Show me your wellsophyllia....

[krajacich]

I'll start. I just got my first wellsophyllia:

Close-up

 

[kraftyforu]

 

[DonavonsReef]

:beachbum:

 

[jman77]

Don u mail order the jap, or are lfs stocking them ?

 

[DonavonsReef]

That came from a friend in Cali. He purchased it from a LFS.

 

[DEEC77]

Sweet!! Donavon

~Dee~

 

[jman77]

you and your dam cali connections... lol

 

[DonavonsReef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8426484#post8426484 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jman77
you and your dam cali connections... lol

 

[xcreonx]

Nice!

 

[Al G Blenny]

Last time I posted this someone got mad at me and said that I was being rude. I just want to say ahead of time I am not being rude. I am just trying to clear things up. So here I go.

There is no such thing as Welso. It is a Trach. Welso is an old name that scientists got rid of a long time ago.

 

[xcreonx]

i was gonna mention that too, so thanks for taking the hit

 

[Justin74]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8439886#post8439886 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by xcreonx
i was gonna mention that too, so thanks for taking the hit

Ditto! D:

-Justin

 

[krajacich]

I didn't know about the name change until after I posted. I started looking for more info and realized that'd reclassified it....pretty common in science. I bought the coral online and they marketed it as a wellso, I assumed they knew what they were talking about.

But you'll notice people still knew what I was talking about

 

[Al G Blenny]

Yeah I wish the vendors would stop calling them that. It used to be reserved for the more folded versions of Trachs. They thought that was what the difference was. Now they just use it to sell more corals. People think they are getting something special when they are only getting a more mature Trach.

 

[DonavonsReef]

Thats it???? No one else has Trachs?? Lets see some pics people!!

 

[chrisdaphish]

no one can follow up that super pretty rainbow one=P

 

[krajacich]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8448998#post8448998 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chrisdaphish
no one can follow up that super pretty rainbow one=P

No kidding! Beautiful trach Donavonsreef

 

[oddballs]

but i think there are 2 species of trachys now ?the regular one is trachyphillia geoffroyi and the one thats always called a wellso is trachyphyllia radiata i could be wrong but i beleive that there are a couple of growth form variations that seperate the 2 apart.i know when i order a wellso and a trachy off my wholesale sheets that there is a obvious diferance beetween the 2 corals besides one of them being bigger than the other imo?not being a know it all just stating what i thaught is or was the case.

 

[Al G Blenny]

I think that even the two trach species were lumped into just the one Trach. geoffroyi. There used to be two species (radiata and geoffroyi) but they are so similar. I think the claim was that geo. was free licing where radi. was attached to rocks by the base.

 

[krajacich]

From what I've read, that's the main question right now. Some claim there's only one species, while others say it's two different species. It seems that most are leaning towards only one species.