo IMO

 

[Tyler.L]

everything i have seen even from dr f&s its symphyllia valenciennesii search for it...thats exactly what you have.

 

[zeppelin]

Here's the skeletal structure of symphyllia valenciennesii from whelks. Notice there are no spines on the coral edges as seen in his original photo (bottom right of coral)

...and here is a pic of a healthy symphyllia valenciennesii from whelks. Notice the multiple mouths and structure. Nothing like the lobo pictured at the top of the thread.

Here is a link to the whelks page the information was taken from.
http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/301-400/Species pages/349.htm

This is a good identification tool also:
http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/coralid_search.php

 

[Tyler.L]

well then, i guess i'll stop with that...just everywhere i see pics of them and its symphalia i guess everywhere is wrong but then again there is alot of miss i.d'ing but dr f&s are pretty good but whatever thanks for that zeppelin

 

[lhoy]

To ID similar corals you need to generally look at the skeletal structure. Just because a picture looks similar doesn't really mean much with corals.

Lee

 

[keckles]

I would say Lobophyllia sp.

But, it is a young specimen.