My New Scolymia Tank

[HKSTurbo28]

that is AWESOME!

I am a Scolymia collector myself, I have 8 of them and all are currently on the bottom of my tank, lit by dual 150W 20K double ended metal halides.

I love them but it's really really hard to find the nice red colored ones and they are expensive. So if you find a nice colored one, it's well worth it as they're getting harder and harder to come by and they don't reproduce in the tank and cannot be fragged.

 

[Grunt]

Nice tanks and corals!
Cheers

 

[ReefingIt]

Saw some nice Scolys at Atlantis and Phishybusiness......

 

[Dani Arnanz]

Great tank and corals... but not Scolymias, they are usually wrong ID as Scolymia, but I think they´re Acanthophyllia maccarasensis.

Cheers

 

[Deepsea2005]

Dani Arnanz,

Thanks, do you have any documents about Acanthophyllia maccarasensis?
Could you post them so I can learn more?

 

[Dani Arnanz]

Ooops, sorry, I was working on an article about the genus Cynarina, and I say it wrong

The correct name is Acanthophyllia deshayesiana; maccarasensis is a species from the Indophyllia genus.

Unfortunatly in the hobby (specially un USA, in Europe this corals are banned) use to name as scolymia all Acanthphyllia deshayesiana.

Here you have REAL scolymia (identified by Sprung, Veron, Borneman, Hoeksema...):

I´ll go on in the next post

 

[Dani Arnanz]

And here some Acanthophyllia deshayesiana, ID by Julian Sprung:

Maybe reading this article could be interesting for you... after tell me what do you think.

Cheers,

Dani

 

[Deepsea2005]

Thanks Dani for your information.