SPS?? Soft Corals??

[Koddie Doo]

what are these exactly? SPS soft corals....

Solomon Salmon Digitata Coral (Montipora digitata)

Green Apple Cap Coral (Montipora capricornis)

Canary Porites Coral (Porites cylindrica)

and does anyone know of a site i can go to to see actual pics of adult corals, i look at smith and foster and thy show frags, but not what they turn into!!

[Fly Guy]

im nto sure i understand what you are asking

sps are not "soft" corals. SPS(small polyps stony) corals are hard corals. Soft corals are things like mushrooms(corallimorphs), and leathers(sarcophyton) to name a couple

All of the corals you refer to there are hard corals, and dont look much different when they get bigger than frags......just bigger and more branches.

[chris&barb]

soft corals are corals without a calcium carbonate skeleton. the corals you listed are SPS( people debate the term SPS,dont worry about it ) SPS corals are hard(with a hard skeleton)

heres the first you listed http://images.google.com/images?svnu...gitata&spell=1

#2
http://images.google.com/images?svnu...is&btnG=Search

#3
http://images.google.com/images?svnu...tes+cylindrica

[Koddie Doo]

so i was under the ass-umption they were soft corals or SPS but in accuality they are hard?

Correct?

[chris&barb]

the term "soft corals" refers to corals that are soft. think xenia, leather ect.. SPS stands for "small poylped stoney" or "small poylped Scleractinians" the corals you listed are sps=hard

[Koddie Doo]

thanks was wondering that!!

[chris&barb]

your welcome

Originally Posted by Koddie Doo

thanks was wondering that!!