I don't thing this is a Zoa.

b4tn · Oct 9, 2015

I got a couple frags from my LFS store today. Since I am new to corals I was going to get a couple Zoas. This looked like a Zoa with the polyps out but after dipping and adding all the polyps retracted and it doesn't look like a Zoa. Can anyone tell me what this is?

cmanning317 · Oct 9, 2015

sure if you.have a pic

FF337 · Oct 9, 2015

I don't see a picture attached. Look up aiptasia and see if that is it.

ReefMadScientist · Oct 9, 2015

From what I can see, it looks like a "White-out zoa". They usually are hard to see as they are completely white and blend into the R2R background.

b4tn · Oct 9, 2015

Image helps

when the polyps are out they look just like a Zoa. It is still ticked from the revive dip.

ReeferBee · Oct 9, 2015

that would be a goniopora

cmanning317 · Oct 9, 2015

pist off gonipora

ReefMadScientist · Oct 9, 2015

Adding a flower pot to a new system rarely works. I have a mature tank and that is one coral that STILL gives me problems.

cmanning317 · Oct 9, 2015

b4tn · Oct 9, 2015

Well that kind of ticks me off. It was on the same rack as all the palys and zoas.

cloak · Oct 9, 2015

Are you sure it's not a Leptastrea or something similar as opposed to a Goniopora? You might want to count the number of polyps just to be sure.

b4tn · Oct 9, 2015

Once it opens back up I will take another picture.

Neptunes Cove · Oct 9, 2015

yep-that's a flowerpot
keep it lower in your rockwork...

b4tn · Oct 9, 2015

Would it be better suited directly on the sand bed? The rock I have it on now I plan to make a Zoa garden.

b4tn · Oct 9, 2015

They finally started to open up. They don't have stalks like some of the Google pictures I found of flowerpot corals. The top one is fully open and extended the rest are slowly coming out. I'm having a hard time getting a pic with my iPhone. The rest of he colors are all off but the polyp color in the pic is accurate.

stravo71 · Oct 13, 2015

It's either an alveopora or a gonipora

Tahoe61 · Oct 13, 2015

Alevopora: 12 tentacles on each polyp,
Goniopora: 24 tentacles on each polyp.

stravo71 · Oct 13, 2015

Alveopora

goniopora
These are both in my tank. Alveopora is easier to keep than goniopora

b4tn · Oct 13, 2015

It's Goniopora for sure with 24 and it's an encrusting type. Here it is now that it fully opens. I fed it some reef roids the other day and it ate it up fast.