Help identify this coral plz

[sal0806]

Plz help trying to identify this coral

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Plz help trying to identify this coral

Either a monti or porites (someone will be able to confirm it better than I can haha)

 

[Alexraptor]

Hard to tell from that distance, but it does look like Porites.

 

[Cell]

Looks like leptastrea to me.

 

[encrustingacro]

Porites

 

[JustAnotherNanoTank]

I’m on the porites train.

How cool would it be if a Xmas tree worm popped out of it!

Cool coral.

From what I remember they’re a lowish light coral. Meaning bottom placement is better to start with.

O_O but its skeletal structure also looks like a closed up leptastrea like another person mentioned.

Post another pic when it acclimates. Leptastrea extends polyps. Porites kind of always looks like that.

 

[MoshJosh]

retracted stylocoeniella maybe. . . but other guesses are good as well.

 

[encrustingacro]

Sylocoeniella doesnt have this polygonal corallites and Leptastrea has larger corallites.
Lighting for Porites can range from high to low light, as they can be found from intertidal habitats to deep walls.

 

[sal0806]

I’m new to the hobby, soon i will acquire something to take better pictures. Thank you all for your help, has definitely helped in my research. It does extend small/short polyp like things from all those pores

 

[sal0806]

 

[JustAnotherNanoTank]

Oh dang!

Seems happy there.

 

[sal0806]

I’m on the porites train also, but hope to see how it does in my tank. So far so good, if anyone has any of those worms available plz lmk I’d like to add one in the future.

 

[sal0806]

Oh dang!

Seems happy there.

Yea i think the move to low light was the right move for this one, might look for a flat rock just for this guy to lay on the tank floor.

 

[JustAnotherNanoTank]

I’m on the porites train also, but hope to see how it does in my tank. So far so good, if anyone has any of those worms available plz lmk I’d like to add one in the future.

I don’t rightly know if you can add them or if you have to get one that has them already.

I guess I need to research that lol

 

[encrustingacro]

From what I know, you can't just add Spirobranchus worms onto a coral and have it grow with it; it sorta just has to come with the coral.

 

[sal0806]

From what I know, you can't just add Spirobranchus worms onto a coral and have it grow with it; it sorta just has to come with the coral.

It says they embed in the coral and my coral is pretty small so maybe i can introduce it, but definitely going to do my research on that

 

[encrustingacro]

It says they embed in the coral and my coral is pretty small so maybe i can introduce it, but definitely going to do my research on that

I actually don't know how they start out, but they don't, like, burrow into the coral. As the coral grows outward radially, the worms build their tubes to keep up with the coral. However, in captivity, corals that usually have massive or sub-massive growth forms will only encrust, not growing out radially. This leads the worms' tubes to grow out past the surface of the corallum, giving the colony a weird "urchin-like" look.