New Additions, help me id please

[ccampo]

I got the following from someone who was quiting the hobbie due to moving to another place, can you please help me identify them :

#1

#2

Same one without flash:

This is the host of the pair of clowns in the back


#3

#4

#5

 

[GMAX]

I and 2 are leather corals
3 is likely xenia
4 is likely a favia ( brain )
5 is zooanthids

 

[Azazael13]

if #4 is a Favia, which it looks like, you will want to take it off the sand, they aren't a fan.

 

[atzak]

1 cabbage leather
2 green sinular
3 maybe pavona
4 favia
5 zoanthids

 

[2fishy]

#3 does look like are larger version of the small pavona I have also!

 

[AquaReeferMan]

1. Cabbage Leather
2. Green Sinularia or Green Finger Leather
3. Pavona
4. Favia
5. Some nice Zoanthids.

 

[ccampo]

After some research and your help of course, this is what I think they are :

#1 Cabbage Leather Coral
The Cabbage Leather Coral is also referred to as Flat Leather Coral, Flower Leather Coral, or Carpet Coral.

#2 Sinularia, Green Finger Coral
http://www.reefcorner.com/SpecimenSheets/green_sinularia.htm

#3 Pavona Coral : It's a small polyp stony (SPS) coral, and is referred to as the Cactus, Potato Chip, or Lettuce Coral.
Its common name "cactus," comes from its appearance which resembles that of a cactus.

#4 Brain Coral, Favites
The Favites Corals are large polyp stony (LPS) corals often referred to as Moon, Pineapple, Brain, Closed Brain, Star, Worm, or Honeycomb Coral.

#5 Zoanthids with green tips


Thanks to all for your help identifying them, It will also help me take good care of them.

 

[ccampo]

One more thing, if you can identify any of them and it is not what I just described above, please let me know too.

 

[GMAX]

I would say you have a Favia not a Favites, but they are similar. Favites has the characteristic of sharing corralite walls, while Favia has individual walls for each corralite. Picture could be deceiving of course.

 

[TheMcs]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11997863#post11997863 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ccampo
After some research and your help of course, this is what I think they are :

#1 Cabbage Leather Coral
The Cabbage Leather Coral is also referred to as Flat Leather Coral, Flower Leather Coral, or Carpet Coral.

#2 Sinularia, Green Finger Coral
http://www.reefcorner.com/SpecimenSheets/green_sinularia.htm

#3 Pavona Coral : It's a small polyp stony (SPS) coral, and is referred to as the Cactus, Potato Chip, or Lettuce Coral.
Its common name "cactus," comes from its appearance which resembles that of a cactus.

#4 Brain Coral, Favites
The Favites Corals are large polyp stony (LPS) corals often referred to as Moon, Pineapple, Brain, Closed Brain, Star, Worm, or Honeycomb Coral.

#5 Zoanthids with green tips


Thanks to all for your help identifying them, It will also help me take good care of them.

You've got it, just some tips;
2- Great "earner". You can easily take clippings of this, rubberband it to some rubble, and have a good trading or selling frag. LFSs here give $15-25 credit for 1-4" pieces.

3-Will plate out like a monti, but grows faster if it can encrust. Will overgrow most soft corals.

4-Nice catch on the favites as opposed to the suggested favias. Safer yet to just call it a faviid. Take a look in Veron's "Corals of the World" and you'll realize IDing those are extremely difficult.
Very slow growers, but you can help that by placing it in a depression in rock. If it can encrust surrounding rock, it will grow exponentially faster than if it has to build up that massive stony base. Also, they have no problem with the sand, that's where I kept many for years. Like anything else though, if some of it gets buried, that part will die.

 

[Azazael13]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11997954#post11997954 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TheMcs

4-Very slow growers, but you can help that by placing it in a depression in rock. If it can encrust surrounding rock, it will grow exponentially faster than if it has to build up that massive stony base. Also, they have no problem with the sand, that's where I kept many for years. Like anything else though, if some of it gets buried, that part will die.

You kinda said it yourself there, if you put it on the sand it won't have the opportunity to grow as if you had it on some rocks. There is also a greater risk of something flinging sand up onto it, which as you said will kill it.

 

[ccampo]

Thanks a lot "TheMcs".
Great book that one, with good reviews as well.
I'll get one for me to keep it handy.

 

[Reefing102]

I agree with what was said above, and nice corals