Nick,
Now that you read the whole thread you should have fresh in your mind the progression of this thread. Outside of the "ugly" parts that occured, the thread can be broken into two parts.
Part I of thread:
- First, there was the search for a frag or colony that was a direct descendent from the original colony that Leng Sy had.
Part II of thread:
- Since Steve Tyree could not find proof that any of the frags coming from the original Leng Sy colony (See above) have survived, the focus then became to find a coral that matches all of the characteristics that have been observed of the Leng Sy coral.
In conclusion, I don't see where it was stated that Leng Sy had the only coral that possed those charactersistics. I don't belive anyone out there believes that there aren't exact duplicates of this coral out there. But there are many corals that resemble it but yet have a characteristic that differentiates them as well. I have two other morphs that at first glance look very much like it but when you look at them closely they are different than my Leng Sy like coral. For example, one of them is a perfect match on everything else except the polyps are not white. If I painted white dots all over it, it would be difficult to tell them apart.
Hope this kind of puts it in a nutshell.
Rafael