Is this a Porites?

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Picked up this frag for $10 from my local shop. Not sure what morph matches well with this coral. The tentacles don't have a punchy color, its brown, red, gold, a mix if the colors, but the tiny centers of the polyps have bright green. Either way I feel this is a solid grab, can't wait to see its growth a year from now.

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I think it is a stylo, here is a care guide.

 
does not look like Porites to me. Coralites are too far apart and they generally will look more like a monti.
some porites, such as p. densa, can have corallites spaced far apart. Encrusting montipora will generally have tuberculae on their coenosteum.
 

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