Coral ID

[Fishfreak2009]

Anyone able to ID this? Its growing on an isolated piece of rubble I got from a local reefer's tank.

 

[blaxsun]

Encrusting goniopora would be my guess (just bought one that looks exactly like that, but red). I think they're too small for zoas, but they could also be a really small polyp species.

 

[Fishfreak2009]

Encrusting goniopora would be my guess (just bought one that looks exactly like that, but red). I think they're too small for zoas, but they could also be a really small polyp species.

Seems way to small for a Goniopora. The sand in there is fiji pink. So very small polyps. I was leaning towards Stylocoeniella cocosensis or S. armatus, but wasn't sure

 

[blaxsun]

Seems way to small for a Goniopora. The sand in there is fiji pink. So very small polyps. I was leaning towards Stylocoeniella cocosensis or S. armatus, but wasn't sure

That's what I though about the encrusting goniopora I picked up on the weekend. Never seen anything like it, but it's definitely a goniopora - just with super small polyps. When it's out it's like red velvet across the rock. What's in my tank isn't a stylocoeniella, either.

LIghts are out but I can post an image tomorrow.

 

[Fishfreak2009]

That's what I though about the encrusting goniopora I picked up on the weekend. Never seen anything like it, but it's definitely a goniopora - just with super small polyps. When it's out it's like red velvet across the rock. What's in my tank isn't a stylocoeniella, either.

LIghts are out but I can post an image tomorrow.

Aren't the encrusting gonis technically Bernardpora spp?

 

[blaxsun]

Aren't the encrusting gonis technically Bernardpora spp?

I guess they are technically, although the polyps on mine are really teeny. Like smaller than anything I found online. It looks like red moss covering the rock.

 

[Fishfreak2009]

I guess they are technically, although the polyps on mine are really teeny. Like smaller than anything I found online. It looks like red moss covering the rock.

Like this?

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

That's what I though about the encrusting goniopora I picked up on the weekend. Never seen anything like it, but it's definitely a goniopora - just with super small polyps. When it's out it's like red velvet across the rock. What's in my tank isn't a stylocoeniella, either.

LIghts are out but I can post an image tomorrow.

That sounds cool

 

[blaxsun]

Like this?

I have a burning banana for comparison and it's similar to the other coral but also different. I'll try to post an image once the lights are up and it's had a chance to come out (parrotfish knocked it off the rocks earlier so it was less than impressed).

 

[blaxsun]

Here's an image I took today. I don't have a macro lens so I wasn't able to get it entirely in focus. The colors are pretty spot-on, though.

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

Here's an image I took today. I don't have a macro lens so I wasn't able to get it entirely in focus. The colors are pretty spot-on, though.

photography magic, nice :/

 

[blaxsun]

photography magic, nice :/

All I adjusted was the white level to 15k to account for the blue.

 

[blaxsun]

I just snapped this evening shot with my iPhone 8. In the center you can see a handful of polyps that have decided to stretch out. First time I've seen a handful do this.