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[Cdavis66]

Hey all.
I have this random thing growing on the side of my scoly. No idea what it is.

Please help!

 

[VinnyBoy]

Looks like alveopora to me. If it is, it shouldn’t bother him.

 

[Vinaka_vakalevu]

Hard to tell but it looks like it is an alveopora coral growing on the skeleton

 

[encrustingacro]

Could also be Pocillopora; looks a little off for Alveopora.

 

[Cdavis66]

Could also be Pocillopora; looks a little off for Alveopora.

Looks closer to an alveopora since the heads are seperate but that is the closest I’ve see to what i have. I just have no idea where it came from since I’ve have the scoly for 6 months and that just showed up maybe a week or 2 ago

 

[encrustingacro]

Looks closer to an alveopora since the heads are seperate but that is the closest I’ve see to what i have. I just have no idea where it came from since I’ve have the scoly for 6 months and that just showed up maybe a week or 2 ago

Some Pocilloporids (mainly Seriatopora and Stylophora, but also captive Pocillopora) can also get elongated polyps. The small polyps, prominent acrospheres tentacles being in two cycles also throws me off, too; the Alveopora found in the hobby don't usually have those characteristics. The fact that the coral seems to be spontaneously growing on the frag plug also supports that it is a Pocilloporid; it likely got there by polyp bailout, which I haven't heard of Alveopora being capable of. That is not to say that it isn't Alveopora, though; I'm just considering some sort of Pocilloporid as another possibility.

 

[Cdavis66]

Some Pocilloporids (mainly Seriatopora and Stylophora, but also captive Pocillopora) can also get elongated polyps. The small polyps, prominent acrospheres tentacles being in two cycles also throws me off, too; the Alveopora found in the hobby don't usually have those characteristics. The fact that the coral seems to be spontaneously growing on the frag plug also supports that it is a Pocilloporid; it likely got there by polyp bailout, which I haven't heard of Alveopora being capable of. That is not to say that it isn't Alveopora, though; I'm just considering some sort of Pocilloporid as another possibility.

Interesting. I did have a frogspawn bail out around the time but it doesn't really look like one to me.