Coral Identity Help!

[Dycofree]

Hey guys! I’m at my LFS and came across a piece of soft coral (I believe) that seems to have something else growing with it. I was told its probably a leather coral (the green branch part) but they werent able to tell me what the black brain coral looking thing was! Im just curious and want to know! Here are some pics! (If you could ID the green branch as well thatd be great!)

 

[DeniseAndy]

Looks like a rough green sinularia. Give it time and it will grow to have tan polyps and treelike structure. Very pretty in my opinion. I miss mine as I lost it recently. It was huge.

 

[Dycofree]

Looks like a rough green sinularia. Give it time and it will grow to have tan polyps and treelike structure. Very pretty in my opinion. I miss mine as I lost it recently. It was huge.

Any idea about the black thing on the bottom right?

 

[DeniseAndy]

Nope. Need to know a bit more about it with maybe clearer pictures. Hard to tell. sorry. Is it soft or hard, has it grown,does it inflate or have tentacles?

 

[Dycofree]

Nope. Need to know a bit more about it with maybe clearer pictures. Hard to tell. sorry. Is it soft or hard, has it grown,does it inflate or have tentacles?

When I touched it on accident when adding it had a much softer feel to it than the rock its on did. The guy mentioned that it could be a brain coral, and when I typed in Black Brain Coral it looked like it could possibly be the beginning of one, just not sure as I am new to all of this.

 

[DeniseAndy]

Hard to say. Brain coral is just like saying spider. It really could be so many different creatures. Cool though. Keep eye on it and how it grows and whether you see feeders or puffy areas. This will help. However, as the sinularia grows, they tend to shed and send out toxins that will bother some lps corals, so watch for that.

 

[DSC reef]

The black portion on the rock could possibly be tunicates.