Coral ID?

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I found this piece at goodwill. No idea what kind of coral this is. Someone glued dead butterflies to it and placed it in an acrylic display box. Any info is appreciated. Thank you.
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I found this piece at goodwill. No idea what kind of coral this is. Someone glued dead butterflies to it and placed it in an acrylic display box. Any info is appreciated. Thank you.
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Looks like plastic. Welcome to R2R by the way!
 
It's not smoot at all, almost like an extremely fine grit sandpaper. And it was not in water when I bought it. Definitely not alive.
 
It's not smoot at all, almost like an extremely fine grit sandpaper. And it was not in water when I bought it. Definitely not alive.
Huh. Not an Acro then. I at least know that much. I still suspect it is plastic. Dead coral is white in my experience.
 
It appears to have had other organisms growing on it at one point. And a sea shell looks like it was absorbed into the coral? It's weird but fascinating. By far my best goodwill find in years!

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It appears to have had other organisms growing on it at one point. And a sea shell looks like it was absorbed into the coral? It's weird but fascinating. By far my best goodwill find in years!

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It’s a cool find, I just don’t think it is a real coral. It was probably in somebody’s tank and that is why there are the tubes and barnacle-ish things.
 

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