Coral ID for a newbie

sarahjo · 10/04/2013, 04:15 PM

Hi there my husband and I are some what new to the hobby. A little about our tank :
65 gal reef glass tank
30 gal fuge with protein skimmer, heater and sump
50 lbs LR with coral rubble substrate
Lighting is 6 T5 3 white 1 actinic and 2 cool blues.
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This one fell into the rubble and got the white spots on him. He is mid level in our tank
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This guy too is mid level and in brighter light and seems to be doing well
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He is about a 3rd of the way up from the bottom in moderate lighting. Seems to like it thereuploadfromtaptalk1380924883985.jpg
He is mid level moderate lighting and seems to be growing bigger
We inherited the tank from his mother who started it in 2003 and had it up and running well until the summer of 2012 when she didn't have the time to care for it properly anymore. She shut EVERYTHING down until the middle of January 2013 when she gave us the tank. We moved it to our home right next door. We kept probably 1/3 of her water all of her rock and substrate. We let the tank settle and cycle and has had consistant parameters since March when we started adding a clean ip crew and some fish
This is what we have in there right now :
Blue Hippo Tang
Royal Gramma
Blue spotted Goby
Lubbocks Wrasse
2Percula Clowns
20 or so hermit crabs and snails
Sand sifting Sea Star
Sea Star
Emerald Crab
And some corals

This is where we could use some help. There are a couple corals we got from LFS that we didn't know what they were. Any help in identifying them would be awesome!!

Reefmedic79 · 10/05/2013, 02:04 PM

first look like it could be Lepatastrea (sp?), the others all look like favia?

10/04/2013, 04:15 PM	#1
sarahjo Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 11	Coral ID for a newbie Hi there my husband and I are some what new to the hobby. A little about our tank : 65 gal reef glass tank 30 gal fuge with protein skimmer, heater and sump 50 lbs LR with coral rubble substrate Lighting is 6 T5 3 white 1 actinic and 2 cool blues. uploadfromtaptalk1380924689054.jpg This one fell into the rubble and got the white spots on him. He is mid level in our tank uploadfromtaptalk1380924760007.jpg This guy too is mid level and in brighter light and seems to be doing well uploadfromtaptalk1380924815154.jpg He is about a 3rd of the way up from the bottom in moderate lighting. Seems to like it thereuploadfromtaptalk1380924883985.jpg He is mid level moderate lighting and seems to be growing bigger We inherited the tank from his mother who started it in 2003 and had it up and running well until the summer of 2012 when she didn't have the time to care for it properly anymore. She shut EVERYTHING down until the middle of January 2013 when she gave us the tank. We moved it to our home right next door. We kept probably 1/3 of her water all of her rock and substrate. We let the tank settle and cycle and has had consistant parameters since March when we started adding a clean ip crew and some fish This is what we have in there right now : Blue Hippo Tang Royal Gramma Blue spotted Goby Lubbocks Wrasse 2Percula Clowns 20 or so hermit crabs and snails Sand sifting Sea Star Sea Star Emerald Crab And some corals This is where we could use some help. There are a couple corals we got from LFS that we didn't know what they were. Any help in identifying them would be awesome!!

10/05/2013, 02:04 PM	#2
Reefmedic79 Life and Reef Saver Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Tavares, Florida Posts: 6,202	first look like it could be Lepatastrea (sp?), the others all look like favia? __________________ ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><((((º>¸. ·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·.. ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><((((º> How much deeper would the ocean be if it didn't have sponges? P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way Sid Current Tank Info: 40 Breeder, 20L Sump, 10G Fuge, JBJ A.T.O, 4" Reef Octopus, DIY Stand & Canopy, RapidLED Dimmable 36 Kit on 3 6" MakersLED Heatsink, MP10es