True Efflatournaria appears in the Diver’s Den, looks more like Xenia than Cespitularia

By on Dec 15, 2011

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Finally, true Efflatournariahas appeared in the aquarium trade, as a maricultured coral in the Diver’s Den no less. Efflatournaria is a genus of soft corals whose name has been misapplied to various corals in the trade in recent years. Xenia, Hetroxenia and Cespitularia have all been misidentified as Efflatournaria at one point or another but these new colonies of ‘Effla’ actually look like the pictures in books and Aldersladum, the newly described genus of soft coral. Now that we have real good card-carrying Efflatournaria available in the trade and we can see how different it looks from all the other Xeniids it’s time to see what this lobe-branched daisy-polyped soft coral can do in an aquarium. The delicate purpley-blue coloration and white centered octocoral polyps looks like it could make for great aquascaping material.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/pbareiss Patrick Bareiss

    Looks pretty cool.  But its hard to tell what color it really is with so much actinic lighting going on.

  • Anonymous

    So that’s what it is! I have 3 small colonies that grew out of my liverock one fine day and i have no idea what it was.

  • http://twitter.com/clownfishman Hubert CLOWNFISHMAN

    if they don’t pulse, they are not lovable .. now do they? 

  • Anonymous

    the sand looks pretty white to me…

  • Anonymous

    the sand looks pretty white to me…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=120807273 Chris Chambers

    I had this stuff.  It was blue.  It grows like a weed, even as xenia’s go.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=120807273 Chris Chambers

    I had this stuff.  It was blue.  It grows like a weed, even as xenia’s go.

  • Anonymous

    I think you are mistaking the Efflatournaria for the little blue polyps that have been ubiquitous in the hobby for the last two years and you’re right, that stuff is practically invasive.