OUsnakebyte August 10, 2009 Share August 10, 2009 (edited) What are your thoughts on what this species of coral is? Cheers Mike Edited August 10, 2009 by OUsnakebyte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDiver August 10, 2009 Share August 10, 2009 My guess would be either an alveopora or goniopora.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDiver August 10, 2009 Share August 10, 2009 (edited) DP Edited August 10, 2009 by DDiver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan August 11, 2009 Share August 11, 2009 (edited) Very pretty. Looks like Goniopora/Flowerpot coral. Green is supposed to be the most difficult to keep.I think Alveopora has thicker tentacles. What are your thoughts on what this species of coral is? Cheers Mike Edited August 11, 2009 by Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zygote2k August 11, 2009 Share August 11, 2009 Doesn't Goniopora have 12 tentacles and Alveopora has 16? something like that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NemesisElite August 11, 2009 Share August 11, 2009 thought it was goniopora has 24 and alveopora has 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctenophore August 11, 2009 Share August 11, 2009 Where was that taken? Aren't you supposed to be collecting coral gametes right now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhcorals August 11, 2009 Share August 11, 2009 (edited) Doesn't Goniopora have 12 tentacles and Alveopora has 16? something like that... Alveopora has 12 Goniopora has 24 tentacles. Edited August 11, 2009 by lhcorals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OUsnakebyte August 13, 2009 Author Share August 13, 2009 Where was that taken? Aren't you supposed to be collecting coral gametes right now? Ahhh.... good question. I am in Puerto Rico right now. I was out tagging palmata colonies when I took that pic - right off the reef crest about 25-30 feet down. Of course it immediately caught my eye - thinking that it looked eerily similar to goniopora. I went back in to show Eric, and he also thought that did not belong there. So, we went back out to find it, disturbed it, and found it was this: Not goniopora, but porites. And it makes sense b/c, as Eric pointed out, they are in the same family. However, neither of us had ever seen porites with its polyps extended out that far. But, where that colony was there was a bunch of particulate matter in the water, and it must have been loving all the feeding going on. Very interesting. Cheers Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davelin315 August 13, 2009 Share August 13, 2009 Hey Mike, I had a porites colony that extended its polyps about 1-1.5cm when it was out in the middle of the day. That sure did look like alveopora, although after you saying what it was, I'm assuming that the scale is not what it appears to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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