Can anyone ID this coral

[Paul W.]

 

[fishguy242]

hi acan,favia leaning to acan nice color

 

[fishguy242]

would suggest lower light for now

 

[Paul W.]

We are in a debate with the LFS guy on what type this is. He swears it’s a Fabian, but the store we bought it from was saying is was a Goni. Who is right, or are both of them wrong? Thanks.

 

[fishguy242]

poss goni, that pic leaning acan how long have you had it

 

[SeaDweller]

nice color? looks pretty bad in that pic, maybe just a bad pic?

 

[Paul W.]

would suggest lower light for now

Our LFS is babysitting for now as our parameters were not correct according to them. The are helping us get things right before we put it back in our tank. We are new to all this so is there something special about this coral? They got excited when we brought it in.

 

[Paul W.]

nice color? looks pretty bad in that pic, maybe just a bad pic?

That’s part of it but we had issues with some of our levels in the tank as well. It’s being babysat at the store until things are right.

 

[fishguy242]

nice hot color

 

[Paul W.]

poss goni, that pic leaning acan how long have you had it

About a month ago. When we bought it the young lady was not feeling well and couldn’t remember the name but she kept saying some thing that sounded like an STD.

 

[fishguy242]

lol

 

[Paul W.]

We got it because it was so striking. It is our favorite so far.

 

[Garia666]

Looks like a micro mussa to me. Just with retracted polyps.

 

[scchase]

Unless that frag plug is absolutely huge, it is not an Acan/Micromussa/Favia corralites are way to small. It is either a very unhappy Goniopora or small chance Porites either way based on what I can see it is something in the family of Poritidae. Small possibility of Alveopora as well which was moved to Acroporidae last year. Either way it is not very happy.

 

[Highgrade]

My money is on Goniopora.

 

[Paul W.]

normal sized plug 1 1/2 or so. It looks a lot better since it was moved to the store. I’ll have my wife get a better pic and post on Tuesday.

 

[fishguy242]

leaning that way more after the std comment LOL

 

[Paul W.]

leaning that way more after the std comment LOL

I don’t make it up.....

 

[Highgrade]

I don’t make it up.....

Gonorrhea coral. LOL

 

[fishguy242]

we're doing all this joking lol,is funny, but truly hope coral makes a good come back,it is beautiful in color,little rough around the edges