"Meat Coral"??????

[glenn10]

I saw a beautiful coral which I was told is a "Meat Coral". It is pinkish red with long flowing branches. Does anyone know the scientific name so I can add it to my aquarium?

 

[Anonymous]

Glenn - the who corals I see most often offered as 'meat' corals are lobophyllia and cyanaria. Do a google image search on those but they are not branching as far as I know.

 

[Len]

Meat coral is usually used to describe Lobophyllias. The "flowing branches" description also kinda throws me for a loop though. Perhaps it was misnamed at the store?

Does it resemble anything like this?

 

[fungia]

could it be a torch coral? euphyllia (?)

 

[glenn10]

Unfortunately, that is not what I saw, they also gave me the name of candy coral.. Does that have flowing branches????

Thank you


Glenn

 

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, that is not what I saw, they also gave me the name of candy coral.. Does that have flowing branches????

Thank you


Glenn

candy coral would be caulastrea - very hardy and easy to keep IME , does well in moderate light. Again though since many retailers and wholesalers don't use latin names it's hard to say 100%. Caulastrea is not branching per se but does have a columnar aggregation type of growth - I guess some specimens can branch too but I don't see them as often.

 

[glenn10]

I looked up caulastrea in My corals of the World by JEN Veron and unfortunately it was a no go. I guess that her names were all wrong. I went thru 1500 pages in the three volumes and could not find anything close. Can you think of anything Pinkish that looks like it has a leather base and fairly long flowing branches ??

 

[glenn10]

P.S. Branches were 6-12 inches in length.