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Len

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Can someone list off the genus of corals commonly named chalices? I know echinophyllia, oxypora, mycedium .... what else? And which ones are the ones with the nasty sweeper tentacles?
 
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Can't answer the first part (the chalice craze is news to me), but echinophyllia is definitely a producer of sweeper tentacles. The one I kept threw out ones 10" or so long on rare occasions.
 

FragMaster

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Pagoda cup coral : Velvet chalice
Pectinia lactuca
Oxypora Saville
Oxypora lacera
Oxypora glabra
Mycedium steenei
Mycedium elephantotus
Echinophyllia costata
Echinophyllia aspera
Echinophyllia echinata
Echinopora Mammiformis : Branching Chalice
Echinopora lamellosa
 

Len

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Anyone know what genus the famous "watermelon chalice" is? It produces no sweepers but it also doesn't resemble oxypora, mycedium, or echinopora to me either (well, maybe echinopora).
 

Len

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BTW charles, I know exactly what you're feeling. I started my new aquarium and was surprised by the LPS craze.
 

FragMaster

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To me it looks like Echinophyllia aspera.
But a search came up with Mycedium elephantotus, and a vauge Mycedium sp. and Echinophyllia sp. ?
 

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