Coral ID

[MR BACKHAND]

Bought a piece of live rock and see these 3 on what was a coral frag plug.
Any idea what it could be?

Thanks

 

[Saltyreef]

Majano

 

[Saltyreef]

Now that im looking at it more, it looks like leftovers of a dying tubastrea or some sort of stoney coral with polyps like that. Notice the empty holes around it....

 

[bday1335]

I agree with @Saltyreef something is trying to grow back! Could be a Leptastrea, Cyphastrea or something as well

 

[Saltyreef]

I agree with @Saltyreef something is trying to grow back! Could be a Lepastrea, Cyphastrea or something as well

Yes! Leptastrea thats the one i was thinking of!

 

[MR BACKHAND]

Hoping it will look like this one day. Transferred rock into display tank last week and under the radions I found 7 more but they are the size of a pen head.

 

[MR BACKHAND]

Here is a current picture. There are about 14 heads so far.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

I was gonna say yellow polyps or mojano but your new last pic makes me agree..something stony based coming back
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[Alexopora]

Here is a current picture. There are about 14 heads so far.

Judging for this picture alone, I’m going to agree with Leptastrea. They can take medium to high flow. I have kept them next to acros and they did grow well. However, since its taking up a precious spot that should be for sps, I downgraded it to the sand bed which it is also doing well. So in my experience, they are quite hardy.