a Chalice by any other name .... :)

[Len]

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?

 

[Anonymous]

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.

 

[Anonymous]

Echinopora.

 

[FragMaster]

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]

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]

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

 

[FragMaster]

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

 

[shane 1111]

the watermelon chalice can and does produce sweepers