Any idea what this is?

[sbash]

Hey folks!

Yet another LPS ID... This one is a peculiar one to me... I saw it in a discount pile, it looked like a birdsnest skeleton with a few zoa polyps on it. One of the polyps caught my eye, so I scooped the piece up.

Upon closer inspection, it does indeed have a few zoa polyps on it, but the one that caught my eye is not a zoanthid. It looks like it is actually growing from the skeleton:

Any ideas? You can see the size compared to the zoa in the background (slightly smaller), the skeleton looks like an old birdsnest and this appears to be growing from the skeleton (could be fused/encrusted, no way to tell)...

TIA!!!

 

[samnaz]

duncan maybe?

 

[cloak]

I think it might be a baby Fungia.

 

[sbash]

duncan maybe?

Thanks for the response, the tentacles don't match any of the small duncans I have. There is a distinct ring of tentacles around the mouth, as well as a couple other rows of tentacles. It's hard to see them all in the picture...

I think it might be a baby Fugia.

Oh yeah, neat, I didn't know that was a thing... It does look like a baby plate, and it was sitting near a foot long plate coral (it wasn't round, it was boomerang shaped, lol)... Thanks!

 

[sbash]

Well, three months later:

No a great photo, but it is definitely a plate coral (as far as I can tell, lol). It is about the size of a loonie now; decent growth for just a couple months!

 

[DSC reef]

Very nice! That's gonna grow into a beauty